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Wars and conflicts Parties International USA
Iraq War going to hell, with U.S casualties approaching 2000 dead and 25,000 wounded, at a cost of $200 billion and rising.
Poverty in America on the rise in a period of supposed economic growth.
Republican Party a cesspool of corruption.
White House being investigated for outing undercover CIA agent.
Abortion rights under serious threat and civil liberties on the chopping block, with the Supreme Court being packed with right-wing judges.
New Orleans, just drying out from disastrous flood, being raped by White House-linked corporate pirates and scam artists.
Budget deficit topping half trillion dollars.
Gas and heating oil crisis looming, while oil companies reap record profits.
Bush poll numbers hit historic low as even some Republicans abandon him as an incompetent.
Oh yeah-all this and global warming and the end of human life as we know it.
Man, if you were an opposition politician looking to make a run for Congress next years, or for president in 2008, this would be a magical time.
But where’s the opposition?
The media tell us that the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008 are Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Bill Richardson and maybe John Kerry.
What all these people have in common is their deafening silence on all the issues of importance facing Americans and America.
Not one dared show her or his face at the record demonstration against the Iraq War held in front of the White House last weekend.
None has spoken out on the Republican corruption scandals.
None has called for a public program to hire all the displaced of New Orleans to put them to work rebuilding the destroyed city. Instead, they are allowing Bush and the Republican Congress, with the acquiescence of Louisiana’s corrupt local Democratic Party, to bring in speculators and the same profiteers who have been sucking up the reconstruction money in Iraq.
None has offered a plan to attack the U.S. deficit and the hollowing out of the American economy.
None of these "leading opposition candidates" has even taken any kind of strong stand on global warming-for example calling for a tax surcharge on low-mileage cars and trucks and strict limits on carbon emissions by power plants plus a crash program to develop alternative energy sources.
The truth is that when it comes to the Democratic Party, the purported opposition party, there is no there there. It no longer exists.
You’d think the sorry experience of the last two presidential campaigns, where two Democratic candidates, Al Gore and John Kerry, ran spineless, uninspired campaigns that managed to avoid taking a progressive stand on any critical issue of the day, and predictably went down to defeat, dragging Democrats in Congress down with them, would have been a lesson: political cowardice and wedge issue pandering has no future.
Yet here we are five years into the Bush presidency, with Republicans imploding on their own greed and ineptness, and the Democrats are still afraid of their shadows.
Unless someone comes forward soon with an inspired progressive agenda, it’s probably time to let the Democratic Party go the way of the Whigs.
Simply letting the Republicans flounder will not win a single election, much less the race for the White House.
It used to be said that pulling the lever for a third party candidate was wasting your vote. These days, voting for a Democrat is wasting a vote.
Forum posts
30 September 2005, 04:34
The Dems have been taken over by Repuke moles. The DLC aren’t Repuke-lites, they are Repukes. DLC advisors are literally professional election losers, that’s their job. Kerry performed his job, he lost. A few Dems are still independent, some are weak, some are compromised and some are dead. Did they kill Ernst Hollings’ daughter to control Hollings?
DONTVOTEITONLYVALIDATESASCAM
30 September 2005, 05:25
Obviously what you say is true, but you should still vote....in the primary register as a repuke and vote for the new guy to remove support from the incumbent. In the general vote for the independent or green....we may not win, but we sure will fuck up their perfect plans.
30 September 2005, 06:03
sorry, but you people can’t see the forest for the trees, as the saying goes. what you see on the daily news is not what is occurring. the fact of the matter is that powerfull financial combines control most of the world’s resources. they set prices, agree on what country to exploit, what politicians to buy out, ship them out, then control the country. it’s unrestrained financial power by power mad people that has the planet in the state it’s in. do they care about depleted uranium used in their’wars’, hell no. God help us all!!!!
30 September 2005, 07:41
Mooreover there is mounting evidence that the American lifestyle - consumption and dumption - does not fit the environment anymoore. Those who dream they can escape by using bio-fuel - ridiculous. Greenhouse gase have already ruined the world oceans, each dollar invested in China by greedy share holder institution will accellerate the process. So, dream ahead this can be fixed by a political system, while you don’t have to change the underlying economic structure.
To bad, that Americans are so st..., let’s say uneducated.