It looks like a no-go tonight

We sure do live in a different type of world than I had thought possible. I mean if you watch enough of the movies and read enough of good old American folklore you begin to think that the good guys get to win every now and then and that they even get to feel the thrill of some kind of victory for their ideas and the fact that they aren't just fighting for themselves but for all of us.
You might think that if the world was the way a filmmaker like Frank Capra envisioned it in some of his work like Meet John Doe.
Then there is the real case of Dennis Kucinich. The real case of a man who goes to the mat every single day for each and every one of us and seems not to find the kind of justice and fairness that we might love to hold onto and to believe in.
It is as if there were just the huge corporate artifice that determines and manipulates all the workings of our society. If you don't fit into it and don't even think it is such a good thing, that same corporate culture turns on you and wills you out of the public eye. It pushes you out of the whole frame so that the public has to really work hard to find out about you, the public has to go against all the dreck they are fed by that corporate media in order to stick with you.
Dennis Kucinich wrote an amazing story of his early years in Cleveland. In some ways it is much like Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes except that it feels a lot less like an angry man's recounting of his hard life and more like the kid who survived that ordeal or rather who survived those endless ordeals is here to help us. He did have that courage to do something for us and to be here every day doing for us what he found the strength to understand.
You and I can learn a lot from reading that book. While it is not a great work of literature and there are moments too when the horrors of his life seem to even overpower his prose--but the man had a vision of something outside of him.
We laugh lots of times about the nuns and how they are so mean, etc. But in Kucinich's case, they saved his life and pushed him to do what he really needed to do. Of course there was something that came into his life from his mother and as little as that might have been considering that she had 7 children, there was something of the love for Dennis that he can also count on to give back when he fights for the things that we need to have in this country:
1. Fair wages and decent working conditions
2. Universal health care
3. Free pre-K through 4 years of college for everyone
And then the other side of the coin in his understanding of the policies that need to be in place:
1. An end to the war and the return home of all troops
2. An impeachment of the president and vice president
3. An end to NAFTA and our removal from the WTO
4. An end to the Patriot Act
5.Restoration of the constitution's guarantees
6. Civil Rights for all
The list is long and the work is hard. He needs all of our help. Please do help.
Strength through Peace.