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Massachusetts Democrats are a diverse, engaged party of citizens committed to their communities, Commonwealth, and nation, who gather at a turbulent historical moment: we have decimated the trust at the heart of our social compact by promising ourselves perpetual increase and global dominion. These promises are now foundering on their false presumptions, and our most urgent task is to infuse original principles with a new currency.
ReplyDeleteIf the spirit of enterprise has been corroded by seating gamblers at our financial institutions, and if the will to work has been kneecapped by vanishing jobs;
if our wealth has proved insufficient to good health and wholesome life;
if science has been diced to serve profit, and perverted by ideology to an inventiveness that cannot sustain us;
if the soldier’s commitment to comrades and sacrifice to the nation has been abused by politics, incompetence, and untenable mission;
if the natural abundance that greeted us on Massachusetts’ shores four hundred years ago, successfully preserved by countless generations of the native civilization, has been plundered;
if we have done this, we can undo it.
Democratic governance empowers us, and we embrace that power, as well as the diversity that gives it an American vitality.
We can restructure financial institutions so that a few cannot achieve wealth at the risk of all, refocus enterprise on long-term value that serves all society, employ the willing to do the necessary work neglected in the past, train a new workforce to build a sustainable foundation for our future, and educate our children to meet the real needs of society;
we can deploy our soldiers with the discretion and respect their sacrifice deserves, support their deployment practically and politically, honor their service, and give them an attentive welcome home;
we can organize ourselves for the health of the social whole, honoring the commitment of the medical professions to heal the sick and inform the choices that support healthy lives;
we can discover and employ the means to sustain ourselves without degrading the natural world that sustains us;
and we can renew a commitment to conservation and thrift, revitalizing our pioneering spirit as we address our present circumstances.
The Massachusetts Democratic Party continuing to oppose Patriots Act as well as Islam phobia and support any legislation that replaces the Patriots Act with yhe act that supports universal human rights
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