After giving them hundreds of volunteer hours, even more dollars and thousands of phone calls, I just said goodbye to Organizing For America (Obama For America).
When I unsubscribed from their email list, they wanted to know why. Join me over the flip to see what I told them.
I can read the writing on the wall. On the issue of a public option in health care reform, the Obama Administration and the Democratic Leadership want to throw progressive activists under the bus.
You did it to us on telecom immunity in FISA.
You did it to us with the Wall Street bailout.
I'm no longer going to contribute, or volunteer, for a status quo that I don't believe in.
You've lost me.
2010 is going to suck for you guys. Your Democratic majority will be diluted. But you really weren't doing very much with it anyway. Instead, you’ve been playing to the Beltway crowd, where the rules favor the Republicans.
Bush and the Republicans found a way to get a much more radical agenda passed, using a smaller Congressional majority. Of course, they did it through aggressive disinformation campaigns. I never expected you to do that. I did expect you to be revolutionaries in a time of universal deceit: I expected you to aggressively tell the truth. Instead of doing that, you let yourselves get ensnared in yet another Beltway disinformation campaign.
If you want me back, then you know where to find me: I’ll be outside the Beltway, over here on the left, where the center used to be.
UPDATED: Repeating for for the hand wringers and fearmongers who can't seem to read very well:
If you want me back, then you know where to find me: I’ll be outside the Beltway, over here on the left, where the center used to be.