canpaign

Why has no one ever campaigned on the grounds of a canpaign? I know it's corny, but it's exactly the message that the Democratic party needs to use to get out their message. Face it, Republican governance is creating a hypercapitalist oligarchic theocracy where our freedom becomes more and more limited with each passing day. We have the freedom to live in an ownership society where big business owns the poor, and the last time I checked that's the only real freedom Bush has been advocating in his policies and speeches. Otherwise he talks about spreading freedom around the world, but nothing on the domestic front.

Kos posted a few days ago that the Democratic party should try to sum up its positions and values with the phrase:

Democrats are the party for people who work for a living

It's not a bad idea, but I think the Democrats need to frame themselves as the party who really wants freedom, not just using it as a Macchiavellian tool to exploit cynical ends. Therefore, under Democratic governance, you CAN

have health insurance
have insurance for your later years (SS)
have freedom over your body
live in an environmentally healthy society
live in a society that is free from fear
afford to send your children to school
afford to not live your life in debt
make it in life by working hard

Under the GOP you CAN'T do a single one of these things. Let's take them to task because the Dems are the party of CAN and the Repubs are the party of CAN'T. Let's start canpaigning.