Relinquishing the Hill

Hillary is running. Long live her campaign.

What I look at now, after losing years of my life under the Bush administration, is the fundamental difference between the two major parties of our great nation.

The Democrats support group caring but behave individualistically.

Republicans support individual liberty but push for group conformity.

Like the man who needs to learn the skills of navigation so he takes on a career as a bus driver, each political party arrives with its natural behavior and then proclaims the opposite in order to balance its energies. If this occurrence did not happen, each party would become unstable and splinter. This internal split of stance and action creates stability.

Politically, the two parties then behave dualistically as a huge push-me-pull-you monster. And so it goes. Creation-Conservation-Creation-Conservation.

And now we are moving away from the deadening paternalism of Republicanism to the creative, generative power of the Democratic Party. I encourage the Democrats to be brave, to embrace huge change that will benefit the environment, support the broad education of the citizenry and encourage individual expression.