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conservatives often view me as a radical a communist a socialist a homosexual and other labels they believe denigrating enough to invoke a public outcry of ostracism liberals too, often view me in many of the same terms yet more because they feel ashamed at how a seemingly right-minded bluish-white collared almost thirty white American citizen could stray so far from the parameters acceptable to the mainstream press and public but progressives view me as a progressive a preacher of a Green revolution in consciousness and socio-political awareness of a movement away from the coddling of the Fortune 500 wet-dream to control and exploit every market in the world and the laissez-fairing of the poor of the globe in a 21st century Gilded Age to a hand-in-hand democratic-socialism that narrows the gap between powerful and powerless with decentralization of multi-national corporations and creation of worker-owned cooperatives with free health care and free education and direct democracy via the internet and progressives believe in me as a progressive a teacher of world cultures and human hirstory dedicated to the thousand-petal lotus of uni-racialism and homo sapiens' sapient responsibility to each other and the sickening planet an advocate of proportional representation the rebalancing of federal and state power and the elimination of the winner take-all political process that entrenches the two party head and tails of the same coin and even though many perspectives of me and other thinkers whose ideas disagree with the marketed poppycock of the bankers and oilmen with the Manichean discourse of daisy-cutters with the Spencerian breath of sweatshops and depleted uranium our words, our thoughts, our ideas our electronic octopus' garden with conches full of beauty and social justice nestle in the coral waiting for any snorkler to examine the incandescent perspectives of our dedicated flock · · · · · ·
Resources Poetry on Swans America the 'beautiful' on Swans Scott Orlovsky is a World History & Cultures, and an American History teacher at Clifton High School in New Jersey. He has a BA in History from the Johns Hopkins University and a MA in History from the University of Colorado. Do you wish to share your opinion? We invite your comments. E-mail the Editor. Please include your full name, address and phone number. If we publish your opinion we will only include your name, city, state, and country. Please, feel free to insert a link to this article on your Web site or to disseminate its URL on your favorite lists, quoting a few paragraphs or providing a summary. However, please DO NOT steal, scavenge or repost this work on the Web. © Scott Orlovsky 2003. All rights reserved. |
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