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I think it is time to take a look at where this country is headed. People must really ask themselves. "How far is the Bush Neocons going to go and when are the Democratic lawmakers going to start fighting them more?" Words and rhetoric from our Democratic Senators and Congresspeople just will not do anymore. In this case actions speak louders than words. Unfortunately, there has been very little in the way of action and it is hurting this country deeply. It is also hurting the credibility of the party that is suppose to be the opposition of all of this.
There are those who say that only through a moderate or third way stance the Democrats can win. That has been ill-proven election after election, The actions, or lack thereof, of certain lawmakers in the House and the Senate has shown that Democrats have been slowly becoming a token opposition to the Neocons. These people have been eating from the same troft as the Republicans. They are getting the same money from the multinationals. The Neocons push the corporatist/military agenda while many of the Democrats have been pacified or they will be subtle about their support for that same agenda. These people, the DLC types and Republican Lite types have been betraying the true Democratic Party principles because they have been bought. I fear Howard Dean has so far failed to put a stop to the contamination of the Democratic Party by corporate interests. I am not meaning to say we should give up but something must be done to rid the Democratic Party of these traitors and the evil money that influences them.
It is very easy to call people like Dean and those who are disillusioned with the state of the Democrats "lefties" but it goes more deeper than that. Many more people are becoming out of work, the Iraq war was and still is a fiasco, America is less safe than it was before 9/11/01, and our civil liberties are slowly being taken from us. An opposition that does not fight 100 per cent of these problems is a useless opposition. It is not some right-wing vs left-wing situation, DNC vs DLC, or whatever. It has gone way beyond that. It is about right vs. wrong, economically, it is the top vs. the bottom, and for everybody, it is democracy vs. dictatorship. If the Democratic Party does not rid itself of this cancer of complacency, then the time will come for everybody from the libertarian right-wing all the way to the left-wing socialists to set aside whatever differences we may have and save our country without the help of a stagnant two-party system. I have mentioned that the left must unite before but it is gone beyond just the left uniting anymore. Now, everybody who cares about this country and the freedoms we hold dear to come together to get rid the country, albeit it must be peacefully, of the Neocons, the military-industrial complex and even the so-called Democrats who are in league with them.
I may not have all of the answers but I will say is that everybody must come together without a litmus test both left or right and clean up the government and the country of this menace. The menace of the military/industrial complex and those who feed off it for their own power and self-preservation. The other thing I must say is that some people may not be ready to rise up yet as they maybe too comfortable with their lives. This is why you are not seeing the mass people rising up here than you did in the Ukraine and Serbia during their revolutions. That might change in a few years once more jobs go away, more people who are no longer able to have health care, or even able to go to Europe or wherever on vacation anymore. These people who come out of the ether from this must be encouraged to join us to fight for our own survival and freedoms. Everybody will need everyone's support and solidarity.
John
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