Dkos threads are swamped with weaseling poseurs, trying to demonize and demoralize the party and the electorate with incessant assertions of contrived outrage over the "failure" of Obama to overcome the real politik of a LACK OF SUFFICIENT VOTES IN THE CONGRESS to ram through his programs, as long as the Blue Dog/Republican coalition maintains their present plurality.
Demanding the impossible is easy...changing the reality is more difficult, requiring a material, explicit grassroots campaign to seize the power electorally, democratically, in this country, by replacing the traitors with progressives in 2010 and 2012.
The solution is certainly not to allow duplicious propagandists to succeed in splitting the party and poaching support for guaranteed loser "alternative" parties and candidates, nor in bolstering the insane hegemony- seeking ploys behind hard-left calls for electoral boycott.
People can enumerate their multiplicity of disappointments, in excruciating detail, ad nauseum, on any given issue, and they will not necessarily be "wrong", per se, about how bad the present situ sucks. But to do so without a material analysis of the root problem and the grassroots solution, is counter-productive and can only be considered suspect.
COINTELPRO is alive and well, and is operational, even within the "radical" left.
To see the evidence of that, look for inconsistencies and contradictions in logic.
The only real issue that really matters, and is at the root of all the other issues, is democracy.
The only material analysis is to recognize that we are presently under a dictatorship of corporate fascist interests, intransigent traitors, who refuse to submit to the popular democratic will, traitors who serve only the interests of their own private profit, even against the public interest.
And the only legitimate response to recognition of that harsh, cold reality of our situation is to call off the present substantial electoral boycott, and the vote splitting, and to mobilize the electorate to deal a definitive coup de grace to the Blue Dog/Republican cabal, in 2010 and 2012.
What we need is a "dictatorship" of democracy, in the public interest, to carry out the Peoples' will. The right will scream bloody murder, of course, about their "right" to the "freedom" to be traitors, but what really matters is who wins the struggle for power. The right hates and fears democracy, and the prospect that brings, of revolutionary justice, more than anything else in the world.
The right are only barely holding on by the skin of their teeth, which is clearly indicated by the escalating intensity of their hysterical, draconian rhetoric.
The right has shot their wad, for years now, turning out their entire constituency, to barely seize the power by hook and by crook, by very narrow margins, primarily by suppression of likely Democratic voter turnout.
The more people who vote, the more progressive the outcome, and everybody knows that. That's why the Republicans do everything in their considerable power to suppress general, as well as specific voter turnout...go figure.
Over 100 million eligibles refused to vote last time, even with Obama on the ticket, primarily due to disgust with the Blue Dogs, and the perception that there is "no difference" between the parties.
That is an idiotic and contrived conundrum, since the only reason the Blue Dogs and Republicans have ever weaseled their way into power in the first place is because of low voter turnout.
It's a bogus COINTELPRO inspired construct, a completely insane contradiction, deliberately, insidiously imbedded deeply into our society and even into the movements for justice and peace. It must be rooted out, to defeat the real enemies of democracy.
The right has no electoral reserves to bring to the struggle for power. They went all out, and still lost to Obama, despite full-court press propaganda spew 24/7, from monopoly capitalist commercial mass media, for the last 30 years.
In spite of everything the right has brought, we are NOT a Center/Right nation. We are considerably to the left of center, and that trend is accelerating. The left has won the revolution, in terms of the hearts and minds of the people.
The only thing that remains is to suppress the counter-revoutionary anti-democratic traitors who refuse to submit to the popular democratic will...democratically, electorally, like our brothers and sisters have been doing in Latin America.
Racism, sexism, eco-rape and corporate ripoff warmongering profiteering pigs are no longer politically correct in this country, and all the whining and snarling about that on Faux "News" proves it.
The latent progressive vote among non-voters is huge, and they must be mobilized to step up and seize the power more completely, once and for all...to establish a progressive super-majority in the Congress and all the way down the ladders of power to the local levels.
When, and only if, those progressive-leaning non-voters see a clear life and death struggle going on, a knock down drag out fight within the Democratic Party, explicitly to purge the Blue Dogs and to dispatch what remains of the Republicans, explicitly to seize the power from those traitors once and for all, will they be inspired to abandon the contrived "no difference" meme, and to step up to join in what could be a truly revolutionary final struggle.
You say you want a revolution?
Report to your local Democratic Party headquarters, soonest, and take the motherfucker over.
You say only civil war can really resolve the contradictions?
Well, nothing is more certain to precipitate that civil war than for progressives to seize the power democratically...the right are always the ones who bring civil war, to prevent democracy, anywhere.
The stronger the popular democratic mandate, the faster and easier the suppression of that ultimate, inevitable civil war will be, and the sooner we can start to really move forward, any way you look at it.
We might even be able to avoid all out civil war, or to minimize it's impact, with a fast and deep enough popular democratic mandate...but even if such theoretical American exceptionalism is proven false, heh, we'll still be in a much better position to crush the traitors, with a very strong, overwhelming, undeniable, unavoidable popular democratic mandate.
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst, I always say....
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