Mazuva maviri apfuura, pamusoro pe90% yenhengo makumi manomwe nenomwe dzeProgressive Caucus muCongress vakavhota kuti vape Bush naCheney mari yavanoda kuti vaenderere mberi nehondo muIraq neAfghanistan, uye kutanga imwe vachirwisa Iran, kudzamara vasiya chigaro mwedzi makumi maviri nemaviri. kubva zvino. Six Congressional Progressives yakaramba kuenda pamwe neizvi: Dennis Kucinich, John Lewis, Barbara Lee, Maxine Mvura, Diane Watson, uye Lynn Woolsey. Mamwe maDemocrats maviri asiri chikamu cheProgressive Caucus, Mike McNulty naMike Michaud, uye mumwe weRibertarian Republican, Ron Paul, vakavhoterawo vachipokana nazvo nekuda kwezvikonzero zvakanaka.
Sei vamwe makumi matanhatu neshanu "Progressives" vakavhotera bhiri revatungamiriri veDemocratic? Pakupedzisira, zvakasvika pachinhu chimwe chete: kuverenga kwavo kuti รขโฌลmatongerwe enyika anoshandaรขโฌ akada kuti ipfuure. Dai yakange yakundwa, saka kufunga uku kwakaenda, kwaizoonekwa sekukunda kwaBush / Cheney neRepublicans uye kukundwa kwaPelosi nevatungamiriri vavo saka, pasi pekufunga kuti chimedu kana zviviri zvechingwa zviri nani pane chinhu. , vaifambidzana kuti vawirirane, vachibatsirwa netyisidziro dzakasiyana-siyana uye fufuro.
Tichifunga kuti Bush abuda pachena kuti achavhota chero mutemo unoverenga sekunge uchamutadzisa kuita chero chaanoda kuita kana zvasvika pakumhan'arirwa kwehondo dzake dzisiri pamutemo, tarisiro yeDemocratic ndeyekuti kuita kwake munyaya iyi kuchaita. kumuchera iye nemaRepublicans zvakadzika mugomba ravo rezvematongerwo enyika. Zvino, sezvo sarudzo dzemuna 2008 dzasvika, kudzvinyirirwa kwezvematongerwo enyika kubva kuRepublicans vane hanya nekukundwa kukuru muna Mbudzi kuchaita shanduko yegwaro rehondo kana kukundwa kukuru kwesarudzo, panguva iyo maDemocrat angatarisira kuve kutonga kweWhite House uye. Congress.
Pane pfungwa kune iyi รขโฌลinoshanda zvematongerwo enyikaรขโฌ nzira yekufunga, kuti ive yakanaka. Kana iwe uchibvuma kuti US Congress hainyatso kumiririra izvo zvinoda vavhoti veUS, asi panzvimbo pezvo, inoshanda zvakanyanya pasi pemaDemocrats semhando yemagetsi bhuroka pakati pavo nekambani uye nezvimwe zvinofarirwa nevanobata zuva chairo-ku-- zuva simba, wobva watora iyi donรขโฌโขt-take-principles-too-serious approach zvine musoro.
Chokwadi ndechekuti bato reDemocratic Party harisi sangano rinofambira mberi rezvematongerwo enyika. Mubatanidzwa unoenda kubva kupro-war Blue Dogs naJoe Lieberman kurudyi kwebato kune avo vakaita seAnti-War 6 kuruboshwe. Zvave zvakadaro kwenguva yakareba.
Ndiani aive mugadziri wekuwedzera kukuru kweHondo yeVietnam muna 1965? Mutungamiri weDemocratic Alliance, Lyndon Johnson. Ndiani aiita zvese zvaaigona kudzivirira kupasiswa kwekodzero dzekuvhota uye mutemo wekodzero dzevanhu? Southern Democratic Senators saJohn Stennis naStrom Thurmond. Uye mienzaniso inogona kuenderera mberi.
Saka mukati me โzvematongerwo enyika zviripo,โ hazvishamise kuti chikamu chemaโProgressivesโ chakasarudza kumira nehutungamiriri hwavo pane kumiririra zvavanoti vanotenda mazviri, kukurumidza kubuda kwemauto eUS kubva. Iraki. Iwo muzana vakavhotera kuenderera mberi kwehondo zvinoshamisa, asi, zvakare, yaive vhoti iri padyo zvakanyanya.
Pane chimwe chikamu che "zvematongerwe enyika zviripo" - kutenda kune chikamu cheCongressional Progressives kuti sangano rinofambira mberi kazhinji harina kurongeka zvakakwana kuti varange kune chero chiyero chakakosha chezviito zvavo. Kuti ichokwadi here kana kuti kwete, zvicharamba zvichionekwa.
Iyi-mamiriro ebudiriro nekurongeka kwesangano rinofambira mberi-ndicho chatinoda kunyanya kunetseka nacho kana tisingadi kuona chekare chimwechete ichi chichienderera mberi kwemakore nemakore anouya, ani nani ari mukati. kutonga kweCongress.
Ndicho chikonzero iyo US Social Forum (http://www.ussf2007.org) kuuya mumwedzi mitatu muAtlanta kwakakosha. Vanhu venyika ino, vezvenhau vanoita zvakawanda mukugadzirisa mafungiro evanhu, uye avo vari muhurumende pamatanho ose vanozviti vane chekuita nebhizimisi revanhu vanofanira kuona kuti tiri kuzvibatanidza pamwe chete. nhamba uye nenzira yakarongeka.
Ndosaka chirongwa chakaitwa munguva pfupi yapfuura chakanangana nekukokorodza kukuru kunobatanidza anti-hondo nekufamba kwemamiriro ekunzeรขโฌโ(http://www.NoWarNoWarming.org) รขโฌโichi chiitiko chinogona kukosha.
Ndosaka vanofambira mberi vachifanira kutsvaga sarudzo dzezvematongerwo enyika kunze kwebhokisi reDemocratic Party, nei tarisiro yeGreen Party yekumirira Mutungamiriri nemumwe munhu akaita saCynthia McKinney, ane runyerekupe rwekuti ari kufunga nezvesarudzo iyi, inofanirwa kutambirwa nekuombererwa.
Muchikamu ndakanyora mazuva mashoma mushure mesarudzo dzaNovember ndakataura kuti "chakanyanya kukosha chatinofanira kuita kuramba kuti Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer naSteny Hoyer vatise ajenda uye zvatinoita. Tinofanira kunge tichida pachena kuti kururamisira, runyararo nekupona kunoda kudii, tichizvironga kuti tibudirire mukutsikirira zvichemo izvi pavakuru vakasarudzwa vemapato maviri emakambani.
Tese tinofanira kutora sirogani yakabuda mukufamba kwemamiriro ekunze kwezvichaitika munyika yose musi wa14 Kubvumbi. Tinofanira Kuisimudza! Mabatiro ekuita kudaro ari kunze uko. Ngatibate pavari. Toonana muAtlanta!
Ted Glick ari kushanda neClimate Crisis Coalition (www.climatecrisiscoalition.org) uye Independent Progressive Politics Network (www.ippn.org), uko makore ake anopfuura manomwe eFuture Hope makoramu anochengetwa. Anogona kusvikwa pa [email inodzivirirwa].
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