The end of the beginning?

Hopefully it is closer to the beginning of the end?

Both questions are about America and the 2008 elections. Remember, these elections and questions are local, state, and federal.

Runs on our society and culture are about over. Really good ideas and ideals have been tried, and failed, or at best were disappointing in their results. Most have been domestic, some have been foreign. And we Americans have been most accommodating in going along with all this, so far. Keep in mind what is happening today is not normal, as in it has not always been this way. Today, we have even tolerated that many questions about character and policy are to be off limits in presidential debates, questions which are about our future, and our courses of action in the most basic national interest ideas, like security and safety and jobs for our families.

Let us be practical just on this last note. Criminals need to be locked up to protect us from them. We can try solve societies problems on a separate track. No more phone calls about home invasions and what to do when in fear of losing life and mothers protecting kids should ever be tolerated by taxpayers. If we need to hire more police, and build more prisons, so be it. The dictator of North Korea who used nepotism to inherit his job, needs to be held accountable to his nuclear agreements so as to keep us and our families alive and protected from his wacko behavior, and that of his 20 associated family criminal cohorts, to include his counterfeiting operations. And the rise of the regional power Iran threatens us by both their intents and our national performance that has encouraged their leaders over decades. For both the idealists and ignorant, ignore all this at your own peril. Japan was a similar regional power before WWII, and we know so many Americans died as a result. And talk about solving society’s domestic problems, public education must return to the 3R’s and parental control, as a start point. How radical can it be to suggest education as the best way out of poverty and a way to hope for our American way to deliver for those that work. And diplomats and elected politicians must actually enforce by word and deed all the global and free trade agreements we enter. The academic argument is fine, and certainly many Americans benefit, for how about all Americans benefiting. That is a big rub!

The implications of American change in 2008 are simple; some people need to get fired or voted out. If the two national political parties can’t change, which seems to be the case, then we voters will find Americans who can change things for our national interests, local, state, and federal. So there is nothing personal pointed towards the two national parties. They had their chances, and now it seems their chances were American votes about them, and not “we the people”. And State Department, stand by for change, also. How funny it seems when simple political theory and idealism can be so American practical in the year 2008.