Now this is a Democrat with the GUTS to fight Re...

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S

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:22:35 -0700 (PDT)

Now this is a Democrat with the GUTS to fight Re...

 

 

 

 

 

What an excellent statement, packing such power in so

few words. Thank you for sharing it. Equally

powerful, darkly evocative of betrayal as it is, are

Sharin's words: " He should have every damned democrat

standing there with him. Haven't they figured out yet

that we need them altogether to show solidarity and

prove they are working together? "

 

For a long time I lived in denial that the Democratic

party was no longer my party. After all, they were

better than the neocon Republicans and besides, they

were all we had. What I was doing was maintaining a

sense of dichotemy, and when I heard " extremists " (and

some are) say there is no difference between the

parties, I became defensive. Anybody but Bush. Am

still in that mode and yet the edges of defense for

Democrats are gone.

 

The most recent numbers say that 62 percent of the

population now think Iraq was a mistake. Whether they

speak from moral commitment or determination that the

so-called " war " is unwinnable, they are speaking. The

majority does NOT want this war. Yet last Saturday,

when three to five hundred thousand people went to the

trouble to trek to DC and march for peace, that group

that has allowed us to call it our liberal wing --

Hillary, Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, and others --

refused to support the march.

 

The march was representative of what most of the

country wants, and this majority had one elected

official to stand up with them -- Cynthia McKinney.

 

As a child I was taught that one of the evils of

communism was that it was a one-party system. Every

day now I come closer to seeing that THIS country has

a one-party system. The so-called elections, rigged

or not, are the equivalent of primaries. If one were

held today, we might fight for a place for Cynthia,

but we'd be hard put to find another to represent us

unless we wanted to cross over and grab Chuck Hagel.

 

When both parties (and there ARE differences; the

Democrats would not have tried to get rid of social

security; but then, there are differences in

candidates in the primaries, though they come from the

same pot) refuse to listen to the people, we simply

HAVE no party, and we ARE that one-party country we

were warned about.

 

Hinchey couldn't get the Democrats to stand beside him

and support the Four any more than we could get a few

senators to support the huge peace march. Pulling ALL

the strings are the corporations, and we no longer

have anything left but to either choose lesser evils

or drop out.

 

The concept is almost too huge to accept: We have

NOBODY BUT OURSELVES. I don't know how to do it; to

think of it frightens me. But the days of getting

what the majority wants at the ballot box are over.

Whatever we do, it is now the people vs the

corporations, and it will take an adrenalin never seen

before for the people to truly take them on.

 

L.

 

 

 

 

 

--- S..... wrote:

 

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> In a message dated 9/27/2005 7:12:39 A.M. Pacific

> Daylight Time,

 

 

 

> Speaking of the four protesters who spilled their

> own blood at a military

> recruiting center, Hinchey said " what they were

> protesting was the conspiracy

> of the Administration of George W. Bush to bring

> about an attack and then an

> occupation of the country of Iraq, and as a result

> making the world a much

> more dangerous and difficult place than it was prior

> to those actions. "

> " It is that conspiracy, " he added, " that conspiracy

> which has now been

> documented by among other things official British

> documents called the Downing

> Street Memo which are communications between the

> highest ranking officials of

> the British government †" the head of the British

> Intelligence, the foreign

> officer, the prime minister himself. "

>

>

> WOW. He should have every damned democrat standing

> there with him. Haven't

> they figured out yet that we need them altogether to

> show solidarity and prove

> they are working together? S.

>

>

 

 

 

 

> " People join the military to defend their country,

> not lies. "

>

> Adam Reuter, 22-year-old Georgia resident

> who was given a medical discharge from the Army four

> months ago.

> Washington DC Protest, September 24, 2005

>