"I'm not going to support a party that doesn't try." CLICK.

That was the response of the first person who I contacted in my new position as a phone caller for contributions to The Democratic Party of Georgia. The caller's angry words indicated to me that I had my work cut out for me, and that The Democratic Party of Georgia has its work cut out for it, also. After all, Georgia has a Republican Governor, and Republicans control just about everything politically in this state. Georgia is what you call a, "Red State." My job is, now, to help turn that Red into Blue, and I am doing this by calling Democrats in the state, and asking them to contribute their green to The Party.

Do not ask for a "donation," I have been told. Donation is a bad word. A donation is a handout. A "contribution" is an investment. I seek investments in The Party, not handouts, so I have been trained to ask for a contribution. Wording can be everything in the phone calling game, and I am glad for the instruction. My boss has positioned me where she can hear me read my script, a script that I want to be off paper with as fast as possible. I don't want to sound like I am reading from something. I want what I say to the people who answer their telephones to sound sincere, as if what I am saying is coming from the heart; which it is.

Recently, I thought about changing my party affiliation from that of a Democrat to that of an Independent. Someone had told me that that was a thing that you could do in Georgia: file as an Independent. Neither party, Democratic, or Republican, was satisfying me. I felt that The Democratic Party was week, was becoming very namby pamby on issues that were important to me.

It seemed like The Republicans were ganging up on The Democrats, bullying them into doing things that were not Democratic Party ideals, and that The Democrats were not fighting back. (Perhaps the man that had said that The Democrats "don't try" was right). It seemed as if The President was not delivering on things that he had promised while he was running for election, or at least was not delivering on them fast enough for my liking. I tend to enjoy quick fizes. I like wars ended immediately. I like my economy fixed sooner.

Someone told me, yesterday, that you can not register to be an Independent in The Great State of Georgia. When it gets down to the key issues such as Social Security, Education, and War, I am not Independent: I am not a Republican. I stand for what The Democratic Party stands for.

Brian Buchanan I am not sure there is such a thing as a strong democrat. True strength involves reliance upon one's self. There are people with strong democrat beliefs about a nanny state, and class warfare, and democrats in power that could be seen as positions of strength. Very few actual strong democrats though.
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Mikel K Poet I like Brian, as a person. He is charismatic, and nice to be on a job with, which is where I met him many years ago. Many. Politically, he is always on the attack, on the attack. I don't like being attack, so I have bid him adieu via the block mechanism. On Facebook, you don't have to always agree with me. Or maybe you do. Bye bye Brian!

Politics is a funny thing, for those of us who choose to be involved in them, at what ever level. It's like the old adage: everyone's got one, and they all stink!