Why We Are Loosing, Part 2

Ok, now that you've had a taste of that piece of garbage, let me explain to you why while I agree with the idea that the war needs to be put to a stop NOW instead of three months from now, let me explain to you the part of the controversy that I vehemently disagree with.

John Murphy believes he knows what he is talking about. At sixty something years of age, he has worked with many political campaigns. I have to tell you that they all failed, since they were all third party candidates that were running. This is because, if you couldn't tell from the last blog, John Murphy hates democrat es. He despises them. He believes that in order to have a real conversation about ending the war, democrat es should not be part of the conversation. For those of you who don't know politics all that well, let me explain to you why this is wrong.

While I am very much for better election laws that include third, fourth, and even fifth party candidates, until that happens John Murphy and every other member of third parties need to realize that the Democratic party is huge. You can not take them out of the picture, because if you take them out of the picture, there really is only one group left, and that's republicans. And we wouldn't want that now would we?

While third parties such as greens, libertarians and other such parties have been growing, they are not big enough to compete with republicans on a national level. And, in order to really change the policy on the war in Iraq, someone besides the republicans needs to be in charge of national office. The voting population of the United States understands this, and that is why the democrat es won control of the house and senate in the election. But let's for a moment take politics out of this.

It is not enough to be anti-war. In order to really change things in our society, people need to become pro-peace. People need to at least begin to realize that if we are going to change anything in this country we need to work together, instead of dividing ourselves off into smaller groups. This is exactly what I believe pro-war politicians want us to do. They want us to separate so that there is not enough of one group to win any election, thus not changing a thing in our world. But like I said, we are trying to leave politics out of this.

We need to stop looking at things as political parties, and start looking at them as human beings. It is only as human beings can we begin to really shape a peaceful world. If we as the United States of America begin to rally as human beings, letting go of our political ties, other parts of the world may begin to do so as well, and we may actually begin to see a change in policies all over the world.

Coming full circle, this is why separating a group like the LCPJ, which is supposed to be above politics, would be a step in the wrong direction. Once the LCPJ becomes only those who believe they are "the only true anti-war group" another group will form. Then when someone or some parts of that group does not like something done in that group, another group will form, until pretty soon everyone is left standing by themselves not really sure how to go about letting their beliefs be heard.

This isn't a hard concept to understand. Many people, those of us who are trying to keep the LCPJ and other groups like it alive, understand that we must rise above politics and begin to talk about peace, rather then fight about war.

As John Lenin said, maybe I'm a dreamer. But I really really hope I'm not the only one. I truly believe I'm not. I'm asking everyone to join us, until finally the world can truly be as one, one people, instead of a thousand and one political parties.

I hope everyone who agrees with me reads this, understands it, and tries to make it a policy where they come from. Otherwise I guess we are all doomed, and those who are pro-war, pro-money, and pro-big business will win, and we don't' want that. Do we?