Reply #130: Nice sentiment, but futile in the end.... [View All]

[Moostache]

Any third party (or fourth party if you consider the TEA baggers as a splintering of the Repukes) is doomed to failure for a lack of funding and a lack of sustained involvement by the public - not to mention that they would receive nothing but scorn from both the MSM (mainstream media) and the RWM (right wing media, aka Faux Noise) and face a spending orgy from the monied interests of the Powers That Be. I am embarrassed to admit that I am a big part of the problem - I thought Obama was on the level with "Change We Can Believe In" and I stopped being active after the Inauguration (about the same time he began sprinting away from the left); but in reality, once Geithner was appointed and the announcement was made that single-payer was off the table on HCR from the word go, I knew in my heart that the jig was up and that I had been had. There is no real change coming to America, second verse, same as the first....

Our existing government is bought and paid for by people determined to extend their lies (war against "terror"), fictions (the banking industry is sound) and stranglehold on wealth (by gutting the progressive taxation system for decades and enriching "capital" as they impoverished "labor" and starved government programs into ineffectness) as long as possible before imploding the entire thing and trying to skate off with their ill-gotten gains while some 300 million Americans are left behind in the ashes. I say the time for drastic action is rapidly approaching, but forming a Progressive splinter party to counter act the TEA-baggers on the right is not what I have in mind...