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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"warpheads" |
| Date: |
19 Mar 2006 11:37:00 AM |
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We Poor Democrats |
We've got a particular problem; it's an old problem, and if you believe
that the division in America between the right-wing and rest of us is real
and important, it needs to be at least thought about and addressed. The
latest event concerning Sen. Feingold and his pursuit of Censure is glaring
evidence of the separation between posturing, sloganism, and the power-quest
of politians as opposed to any actual dedication to principals and ethics.
In short: Does the Democratic Party deserve to exist?
Who doesn't know that Bush lied? Who doesn't know that the Congress and
Senate have the Constitutional responsibility and authority to investigate
questions of ethics and the legality of actions of the President and any
other federal official? And as a Democrat, who else is disgusted and
shocked at the pictures of the entire Democrat side of the isle sitting
quietly and doing nothing in support of Sen. Feingold's move towards
Censure. And for that matter, what exactly have the Democrats been doing?
During the Reagan Union-Busting era; once the Unions lost a substantial
number of members and no longer had the 'political clout' they once had, the
Democrats dropped them like a hot potato. If not for the work of organizing
of SEIU the voice of organized labor would not be heard at all on Capital
Hill.
With between 70-75% of Americans still in favor of Roe vs Wade, the DLC
(Democrat Leadership Conference, representing the conservative branch of the
party that consistently crosses the isle to vote with the Republicans, and
maintain a choke-hold on the party) are trying to find ways to appeal to the
'red' states with compromises on a Woman's Right to Choose that won't offend
the 15-20% of Americans that identify themselves with the Religious Right;
Hillary Clinton leading the way.
With even the likes of Neo-Con Pat Buchanan stating on MSNBC last week
that the "Economy is improving for the richest 20% of Americans and
Corporations, but not the rest of working Americans..."; the reality of the
economic injustice of 26 years since Reagan proving that continued attempts
at 'trickle-down', billions of tax dollars given freely to Corporations for
research and development, tax breaks to the rich has failed. The results
have been the richest and most powerful country in the history of the world
subsisting on credit-debt consumerism, wildly over-inflated single family
home property values offered as a way to allow the average working family to
subsist by refinancing themselves deeper into debt to pay bills that
paychecks can't afford; while 'Free-Trade' is forced on the rest of the
world as Corporations achieve imperialist power: The carrot being billions
of corporate dollars, the stick being America's military might if they don't
comply. As one who is politically Left, I get worried when a Neo-Con like
Pat Buchanan is the only one talking about this and elected Democrats act
like they've never heard of it.
The Health Care and the Banking and Securities Industries are a
Bunko-Artists dream. Where are the Democrats when it comes to the millions
of hourly-wage working Americans that lost tens of thousands of dollars
from their 401 K savings accounts when Merrill Lynch had it's fiasco in
2000-2001? I was among them. And this is not the first time when Wall
Street needs to cover bad debt they rob the unprotected working class of
their savings. Reagan did it in the 80's when he allowed the banking
industries to just take the IRA's back. Any threat to the 'bottom-line' of
the rich and it comes out of the pockets of the working and middle classes
with a "too-bad, so-sad" from those in power. And Health Care? Health Care
in the United States is owned by the Insurance Industry who charge Americans
for a service that is deducted monthly from our paychecks and billed again
at 'point of sale' for a band-aid and an advise nurse on the phone offering
home remedies in lieu of medical care. In Canada you may have to wait in
line for a while; but you get the medical care. In the U.S. we have Kaiser
hiring people off the streets as telemarketers to answer the advise lines
and after referencing a symptom catalog book, offer at home remedies to keep
the "health-care consumer" out and protect the bottom line...in short: No
Medical Care; just the monthly bill. As with most things in America today,
we're being charged for services we don't get and our elected officials pass
law after law to protect the interests of the Corporate Elite from
ungrateful rabble: Us. Where are the Democrats?
I think I found the Democrats. They are all behind Nancy Pelosi chanting
the mantra: Let's Just Focus On Winning The Election. Don't make waves and
offend the red states (who only went red by single digits and not at all in
some states; but that didn't matter to the Supreme Court.), and let the DLC
lead us to being better Republicans that the Republicans are.
Last week one of the various 'think tanks' was quoted as saying that
within the next decade or less a third party would take over. If this is
true, it will be because the Democrats have lost by being too busy trying to
get back on the Corporate teat the Republicans knocked them off of; which
they were able to do because the Democrats were too busy stuck on the
Corporate teat to notice things were going wrong down here...where the "Joe
Six-pack" and the rest of working Americans live and work. The 80-90 % of
us. And the most important thing the so-called Democrat front runner for
2008, Hilary Clinton, can offer is to send fundraising requests to
registered Democrats outside of her state, offer compromise on Choice, and
wrangle to get her face on a damn stamp for free political advertising and
the majority of democrats pout and bemoan the loss of the heyday of being in
power while laughing up their sleeves at people like Sen. Feingold and
Howard Dean for being the few that seem to remember why there is a Democrat
party, where it came from and what it used to do.
As for me personally; I live in California and have registered Peace and
Freedom. If the Democrats don't offer me a choice I can at least vote my
conscience. How funny. The Peace and Freedom party started by being the
conscience of the Democratic Party that was forced to leave the Democratic
Party. And now; rather than want it's conscience back, it want to become
another Republican Party. Poor Democrats: So close to your lesser gods in
Corporate America and so far from the American People.
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