Talk Walker

As people and voters debate the upcoming election, I am periodically hearing how the Dems are just the same, or not much different than the Repubs. To a degree, that may be true, especially regarding traditional, dyed-in-the-wool politicians. But there is a new wave of activist Dems I have seen within the Party, who are vastly different, and at this point sincere and adamant about effecting change.

Since this is much more difficult to achieve from within the Party than without, many of my fellow-activist Dem voters have made a committment to voting for a Green candidate, Byron Delear, to replace Lieberman-West Howard Berman in California’s 28th District. Congressman Berman is a staunch supporter of both Israel and the Iraq war — never mind the latter has weakened the position of the other.

Without going into Mr. DeLear’s background here, he is intelligent, thoughtful and willing to take bold actions for change. Ultimately, his election will send a strong message to Dems in the power machinery, it will take more than “going along to get along” if they want to remain in power. If Delear falls short the message will be a wake-up call: There are plenty of new voters (Gen Xers and Y’s alike) whose dismissal of the Dems in favor of a Third Party is no secret.

If you are truly committed to change, instead of criticizing and jawing about it, why not vote for DeLear, and if you can’t do that, send his campaign some $$$. Then you yourself can be truly proud of walking the talk about changing our political system.