"If the Democrats run for cover, if we become pale carbon copies of the opposition, we will lose--and deserve to lose," Kennedy said in 1980. "The last thing this country needs is two Republican parties."
This is the only explination.
this is why the dems can hardly get anything through the senate that even REMOTELY resembles real reform with 60 vote senatorial caucus. More than the republicans had since the 1920's more than bush had when he could do WHATEVER THE FUCK HE WANTED.
Why can't the Dem's get anything done? Why do they block allowing even the DISCUSSION of real reform options(i.e. single payer)
Why does the white house propose sweeping change and then pack the president's advisor and appointee positions with industry insiders
while real progressive advisors who crafted the populist rhetoric during the campaign that swept Barack Obama into office get pushed to the periphery?
why can't the senate pass a bill that re-imports vital medicine into the u.s. at 1/7th the cost of what people would buy THE SAME MEDICINE here at home.
There is only one real reason. . .
A large percentage of Democrats are actually republicans.
Until the Democrats actually put something up they should shut up and get out. There has been no championing of change by this administration.
In fact, this admin has championed Blue Dog Democrats and pressured progressivespressured progressives
unless pres obama and the dem leadership reverts to real progressive legislation and populist messages, the big business party will control u.s. politics until the collapse of our global economy/enviornment.
p.s. the above views are exactly why so much of the u.s. population doesn't even participate in politics anymore. They belive that the big business interests have already taken power and that there is really no point in participating in a sham democracy.