OntheWilderSide

A social media colleague made a comment online: “This is why we need new Dems.”

I believe that progressive democrats, independents, and anyone who wants to make the world a better place, need to go even further than finding some new Democrats.

So, here is my answer to “Do we need new Democrats?”

If there are only two parties, then it will always be a game of back and forth on the same level — with a little drag to “the right”, because controlling a system always leans to the right.

In order to “spiral it up”, in order to create an “escape valve where true breakthroughs in reform may evolve”, we need at least a third party — maybe more parties.

In many of these “reform the system” conversations, people bring up Orwell’s 1984 and the idea of the two countries/entities/parties that blame each other, and create an “either/or” for the minions at the bottom.

That dynamic of only two choices — where the other is constantly feared — is what America has.

I am happy that some Democratic activists want to make a strategic push to only support progressives. I support good Democratic candidates where I find them, especially locally, where I can know their heart.

Though, we need a real, robust way to make sure that independent candidates can run. We need for third parties to form from the grassroots, and we need those parties to be allowed to live through the slings and arrows of the Democrats and Republicans attacking them, infiltrating them, and squeezing them out with the power that the two major parties have at every Board of Elections in the country.

So, yes, I have hope for the midterms. But, it has to involve at least a few independent candidates and/or third party players who can claw their way to the table.

In addition, our whole system is predicated on violent war with other countries. And, in America, we are all brainwashed and coerced into cheering war, veterans, and the military. If we cannot break free of that trap, either, the wars will come to us. If we fight other nations with violence, threats, and bombs, we will always be subjugated by the same, and by the needs of the Department of Defense/Department of War. And, under those conditions, we will never, truly be free.

I choose to seek people, organizations, and parties who choose to struggle for a better world and who aspire to peace/nonviolence.

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Kimberly Wilder enjoys her new life as a frog. Kimberly is a poet, a mom, and an activist in a frog suit. Kimberly has been a Green Party candidate and is currently an “independent” — which in New York, means she is registered “blank/no party.”

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