Toward a Democratic Socialist Party

Bill Maher said that the Democratic party is the new Republican party. What did he mean by that? I think he meant that the Democratic party was the only viable party in America but it wasn't the liberal democratic party that was once the pride and joy and hope of the world. Maher favors the legalization of Marijuana for example. Obama has said he does not favor legalizing drugs. So, what it seems we need if America is to progress, is one party that progresses slowly and one that would push America a little faster down the progressive path. One thing this party could stand for is the legalization of all drugs with government oversight and government taxes. We tax ciggaretts and alchohol don't we? Many of the 1st world countries have dealt with drug problems much better than we have. We have a drug war in Mexico funded by the American people for gods sake. The psychology of the drug problem is the same as with the alcohol problem. If we had a decent diet and we treated each other well, and we didn't have so much stress, we probably would not have much of a drug or alcohol problem. Another thing the Democratic Socialist party could push is a mostly vegetarian diet. There is enough research (like the research on smoking) to show this is the best diet for humans. Futurists are predicting that we will all be vegetarians (or nearly so) in the future. If we just look at the diets for the major "societies" i. e. the cancer society, you can see where the American diet is going. When we get sick it seems we turn to near vegitarianism for help. So what would happen if we turn to it as preventative medicine. If a vegetarian diet can help after you are sick then there must be little in it that will make you sick, unlike the high fat American diet. How do we legislate vegitarianism? We write legislation to support organic farmers (we will support the small farmer not allow farming to become a big corporation, more on this later). We decrease support for the milk and dairy industries. We reduce government support for the meat industries excluding fish. If we are going to have some meat in our diet then fish is our best choice, mostly because it is the furthest animal away from us in evolution. We will also use our monies to teach how to cook and eat vegetarian. We will also use media (like we did for smoking) to show the benefits of an organic vegitarian lifestyle. There are more issues the DSP should stand for and I hope to discuss them all before I am through. I'd like to end this blog with a little psychological advice. Instead of spending so much time destroying the Republican party (which is imploding), why not spend more time talking about the issues that a new party, a DSP could support? Maybe we could even have a candidate by 2020. There is much work to do. Let the discussion begin.