It is time to purge the corporatist from the Democratic power structure. The real work of the Democratic Party is done by grassroots activists. These activists are the Democratic Party. They should run it at every level.
President Obama better recognize as the young people say;
Obama still has not learned that the Obama Movement that put him in the White House was not really about Obama. It was about a set of progressive policies that constituted “change we can believe in.”
If he doesn't believe it he should ask his buddy and soon to be ex 7th district Congressman Artur Davis how throwing the base under the bus worked out for him.
Union activists, progressives and environmentalists are the majority of foot soldiers that go to battle for Democratic candidates at every level in every community of the nation. Along with civil rights leaders, civil libertarians, peace activists and the progressive Internet community, these activists give more money to elect Democrats than every corporation combined.
Stop the learned helplessness! We are right (pun intended) and they are as wrong as the intelligence (for lack of a better word) that took us to war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We need to return to the values of FDR and the New Deal. We need to capture every Democratic Party office and drive out the corporatist. The Democratic Party is a much better institution because we drove out the Southern racist faction (and the northern one) and we need to do the same with the corporatist.
The democratic party has been re-infiltrated, some call it demanding party purity, I call it demanding party loyalty. To para quote George W-ar Bush, Yer either wit us democrats or yer not. You decide.
The Tea Party crowd has been captured and in some cases created by corporate forces. They cannot be the populist engine for “change you can believe in” but you and your friends can be that populist engine. Get angry, get active and fight corporatism regardless of political party.
I'm fed up and fired up. What about you?
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