This is a Democratic blog, a partisan blog. One that recognizes that Democrats run from left to right on the ideological spectrum, and yet we're all still in this fight together. We happily embrace centrists like NDN's Simon Rosenberg and Howard Dean, conservatives like Martin Frost and Brad Carson, and liberals like John Kerry and Barack Obama. Liberal? Yeah, we're around here and we're proud. But it's not a liberal blog. It's a Democratic blog with one goal in mind: electoral victory. And since we haven't gotten any of that from the current crew, we're one more thing: A REFORM BLOG. The battle for the party is not an ideological battle. It's one between establishment and anti-establishment factions. And as I've said a million times, the status quo is untenable
(emphasis added)
Reform:
1
a : to put or change into an improved form or condition b : to amend or improve by change of form or removal of faults or abuses
2
: to put an end to (an evil) by enforcing or introducing a better method or course of action
3
: to induce or cause to abandon evil ways <reform a drunkard>
Once upon a time in preblogistoric days, we had two political parties in America. One that represented the Ruling Class, Wall St, and the Military Industrial Complex, and one that represented the Middle Class, Working People, and even ....gasp!... The Poor.
Then the leaders of that party (The Democrats, just for the record) decided that they would somehow fair better financially if they too represented the rich! Thus the DLC and other groups were formed to make the Democrats more like the Republicans.
As nearly always happens when you choose money over principle, The Democratic Party was corrupted.
The Party of Unions and Working People and The Poor sold out....and then sold out Unions and Working People and The Poor.
Now we have a huge amount of Americans living in poverty, a vanishing Middle Class, and Unions, the Working People's only check and balance to the Ruling Class, are nearly extinct.
The majority of Americans now have no Party to represent them in our government. Even as the oligarchs continue to loot and pillage the majority of Americans.
In the most significant time of Populist anger and uprising since the Great Depression....people actually turned to The Republicans to represent them. Or at least turned away from The Democrats.
Why? Because in a time when we are being turned into this....
And there are no real alternatives being fought for....
The only power that The People have is voting the Party that is not helping them, out of power. The remaining relatively subtle differences between the two parties has been rendered inconsequential in the face of the current Class War.
There is only one logical conclusion. (Which the Dem Establishment is nearly guaranteed to ignore)
It is time to re-form the Democratic Party back into the Party of Working People.
It is time to give the boot to the current Democratic Establishment that failed us so badly in the last election, and to reform The Democratic Party....as the Party for the rest of America who aren't stinking rich.
Because really, I think (and apparently the voters do as well) the Ruling Class is doing ok without The Democrats helping them and the Republicans turn America into a Banana Republic Plutocracy.
Naturally at this point the question of how to do that arises.
Well.....
A group of (misguided and woefully ignorant of the real problem) American Citizens just propelled one Party into a record breaking electoral victory.
hmmmmmm..................
How did they do that?
Update 1: Please see this comment by Mr Bojangles.
An excerpt:
That is not to say that I disagree with what I see as your larger point, which is that we, as a bloc, have power and we can raise a more or less unified voice to express that power.
I do not subscribe to the idea that the unified voice cannot tolerate dissent and debate, nor that any leader or strategy cannot tolerate criticism or dissent.
We do need to pull our society back toward the left. The battle, to my mind, is one of oligarchy vs. populism. And I think that many of the elected Democrats are too invested in the oligarchy side of the equation.
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Update 2: OMG! This made the rec list.....
/snark
