Winning is Important

By Russell Scott Day - 2004

This afternoon I have watched much of the Iowa Public Television debate between the Democratic who are running for the Democratic Nomination.

I am looking for a Democratic Platform to come out of this.

In watching the presentation I came to believe that a Dean Edwards Ticket could win against Bush, but that I would like it if they won on a Kucinich Platform.

Dean is Presidential, and Edwards is Vice Presidential. This has to do with bearing and comportment. It also has to do with practicality.

If one of these Candidates would claim the philosopher William James, my vote might shift to that candidate.

Transcendian thinking is pragmatic, as well as inspired. It is clear that winning is important, and I only voted for Nader in the last election because I wanted to be able to vote for him again.

This strategy failed.

Dean does speak clearly and shortly delineate the options. Edwards is aware of the law, and how the law affects us.
Neither or do any of these candidates put the pivotal reasons that this country is uncomfortable and unsafe to live in on the table.

This is because so many of us have never really grown up. Too many of us walk through our days depending on luck.
The Drug War is the longest running war that most of us have experienced. The way the Drug War has been conducted has fractured the Society and corrupted local state and federal enforcement agencies courts.

Day in and day out all over the world, spread from our influence and closed mindedness, the Drug War goes on. It is a war that has no intent other than to turn every adult into a child subject to insecurity in their home and on the streets.

The War on Drugs even exposes anyone who does not grow their own to hypocrisy when they might get the opportunity to buy some hashish, when hashish comes from Afghanistan.

It is obvious that those of us who are old time hippies lost, and have lost, and continue to lose because we have not stood up for our rights, which include victimless vices.

Cops on the streets know that their support for the Drug War is hypocritical as they operate. Cops on the street know that Healthcare and Education could be paid for by a tax on pot. Cops on the street know that they use the drug laws as an excuse to arrest people that they can't arrest for any other reason. Cops on the street know that their overall mission of keeping the peace is compromised when they enforce laws that they know are counterproductive. They know that bad laws make a bad society.

We live in a time when all these politicians all over the world are engaged in a war for profits on all of us who work.
The Corporations and Politicians are all in cahoots. The Politicians, and I mean all of them, will not even put on the table the longest running war, the War on Drugs, which is the pivot for the fracture or our society, and as well the pivot in that it funds international fractures because it is a source of funding for terrorists.

So it is I watched the debate, and hope for the best possible outcome as a Pragmatist. I notice no street smarts, and no vision that is fully inclusive.

It all is a television show that we pay for to make aristocrats look good.

I have said that the third rail actually is the rail that provides power. Doing the right thing is what creates power.
This war in Iraq is a short war even if it goes on for 5 years compared to the War on Drugs. Over the years the deaths and destruction of lives in the War on Drugs is much greater than that has come as the result of the attacks on the World Trade Center, or in the theater of the attack on Iraq.

I recommend an end to the War on Drugs which would produce profits that could be used for Education and the War on Terror.

I touch the third rail, but I am just the founder of Transcendia, and not a candidate for President.

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