A rose is a rose by any other name...or is it?

I was trying to post the comment below to this story, however, for some reason it just wasn’t going through, I am still trying though. Anyway some thoughts for now.

http://www.salon.com/2015/05/14/utter_insanity_and_stupidity_ex_reagan_adviser_unloads_on_gop_lobbyists_and_the_myth_of_the_moderate_republican/

Conservative, moderate, liberal, extremism, etc.. I think we have come to the point that are all political labels don’t line up very well anymore. If we want a moderate, what does that mean? Who are conservatives? Liberals?

To me liberal thinking in the 1700’s should now be conservative thinking in the 2000’s, and some “extremists” so called “conservatives” espouse this, but their actions are totally contrary to their words. Liberals are using big government to accomplish their agenda, but big government in the 1700’s was not liberal. Very simplistic, but I have to start somewhere and so in my opinion we are all struggling with our political identity.

We should work to decide what are the best policies for the country and let the current labels fall to the wayside. Some people have some good thoughts below, but they are all framed with the current verbiage. I think by changing the actions the verbiage that best describes who you might be, will evolve.

These are just some quick thoughts on one reason why we cannot move our country forward politically right now. There is definitely much more to be examined. Right now to me the real goal is to prioritize what is most important for this country and find the best solutions. And under the current model of the two parties we have that is becoming impossible. And the discussion in this article is another pressing reason we are struggling.

I am completely amazed that the development of new parties is not moving forward. I think new major parties are needed. This article is just the tip of the iceberg of the problem and I am surprised this is being treated as new news. This has been growing exponentially since the early 2000’s. I do know new parties could fall to what is happening currently, but at the very least a shake-up of the power structure will help us evolve for potentially a couple of decades especially if the people drive the change.

For an example go back to T Roosevelt and the Progressive party of 1912 and you can see change is possible, it just takes work.