The Next Wave

by F.T. Rea

For lack of another name, I'm going to say the working title name for the political movement I'm now envisioning is the New Wave. Eventually, someone will probably think of a better name.

In the meantime, paying an oblique tribute to what was a genuinely cool era in French cinema history works for me. And, in America's trashy culture, with cruelty thick in the air we breathe, couldn't we use a new wave?

A fresh approach?

Moreover, doesn't it also seem rather unlikely that the solutions for this nation's most vexing political/societal problems are now incubating somewhere within the ranks of the USA's two major political parties?

So, to start with, I'm suggesting that most any new party, organization, or movement, would surely be better off traveling without having to lug around much of the old two-party system's heavy baggage.

After all, the MAGA Party's predecessor, the establishment Republican Party, hasn't had a fresh idea in at least a half-dozen decades. At the same time, the Democrats -- regardless of their good intentions -- too often seem to have a hard time getting out of their own way. 

So, assuming that eventually a new wave has to come, because it always has, what will the next wave be like? Well, to me, in a single word, it will have to be about "truth." 

However, please note: Democratic Party candidates should absolutely still get our votes, since they are nowhere near as dangerous as the wretched MAGA Party. Which means there should be ample room under the New Wave's big tent for anybody who is anti-Trump. 

Anybody!

Furthermore, in today's cloudy political milieu telling the plain truth stands out. Which also means New Wavers should take care to have faith in the truth -- reality! -- they perceive before them, with their own senses. 

Moreover, one of the worst things the MAGA version of the Republican Party has done in recent years is to cook up lots of bullshit propaganda they hope will make ordinary citizens stop believing in what their own eyes and ears tell them.

Thus, when everyone knows the prices in grocery stores, coast-to-coast, have been steadily going up, Trump scowls into camera lens and coughs up another greasy batch of lies: The wannabe king declares that prices are actually going down. 

OK, if Trump has actually done nothing else for us that might be seen as "good," he surely has thrown a spotlight on the importance truth plays in how a society's center holds.

In this case, I mean W.B. Yeats' "center," as he used the word in his famous poem, "The Second Coming." So, I'm thinking that truth is the glue that makes the center hold.

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