Comments on: We Are Individuals, Not Ants

By: Eric Sundwall

Eric Sundwall — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:09:59 +0000

His excuse for real reform (ballot access, gerrymandered districts and other equally necessary electoral tweaking) will be how bad the system has become. Thus minor implementations will become great victory in the face of insurmountable protections. State union members will thus be protected from criticism and remain a valuable ally. Senate Republicans will go along to get along thus protecting their own threatened territory. Nominal growth in the rate of the budget increases will be rationalized in the forms of jobs and opportunity created by the ‘grant’ industry and such, all the while being protected by the ever present financial sectors and their inevitable growth. Pundits will caution impatient activists to be thankful he’s even their and Rudy, Hillary & George will traipse about the country convincing middle America that NY is like the rest of the US. At least BattleStar Galactica starts soon again.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:14:24 +0000

Heh, except for the fact that a “progressive vision of government” is diametrically opposed to the values of individuality, entrepreneurship, opportunity, and responsibility.

By: asdf

asdf — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:36:40 +0000

he doesn’t say to abandon your individual hopes, merely to also consider the needs of the many.

the assertion that this somehow relates to people being ants or cogs is simply ludicrous. there’s way too much extrapolation here for a minor quip made in a long speech. for example, i could pull another random sentence from his speech, like

“We must embrace a progressive vision of government once more – a vision that upholds the values of individuality and community; of entrepreneurship and opportunity; of responsibility and fairness.”

and then say that he is a crusader for individuality, but it proves little.