We need forward-looking radicals.

I like change. But I'm a little leery of change just for the sake of change. In other words, change could mean going from bad to worse. That's what I see happening on the American political scene. We're so disgusted with the state of politics that we get some dissidents to form something called the Tea Party. A so-called new brand of politic. In which America takes a sharp turn to the right. Because we think that the current Obama administration is too far to the left. When actually, it's in the middle. And we forget that Obama was elected to clean up a horrendous mess created by a far right wing government. Unfortunately, we want the clean up completed in two years, when really it'll take longer than that. After all, consider that it took 8 years for the George Bush administration to run the USA from a budget surplus to the worst deficit ever. In other words, we want a miracle. And we ain't gonna get it. We've averted a disaster. Such as a second Great Depression. Instead, we've gotten only a Great Recession. And we wanna blame that on Obama. When really the whole damn mess is the result of conservative Republican policies. But still, we're pissed that Obama didn't achieve a miracle tantamount to the parting of the Red Sea. So, we'll show him. By electing radicals that would return us to the 18th century. A time that we erroneously perceive as good times, when really it wasn't. Oh, I don't deny the need for a radical cleansing of government. But with astute politicians that will guide us into the 21st century. Not back to olden times. Yes, we need forward-looking radicals. Not backward looking ones. --Jim Broede