Reply #40: It's part of the DLC's plan to drive Democrats out of the party

[Aaaargh]

That is, they wish to rid themselves of the activists among traditional Democrats, and expecially those on the left, and rule over a docile membership that follows their lead.

See how, right now with the Alito vote pending and everything looking so discouraging, these little operatives on this forum start thread after thread, egging on those who say they're so angry at the spinelessness of the Democrats of the Senate that they want to leave the party?

DLCers like to claim to be "real" Democrats. But the question they can't answer convincingly is why they're Democrats at all. After all, there would be no reason for anyone who embraces the corporatist DLC agenda to choose the Democratic Party over the thoroughly corporatist Republican Party -- except to pursue the goal of neutralizing the party which traditionally has represented the interests of middle-class and working-class Americans.

Like it or not, our political system is structured to accommodate two major parties. If Republican-style corporatists can maintain control over the Democratic Party, those who stand in opposition to their goals will have no effective organization and apparatus to put up a fight from.

Despite all the disappointments and frustrations of our current situation, traditional Democrats would be FOOLS to abandon the structure of Democratic Party and go off wandering in the wilderness, trying to fight the corporatist political empire with sticks and stones.

The majority of ordinary Democratic party members and Democratic voters are traditional Democrats. Indeed, the majority of Americans, according to opinion polls, relate strongly to a traditional Democratic Party agenda. The party itself is extremely precious turf, and it belongs to us. Bleak as things may seem today, we traditional Democrats have a much better chance of regaining power over this government through fighting to take back the Democratic Party than by bailing out.

Don't take the bait. Do what the DLC DOESN'T want you to do: fight to take back the party that really belongs to you, and to all the ordinary Americans who, despite sometimes stumbling in the fog of corporate-media propaganda, fundamentally believe in those traditional Democratic Party values which are being betrayed by the big-money corruption of today's political milieu.