DONOR STRIKE AGAINST DEMOCRATS: SOME RELEVANT RUMBLINGS FROM THE GRASS ROOTS
From Democrats.com, 12/3/07
The collapse of the Democratic representatives in Congress on key issues of deep concern to progressives cannot continue. The DNC must throw out the beltway consultants and speak frankly by calling out the Administration on its misfeasance and act wisely by ending the capitulation to the Bush Administration that we worked our butts off in 2006 to get you elected to stop.
While I sympathize with the sentiments of this action, especially with the frustration we all feel at not having a 'veto proof' democratic majority in the Senate, I would like to say that we alsodo not want to 'shoot ourselves in the foot' by attacking or at least hobbling the very people we hope to change this situation. Lets not let our anger and anxiety at the continued Republican roadblock from doing everythingpossible to remove them from even a minority control of Congress. This proposal seems like a Republican plot to keep Democrats from achieving office through financial starvation. Think people! Don't take your eyes off the prize: a Democrat in the White House and a socially responsible Congress.
The problem is NOT the Republicans, but the faux-Democrats of the DLC, DCCC, and the DSCC. These "Blue Dog" traitors vote with the Republicans on almost every single issue, and against the wishes, and 2006 mandate, of the Democratic grassroots base. None of these self-appointed "leaders" were elected to positions of Party influence by grassoots Democrats, as was Dr. Dean of the DNC. They were "elected" by the DLC's control of corporate donations from the same necon sources that fund the Republicans. It is no longer "frustration," but pure anger at being betrayed by these neoconservative corporate-owned New Democrat "centrists" posing as Democrats. They are like a cancer on our Party, and are gradually destroying it from the inside. They need very little help from the Republicans, who we expect to oppose us. It makes absolutely no difference who becomes the next president until we have real Democrats in Congress who will represent American voters, instead of the multi-national, un-American, and anti-Constitutional, corporations.
If is time for a new American Revolution. Our government has become so corrupt that there is no reasoning with it anymore. We need a full change, from the head of the US all the way down to the lowliest peon, and insist that all people running for office submit to psychological testing, and random drug and alcohol testing while they hold a position that can influence the lives of many people. This needs to happen before the Patriot Act is enacted, and martial law is declared. It is time for a real change, time for the general population to quit being so apathetic and insist on real change before it is really too late.
No, forming a third Party is NOT the "only alternative" to restoring political balance in this country. In fact, there are too many "third Parties" now, and that is a part of the problem. The disorganization that has resulted from spoiler Parties such as the Greenies, "Independents," and other dropout splinter groups is a perfect example of why the more organized Republican neocons have made such huge political gains over the past several years. The best solution is to take our Party away from the DLC "centrist" Blue Dogs, and send them back to the Republicans where they belong. If you are willing to expend all of the effort, energy, and passion to start from scratch, why not work just as hard to reclaim what is rightfully yours? We traditional Democrats have collectively allowed the neocon "centrist" takeover of our Party through apathy and lack of participation -- all of us. If we are not up to the task of reversing that mistake, then all of the rhetoric about forming a "more representative" Party is meaningless. You can't get out of debt by borrowing more money, and you can't improve the sociopolitical landscape of the United States by borrowing more political capital from a base that is itself disorganized and politically bankrupt. Traditional and patriotic Americans do not run from a problem -- they fight back and persevere.
The collapse of the Democratic representatives in Congress on key issues of deep concern to progressives cannot continue. The DNC must throw out the beltway consultants and speak frankly by calling out the Administration on its misfeasance and act wisely by ending the capitulation to the Bush Administration that we worked our butts off in 2006 to get you elected to stop.
While I sympathize with the sentiments of this action, especially with the frustration we all feel at not having a 'veto proof' democratic majority in the Senate, I would like to say that we alsodo not want to 'shoot ourselves in the foot' by attacking or at least hobbling the very people we hope to change this situation. Lets not let our anger and anxiety at the continued Republican roadblock from doing everythingpossible to remove them from even a minority control of Congress. This proposal seems like a Republican plot to keep Democrats from achieving office through financial starvation. Think people! Don't take your eyes off the prize: a Democrat in the White House and a socially responsible Congress.
The problem is NOT the Republicans, but the faux-Democrats of the DLC, DCCC, and the DSCC. These "Blue Dog" traitors vote with the Republicans on almost every single issue, and against the wishes, and 2006 mandate, of the Democratic grassroots base. None of these self-appointed "leaders" were elected to positions of Party influence by grassoots Democrats, as was Dr. Dean of the DNC. They were "elected" by the DLC's control of corporate donations from the same necon sources that fund the Republicans. It is no longer "frustration," but pure anger at being betrayed by these neoconservative corporate-owned New Democrat "centrists" posing as Democrats. They are like a cancer on our Party, and are gradually destroying it from the inside. They need very little help from the Republicans, who we expect to oppose us. It makes absolutely no difference who becomes the next president until we have real Democrats in Congress who will represent American voters, instead of the multi-national, un-American, and anti-Constitutional, corporations.
If is time for a new American Revolution. Our government has become so corrupt that there is no reasoning with it anymore. We need a full change, from the head of the US all the way down to the lowliest peon, and insist that all people running for office submit to psychological testing, and random drug and alcohol testing while they hold a position that can influence the lives of many people. This needs to happen before the Patriot Act is enacted, and martial law is declared. It is time for a real change, time for the general population to quit being so apathetic and insist on real change before it is really too late.
No, forming a third Party is NOT the "only alternative" to restoring political balance in this country. In fact, there are too many "third Parties" now, and that is a part of the problem. The disorganization that has resulted from spoiler Parties such as the Greenies, "Independents," and other dropout splinter groups is a perfect example of why the more organized Republican neocons have made such huge political gains over the past several years. The best solution is to take our Party away from the DLC "centrist" Blue Dogs, and send them back to the Republicans where they belong. If you are willing to expend all of the effort, energy, and passion to start from scratch, why not work just as hard to reclaim what is rightfully yours? We traditional Democrats have collectively allowed the neocon "centrist" takeover of our Party through apathy and lack of participation -- all of us. If we are not up to the task of reversing that mistake, then all of the rhetoric about forming a "more representative" Party is meaningless. You can't get out of debt by borrowing more money, and you can't improve the sociopolitical landscape of the United States by borrowing more political capital from a base that is itself disorganized and politically bankrupt. Traditional and patriotic Americans do not run from a problem -- they fight back and persevere.
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