By RE Vanella
I’ll be brief.
I’ve been poking around these blog parts for probably ten years. Maybe more. There’s been plenty of commentary written about The Delaware Way. It seems like we get the same retread mediocre middle management types regardless of what we do. Oligarchy light. There are enough bankers and attorneys and pharmaceutical sales people and insurance company lackeys kept satiated to make for an indifferent polity. Corporate work numbs the mind. I know first-hand.
Everyone settles in middle-class and upper middle-class enclaves and the police keep the undesirables under the boot and sequestered in the “rough neighborhoods.” (That’s why “smart police” are absorbed into the same political machine, in case you’ve ever wondered.) We send our kids to private schools or move to Chadds Ford or just create an exburb in Middletown.
This arrangement is untenable.
I’ve never made a meme, but the Tom Carper in the NASCAR fire suit with adverts slapped all over is funny. Funny because it’s true. We can end that. And with your help we will.
A candidate for and of the people will be our representative and we will send her to the United States Senate.
Over the next few weeks platform and policy will be shared. Goals that will bring us together in satisfaction and security. Then, on Saturday, February 10th, our candidate will be introduced to the public at the Chris White Gallery on 7th and Shipley Streets.
I’m asking for one thing. Turn up to the event. We’ve argued for this and hoped for this. Look at the platform. Think on it. Disseminate and discuss it. Then come, rally with comrades, and meet our courageous fighter. This needs to be that kind of effort. Physical attendance will be crucial in this process. The Revolution isn’t televised or periscoped. It simply can’t be. Those tools were created for an ulterior purpose.
I’ll introduced you to her personally. Then together we do what needs doing. Deal?
Audere est facere.