From Darkness to Light

Let me say this right up front, y'all. Thanks to Mike at Cold Fury for finding and linking to the powerful, thoughtful piece you're about to read. And that newer layout at Cold Fury not only looks great, it loads faster now, too!

I've read this through this morning, twice. When I get to work, I'm going to print it out and leave it laying on a few carefully chosen desks. Never pass up a chance to bring another soon-to-be former Donk in from the dark side.

Here now. Even though I've chosen this particual paragraph to tease the article, trust me on this....the rest is just as good, if not better.

But that was then and this is now. Now I have come to the place where the whole sorry spectacle and circus of the Democrats over the last year has finally angered me. The party whose ideals once excited me has become a parody of itself, a dangerous parody. Instead of inspriation it delivers either numbing boredom or sheer despair at its intellectual and spiritual poverty. Instead of telling us what sort of New Jerusalem it would have us build as our City on the Hill, it takes us into the slums of the soul. Instead of waving the bright banners of how, it dons the rags and bones of defeatism and appeasement. Instead of leading the parade, it wants to make us content with following after the elephants with a shovel and a wheelbarrow. When it needs to supply us with someone to believe in, to follow, to admire and to trust, it offers up John F. Kerry and his rollicking side-kick Ted Kennedy. It’s like after sitting through the long and tedious circus of the primaries, the Party went out and chose Emmett Kelly; the saddest clown of them all.

Go read the whole thing, as the saying goes.

Comments

[Gerard Van der Leun]

Hey, thanks for the link. I appreciate it.

[Anne]

Excellent link -- the sad thing is that he is absolutely right.

[Walter Wallis]

And don't forget his Band-Aid Purple Hearts.
Go to his public meetings and demand he release his medical records.Make him wish they had never attacked National Guard service.

[Denita TwoDragons]

Gerard, I know of what you speak. I'm a recent convert myself. For me, it was the casually callous way that people who I thought were 'compassionate' treated the dead of 9-11 that started me in a different direction. Now I look back and I've found that a lot of the political tenets I believed deeply in don't make any sense, or have such glaringly-obvious gaps in them that they shouldn't even exist.

It's tough to remake yourself, but you'll grow stronger.

Even if you don't suddenly decide to become a Conservative or Republican, you're certainly doing yourself a huge favor by evaluating and revising your beliefs. I wish more people would do that, but too damn many just blindly follow the party line, without question of criticism. Maybe you'll be the model that some will follow!

--TwoDragons

[loiq]

I had to take a nap before commenting on this.A long one.

Some people have a knack for bringing thier insights to fruition through art, writing and/or acting.This link was a shining example of writing at its finest.Have you ever laughed while you cried?Sometimes Trailer Park Girl riles my emotions in the same way - insight is priceless when worded artfuly(and correctly).