Reply #49: If only this is a normal iteration of American History and not the Coming of Caesar [View All]

[tom_paine]

You might be right, though. I know most of DU would rather you were.

But you do understand there is another force at work out here: a demoralized and unsupported base.

I am one of the ones who, previously inactive, DID get up off my ass and did donate my ass off as well as work it off, especially in 2004, but also in 2002 and '06, and with the intention of doing so for the rest of my life.

In '08, it is going to be a very different matter for me. I simply cannot bring myself to bust my ass for them, anymore. And for just that reason: I can't even think of the Democratic Party Leadership as 'us' anymore, though I have been registered Democratic for almost 3 decades.

The exception being unless, perhaps, Gore, Edwards, or Clark were to receive the nomination, and even then, whatever enthusiasm and effort I will be putting into my candidate will be hindered by these feelings of disgust and lack of support from many, if not most, of the Demoractic Leadership in Congress.

Yeah, I'll vote for them because there really is no other choice, faced with True Totalitarian Evil as we are, but I couldn't even make myself work enthusiatically hard for the Dems now even if I wanted to, now, after I have just had a bellyful of of yellow bellyfuls. So sick of capitulation and surrender, of dry powder and the rewards of past gutlessness (Alito, PATRIOT Act, etc. etc. ETC.) so clearly coming back to show how, at each turn, a pricipled stand was called for...or at least for ONE of the dozens of opportunities.

You are probably correct, in that for whatever small hope we still have about possibly turning this country back from the Nazi-Bushie-Soviet-style horror that likely awaits 50 or 100 years from now (perhaps much sooner), it does indeed rest with the Democratic Leadership that, at this time, seems so unlikely to deliver on any of it.

And there is still hope. Of that there can be no mistake. The outcome of this has yet to be decided, though many think it is close to being decided, and I am one of them.

I have resisted talking about this in public boards, because I still at heart do not wish to hurt the Democratic Party and a realization that most of what you say is true.

But I cannot stand any longer the gut punches taken quitely, the toadying...for fuck's sake, he raised his voice at him and they came scurrying back like the most lickspittle of 1770 British Courtiers or Caligula's Senators to give him EVERYTHING HE WANTED.

ENOUGH! After almost SEVEN years of dry powder, I can't take it anymore!

ON EDIT: The way Gonzales CLEARLY and REPEATEDLY perjured himsef before Congress, in such a way and on video tape and contradicted by other under-oath testimony PLUSE e- and memo evidence, only to hear Biden say they can't impech Gonzales BECAUSE THERE'S NO SMOKING GUN. That is patently absurd and Orwellian. If anyone one of us had told any ONE of those lies, we'd be sitting in a cell at the end of the day, or at the very least by the end of the month. Some it seems to me that this particular kind of toadying cannot be overcome by majorities, but by having a spine in the first place.

The Dems have probably noticed my usually-reliable revenue stream dying up, but it is still too small likely to concern them, even though I guarantee that there are tens of thousands of revenue stream that, coincidentally, have begun doing the same.

Still, if those Dems hustle, they can pick up a corporate check or two that will nullify the loss of those tens of thousands of Little Nobodies.

:grr: