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I think what we are witnessing lately is the coming together of at least two situations that had existed for many years now, but now the consequences of things are really starting to unfold. The takeover of the formerly populist Democratic Party and its middle-class base by the rich-corporate DLC with its corporate donors and deregulation, plus the almost all-male hierarchy/leadership of the Party, which seldom listened to us ever, has now begun to meld together and become an organized force and influence, leading to some really frightening effects. None of the real influence is being controlled by us, though, which proves yet again that some of your most threatening enemies are let into the house by your friends.
Who would ever have thought up the idea that you should seek votes from anything other than your own membership--isn't that common sense to these people anymore? All those years and years of "I'm not really a liberal," "I like Republicans," "we need to stop relying on government," "smaller government," all social welfare programs shifted from giving aid to poor people to giving "aid" to corporations, giving pretty speeches about the fears of workers, then giving more tax cuts to corporations, on and on--the entire "corporate government" that we are cursed with now was actually brought one step closer to acceptability by the sloganeering of Clinton. Combine that with this non-stop drumbeat that we should be "bi-partisan," meaning only that we should capitulate to them as if our separate perspective on issues equalled "not-niceness"--everything about our fight undercut not only by the corporate-media enemy, but by "Democrats" like the DLC, leaving us nowhere to go, and not only under attack from all sides, but now unrepresented. How much of the current horror never would have had a chance to start, if Clinton, etc., hadn't given this group a cleared path first? All the while, criticizing us "constituents" for breaking up the party, as if we are a nuisance, and the Party only exists now in corporate-lobbyist D.C.
The same males who never fought for any of our issues--from equal pay to real laws against rape and battering--now give us "I don't know anybody who is for abortion" and all the rest. If you go over the numbers, you will realize that if Kerry had not listened to "prick" males like Al From and Joe Biden, to kill all women's issues and only play to the "male soldier" vote, which then cost Kerry the percentage of women's votes that Al Gore got, and if Kerry instead had just run a normal campaign not so hyped on steroids, that Kerry would have won (yes, I know that Kerry did win--but this would not have been fixable for Repubs just by fucking up Ohio, etc.). There has always been a strong element of male hate against us in this Party as everywhere else (how many "kill the white bitch" threads are we going to get here on this website, COMPLAINING about raped, murdered white women GETTING ATTENTION by being EXPLOITED BY THE MALE MEDIA, while every rich male gets away with everything). At the very least, the point should be made, over and over, that this tactic of shutting women out cost us the Prseidency, and they are responsible.
Now this treasonous bastard Republican Party is denying and destroying democracy on a scale that most people never would've believed they would actually do, and some of the most pointed attacks on those who would fight against it--"extremist liberal," "traitor," "you hate America," "you don't even try to get along with Republicans," "obstructionist," etc.--were lines supplied to these people free of charge, by the DLC. Even the outrageous idea that the most ordinary, middle-of-the-road liberal idea is now "extreme," and worst of all, non-corporate, began as an attack not by Republicans, who picked it up, but by the DLC and Clinton. The consequences are getting worse and worse because we the people need politcal parties, (and good labor unions, etc.), to win against the powerful; they on the other hand, not only do not need political parties, but benefit by their destruction. It kills, specifically, our only hope.
Now it has all taken many steps forward, wielding its consolidated power, and the only solution--obvious but hard to do--is to get the people back into the Party and the political system. Now the whole thing is so corporate, though, that they don't even debate you anymore, but just pitch, and frame, and smear. An operation like this starts to run on its own, unstoppable, until the people rise up--but when even marches and protests are jeered at, described incorrectly, and sold like "Must See TV," then what do you do--censored and slandered by the corporate empire that committed the crime in the first place? ...And after all, who killed the regulations that used to protect us from such monopoly? Clinton. They are all one. The question now is, how do the non-rich re-take something that is not even a political system anymore, but is itself a corporation?
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