This article from the WSWS claims such a campaign would threaten the interests of the Democrats. A motivated, aware populace would be a threat to the corporations that own both political parties. Look at the right wing agenda. Look at the incredible crimes committed by this genuine horrible administration. Look at the near absence of serious opposition from the Opposition Party. As the article suggests, imagine the behavior of the Republicans if the situation were reversed and we had lied the nation into a disastrous criminal war, had engaged in massive corruption, and were destroying the economy for generations to come. Why nothing remotely similiar from the Democrats?
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What are the aims of the Federalist Society and the various right-wing groups that have helped pushed the Alito and Roberts nominations? They include the rollback of the welfare state, the elimination of corporate regulations, the repudiation of international law, the expansion of executive power, and the elimination of the separation of church and state. The elevation of Alito to the Supreme Court poses a serious threat to the democratic rights and social interests of the American people.
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If the Democrats were serious about opposing Alito and his extreme right-wing agenda, they would mount a political campaign among broad masses of the population. However, this is the last thing they want, for this would pose a threat to the interests the Democrats themselves support.
In spite of the declining support for the administration, the popular opposition to the war and the assault on democratic rights, the anger that has been generated due to declining living standards and growing inequality, the ballooning corruption scandal surrounding lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and the indictment of several administration officials—the Republicans are able to carry their programs through the Senate with virtually no opposition from the Democrats.
The Democratic Congressional leadership has sought to apologize for its spineless surrender by citing the Republicans’ 55-45 majority in the upper house. But there is no question that if the roles were reversed the Republicans would be far more aggressive and provocative in the minority than the Democrats have been in relationship to Bush’s agenda. Moreover, the last major action carried out by the Democrats when they did control a similarly narrow majority in the Senate was the infamous vote in October 2002 to authorize Bush to wage war on Iraq, which passed overwhelmingly by a vote of 77 to 23, a margin tellingly similar to the margin by which the Alito nomination was cleared for a final vote.
This can be explained only by the fact that the Democrats have no real opposition to the policies of war, attacks on democratic rights, the assault on social programs, and, in general, the entire policy of the American ruling class. Indeed, on all of these questions, the Democrats have facilitated the Republicans in carrying out a right-wing agenda.
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