Fw: [Vision2020] The Wilson-Jones Vision of the World

[David M. Budge]

Joan.,

It is true that we have had such discussions.  Gratifying discussion 
too.  There is a great deal of common ground between progressives and 
libertarians such as the elimination of corporate welfare, the sale of 
public resources at below market rates, and privacy issues.  Better we 
start with the wrestling thing though.  That did work for Jesse 
Ventura.  We can do that while watching the two party system rust away.

About your secretary.  My guess is he did send me the memo, so I advise 
you give him a second chance. My dyslexia interfered with my 
understanding and was exacerbated by the fact that font was "new times 
red crayon."  I advise that your entire enterprise switch to "new times 
sharp red crayon." 

I'll attempt to read Molly Ivins and Barbara Ehrenreich (again) but 
that's contingent upon me being able to find enough Pepcid AC in Montana 
to make it though.  A tough proposition by any measure.

See you at the belly-rub (AKA the mixer.)

db

Joan Opyr wrote:

> Dave writes:
>  
> "Um... er... Um???  I didn't think we had come quite that far.  We're 
> going to have a hell of time developing a party platform if we begin 
> on the economic issues.  After all, I really am very libertarian.  
> Where we can start (where modern political discourse fails) is to 
> concede that each other's motivations are good.  Which I do.  But 
> we're going to have to arm wrestle or play mumbly peg over 
> entitlements.  Which I'm also willing to do."
>  
> What?  You didn't get the memo about the Opyr-Budge Progressive 
> Libertarian Party's official launch on April 3rd, sunset, at the 
> Golden Gate Bridge?  I'll have to speak very sharply to my secretary 
> about that.  Unfortunately, he's only five and has already retired for 
> the night.  But I'll reprimand him sharply when he wakes up tomorrow, 
> expecting his Frosted Mini-Wheats, his orange juice, and a quiet 
> half-hour watching Blues Clues, just as if he'd done what he was 
> supposed to do.  I've got to hire better help.  Know anyone else who 
> will work for Playdough? 
>  
> Anyhow, sorry to puzzle you, Dave.  I was writing in shorthand.  What 
> I meant to say was that I have mentioned to you in some private 
> correspondence that I acknowledge some merit in taking a libertarian 
> approach to some issues, particularly vexing social and/or religious 
> ones, and that I was under the impression that you and I had begun 
> some kind of preliminary discussion regarding the disintegration of 
> the two-party system (or, rather, its lingering shell -- this is a 
> one-party state in which the nominal Ds and Rs at the top agree to 
> screw the nominal Ds and Rs at the bottom) and that there was the 
> possibility of a creative dissonance in which I might concede some 
> of your points, and you might concede some of mine. 
>  
> I did propose to you, did I not, the possibility of a progressive 
> libertarian dance party mix?  We needn't be of one mind to do a kind 
> of hip-hop two-step.  I read and enjoy The Economist.  All I ask is 
> that you read a little Barbara Ehrenreich and Molly Ivins.  I do think 
> that progressive libertarianism might be possible -- particularly if 
> it includes wrestling, arm, mud, or WWF.  That could really catch on.  
> In fact, now that I think about it, wasn't progressive libertarianism 
> part of Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura's mass appeal?
>  
> Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
> www.auntie-establishment.com <http://www.auntie-establishment.com>
>  
> PS: I don't want to be party chair.  You can have that.  I want to 
> write the manifesto.  In rhyming heroic couplets.    
>
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