[Dialogue] [Oe List ...] rampant socialism

[David Walters]

After suffering thru eight longs years of a government that wqas an end unto itself, i find all this sudden rash of anti governmentalism rashter disconcerting. Last summewwr marked the 39th aanniversery of my lasnding at Ohare at 2 am and being driven to a stange place on the westside of Chicago. My life was altered foreever. I became a change agent. I spent a week with James Wiegel transforming an old gym into a great hall for the summer program. One of the great learning of that week was there is not such thing as "we can't" and "we can with what we have. 

I celebrated the election Baracxk Obama as an agent of change - the kind of change that is based on a comprehensive, intentional, futuric world view or least something close to it. 

I mean no disrespect for Susan, but there those in our country who have fallen prey to a well funded effort to generate fear in our popluation with inflamatory words - like socialism. 

The political calculus of the Bush years was formulated by a guy named Karl Rove. It seems that he married a girl that I grew up with named Darby Hickson. When we entered high school in the fall of '63. Frank Powell, who most of you knew, was SGA President. The VP was a guy named Don Siegelman. these guys and threst of the SGA had the difficult job of holding together a ,000 member studewnt body in tehe face of being the school to intergrate in Alabama. Don went on to bcome Secretary of State, Attorney General, Lt. Governor and finally Governor of Alabma in '98. Enter Karl Rove who managed to have someone alter the voting computer in one large county and stole his bid for election. If that wqas enough he had one of his cronies wife appointed US attorney. She proceeded to prosecute him on bogus charges. I don't believe in coincidences. Karl is married a classmate of a political enemy who just happen to go to jail. 

My point in telling story is that there are far more inmportant issues in our national life that some ungrounded fear of creeping socialism. The way in which our political life is order is in absolute shambles. It seems that all the descions belong to the corporations.      
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