Updating this with a great comment from Alma
I’m tired of the media, and parties telling us (4.00 / 1)
who is electable. It’s time we told them who is electible, and acceptable, to us. It’s time to move the party to the left and the best way to do that is for the far left (Me & many here, I think), to go even farther if possible, as loudly as we can.
I really can’t take it anymore. All this hooting and hollering about how the Dems are capitulators. I mean Congress overrode Bush’s veto of a water projects bill… and although it’s the first time they’ve done it in almost seven years, still it’s something isn’t it? No? You think maybe there could be more…
Hell yes. I have to tell you I have felt so empty and flat since it became clear that Democrats don’t really exist. It was like coping with the overwhelming concept that there is no Santa Claus… or that maybe heaven doesn’t even exist. Crushing.
Well rage and rant all you want. Here’s a course of action, should any of the netroots really have any balls:
GET BEHIND A CANDIDATE LIKE KUCINICH. That’s right kos, buhdy, MSOC, digby, et al. Go ahead. Do something totally ballsy. Put it all on the line. It’s time to flex some muscle, that is if we really have any. But pissing and moaning about the Dems is NOT my idea of doing something. In response to Armando’s Netroots Identity Crisis: Act 2:
No, Major Danby, we are NOT Harry Reid. We are the Left flank of the Democratic Party. And when the Left flank of the Party dedicates itself to rationalizing capitulation (whatever its merits in a specific instance for the people doing the capitulating) then you become nothing but an enabling arm of the Beltway Dems.
As far as i can tell, there is no left flank of the Democratic Party, much less a Democratic Party.
It’s Political Party Major and Political Party Minor. And the only difference I can discern is that the Minor Party is more willing to invest a teeny tiny amount of our taxes into programs that may actually benefit us (but really just to pacify us)
This is all ridiculous.
You want to make some waves? how about all the lefty blogs start shouting in unison support of Kucinich. I can’t think of a more out-of-the beltway figure to scare the bejesus out ALL the politicians
We have power in the netroots? We’re the left flank? Then let’s rock this fucking boat
Otherwise, we are the ones capitulating. It’s time for us to make a stand.
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let’s make a move… it’s up to us
UFO thing freaked people out, no different that other myths that get full support in this society.
Kucinich, nobody wants to endorse him because he’s viewed as being out of the mainstream and unelectable and therefore a choice lacking in pragmatism. Pragmatism has been the tactic of the Dems and in some cases it can chip away at your soul. It is also the way you get middle America on your side and win.
In the end, I don’t know.
I assure that when I figure out an effective way to make a stand I shall…and I’ll even let you guys in on it!
I am far from convinced that ME backing Kuch is a real stand…though it would be if kos did it…..hahahahahahahahahahaha!
I am mentally outlining my strategy to try to make a difference, when I have enough of an inkling I’ll write on it.
In the meantime….I might take one more shot at pushing impeachment if the iron stays hot into next week.
Sorry, but it’s all I got right now!
is the Basque word for ‘cool, Jackson’
It’s not a typo for admirable, really!
when I returned from the UK to a new US state of residence. That privilege gets me assigned election judge wherever there’s a need. So I’m not changing registration for primaries, not while Diebold is in place. Otherwise, I’d vote for an outlier.
I could still canvass or phonebank for Dem outlier. Throughout January. Brrr. But, sadly, I’m not highly motivated. I can just as happily run off the party ticket in the general. The slate is dead to me.
https://services.myn…
That’s a link for donations to his campaign. The link’s also at the top on the front page of his campaign site.
Go Dennis!
http://dennis4presid…
Choose Peace!
I agree with you 100%.
no Santy Claus? Excuse me for a minute while I puke.
While there, and horses were presented, there was this one horse who struck me, lotsa’ of character in stature and spirit — he was a “longshot.” I’m not much of a better, but I went and placed a $2.00 bet on that horse and would you believe, he came in!
If Americans could only get over the “superficial qualities,” i.e., and perceive what’s best beyond charisma, looks, etc., we just might pick ourselves a winner.
Thanks, pfiore8!
Are the electorate and the corporate media willing to see underneath what they perceive is a ratty kind of veneer and support him? I seem kind of like I’m playing around here but there’s a serious question underneath, as it were.
it is about forming a cohesive base of power within the only political party that is open to us. The more support he has the more direct power in Washington the progressive left will have.
In case you don’t know it power does not reside necessarily within an office which is often just a focal point for negotiations between real power players. Elections are over-estimated as a source of power. Money and the ability to apply force to a given situation is power. AIPAC, for example has way more power than any Senator, Congressman or, even, political party at least as far as politics in the middle-east is concerned–Miami Cubans have more power over Cuba policy than the U.S. Senate. Organized crime (and I don’t mean the obsolete American version of the “mafia”) has more power than Congress I include here drug lords, smugglers, arms dealers, “contractors” stealing from the gov’t, corrupt officials, mercenaries, black operatives, human traffickers and so on. If you don’t believe me on the last one just ask which country we occupy provides nearly all the heroin to the world and just what is the route that heroin takes to get to market and just who looks the other way and why–you can see the testimony of Sibel Edmunds for a hint of what that is about.
In short, fuck elections, we need a power base–a small power base is better than none. Diffusing our support to people who are in employ of the oligarchy when we don’t have to is useless. Then we can live with whoever is in the Oval Office but he or she will have to watch his back if he knows 20% of the people support Kucinich–otherwise why bother with us?
People will not back someone or something they don’t think is going to win. They won’t watch TV shows that don’t get good ratings. Doing what is right is not as important as winning and being successful. Everyone and everything that is ahead of its time is usually unpopular and dismissed. We are so used to having instant gratification we are not willing to get on the ground floor of a movement that will grow to better humanity only after years of struggle and disappointment.