Democrats Boosting Right-Wing Populism

[Joanne98]

by Norman Solomon

In his triumphant speech on election night, the next senator from Massachusetts should have thanked top Democrats in Washington for all they did to make his victory possible.

For a year now, leading Democrats have steadily embraced more corporate formulas for "healthcare reform." In the name of political realism, they have demobilized and demoralized the Democratic base. In the process, they've fueled right-wing populism.

The Democratic leadership on healthcare and so much else -- including bank bailouts, financial services, foreclosures and foreign policy -- has been so corporate that Republicans have found it easy to play populist.

Fixated on passage of something that could be called "healthcare reform," the Democratic establishment has propagated the myth that enacting such a law is vital to the political viability of the Obama presidency.

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/20-0

[fascisthunter]

1. and yet he and his admin will just deny this is the case

arrogance and a massive disconnect with the American People and reality itself.

[Bitwit1234]

2. By the way

since brown won, has any body else but me got myraid emails requesting money for every single different democratic organization, and a heck of lot I never heard of...every email, wants money. None tell how they are going to shore up the party. How they are going to work for the people, they want M-O-N-E-Y!!!!!!!!!! guess what they ain't gonna get any.

[Faryn Balyncd]

3. This is important.

k and r




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