Did anyone listen to Mike Malloy last night?

[Daylin Byak]

I was listening to Malloy on AAR on my way home from work and what he said was true.

-The Democrats who decided not to filibuster Alito are spineless bastards(he likes to say that word alot)

-online petitions and moveon.org do not work

-we will not take back the house or Senate in '06

-we will be lucky if we will win another election by the year 2020

he's right, with the party not unified how can we. remember this isn't the 1960's anymore where democrats ruled everything. We have be riticuled in the past 12 years by the repukes in the media and have done nothing to stop it. And we do not give the people a reason to vote for us, just because the republican party is in shambles, dosen't mean they will switch over to the other side.

Face, spinless democratic senators, Al From and the DLC is ruining the party and we must stop iy.

Discuss....

[omega minimo]

1. Daylin Byak-- is that Klingon?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=278739&mesg_id=278739

[Dhalgren]

2. I love Malloy and I think he was dead-on last night.

However, there is one aspect to his "get out there and organize", "work small and build it back up" diatribe that he is missing. In the past this was a free country, ruled by allegiance to the Constitution, and fair and equal treatment before the law. That is no longer the case. We no longer live in a "free" country. Malloy calls the neo-cons who have taken over our country "fascists" and he is absolutely right, but he then says that "they can't keep us from organizing". But they can, they will, or they will try. How successful can an opposition be to a dictator who is empowered to declare anyone an "enemy combatant" or an "enemy of freedom"? We have to be prepared to be met with violence, and imprisonment - just like the "Wobblies" in the early 20th century. The Republicans had it easy in their drive to power from the mid 1960's to now, because they were working within a free society with the government in the hands of people who respected and defended the Constitution. We are not so lucky....

[leftchick]

3. he is right

but in my opinion it has gone way too far to stop.

[apple_ridge]

4. Agreed.

Since nothing has been done about electronic voting, there will only be more dem losses in the next elections.

[JDPriestly]

5. The conservatives appeared to be unstoppable in the 1920s

They were corrupt, and, thanks to their corruption, they created the illusion in the country that the economy was doing fabulously. All lies then. Same lies now. It's just a matter of time. They build their house on sand, and it eventually crumbles. Let's build ours on the solid rock of a committed grassroots movement. I love Mike Malloy, but I suspect he may be somewhat bipolar (of course, aren't we all). Just keep working away, talking to one voter at a time. Encourage your friends. Don't excite your enemies to action. Let them lull themselves into complacency with all their disparagements of Democrats. Remember, we are the voice of civilization. The dog-eat-dog, profit first and foremost philosophy cannot succeed.

The Republicans' policies can't work. Not on health care, or the environment, or job creation, or education, or church and state, or bankruptcy, or the right to privacy, or the use of military power, or international relations . . . . You name it, their policies are impractical and will ultimately fail. We just have to keep pointing to the failures. Eventually, people will come to blame them for the impasse we will come to. In the meantime, focus on your real needs, lower your own consumption, and try to conserve your financial, physical and spiritual resources so you will be ready when the disaster that the Republican policies are leading to really hits. Tough times are coming -- sooner than you think.

History is repeating itself.

[Dhalgren]

7. If we survive as a nation long enough - not taking any bets...

[Matariki]

6. 3/4 of our Senators voted for the filibuster

is the glass half empty or half full, and all that shit.