I am having trouble understanding how we went from winning the debate to whimpering in the corner broken and beaten. It happened so fast.
It was just yesterday I was out protesting Bush with 2,000 of the coolest people I've ever met. I was so focused on that, I had no idea that I was about to go from politically optimistic to betrayed and disillusioned.
Are the ANSWER people right when they say the democrats really don't want to end the war, and are just playing their assigned role, and are a critical part of keeping the war going?
I think Congress is irrelevant. They are not representative of America. Things happen too fast now. We need congress 2.0
I'm thinking something like Daily Kos meets Myspace. A place where people can come and join groups of like minded people and vote on decisions that affect their lives. Grand coalitions would be formed and compromises struck. It could all happen online.
Im digressing... What I'm trying to say is I'm pissed. I'm so pissed I have only one thing to say to any elected dem who tries to tell me this capitulation is a victory:
FUCK YOU
I'm on Strike!
I'm with 8ackgr0und N015e
A strike is not taking your ball and going home.
A strike is about demanding fair treatment. Once we get it, we go back to work on your campaigns.
That's right. I am a very dedicated volunteer. I worked full time to elect democrats in 06, and we helped get Joe Courtney elected, he only won by 70 votes.
Now my representatives have pissed on me, and set the party back years.
It's not their party, it's ours and we can't let them fuck it up.
We're going to run anti-war primary challengers against every last one of you!
Can we just have recall primaries all over America starting next week?
No, we can't... See, politics in America are too slow.
The ways we have to pressure our representatives are weak. We are not able to exert that much pressure, we rarely get them to change their votes. They fuck us all the time.
We need new ways of making them do what the country wants.
They need to feel it this time. Right now I consider all the backstabbing leadership enemies of the democratic party. They're pissing away our good name.
They're making America cynical about politics. A mom told me today that you can't even trust the Democrats anymore. Theres no one to vote for she said anymore.
Why is that even when the conservatives lose they win? This cynicism about government is just what they want.
We're going to lose in 2008 if we run Hillary or Obama, that much was made clear by their refusal to lead on this issue by offering pathetic no-comments on THE MOST IMPORTANT FUCKING ISSUE OF THE THIRD MILLENIUM!
The Republicans will find their Reagan to feed them bullshit about morning in America and the good old days, and our party boss's will annoint the worst the DLC can come up with to sabotage us once again.
Maybe the DLC is just a racket that wins huge amounts of money by betting on elections that it intentionally throws.
It makes more sense than the idea that our leaders are rational self-interested politicians, because they just lost big time.
Some say they might be being blackmailed, well if they will let more young Americans die in Iraq because they don't want their affair to become public, well fuck them. We need leaders who will risk their lives for America.