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Moms factor into politics more than you'd believe.
2003-06-02 - 3:14 a.m.
My mom taught me that when you know that something is right, you can not compromise.
Whether she dislikes that lesson or not, that is what she taught me.
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My mom, when she first won an election, was my hero.
She was a woman. She was socialist. She was poor.
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She lost the next election. It had been a minority government, and the government was toppled (use a search engine if this is too much info). Mom's party - the "worker's party" - could not even give her a job.
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She was still my hero.
I saw her when she was a politician, and she was a strong human being. She liked herself, sometimes.
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I also saw her struggling with her party, while she was an elected official. She hated the "politics of being re-elected." She hated the closed-door meetings, where she would be told (because she was a "backbencher") to do what she was told...or else.
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I also saw her party... -our- party...the party of the "Left"...the party that promised her a job...
That party didn't even return her calls.
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Um, that will be Part One. Pookie and I have had a conversation about his conflicted feelings toward his mother (No, I'm not kidding. I am, however, drunk). I've lost the battle, but not the war.
Cheers,
The Magus
