Reply #115: Exactly right! The American people know they're getting screwed

[Cowpunk]

"If we do not tap into the justifiable anger sweeping across the nation, if we do not militantly push back against corporate fraud and imperial wars that we cannot win or afford, the political vacuum we have created will be filled with right-wing lunatics and proto-fascists."

This is something I've been trying to get across to people for a while. While some of the tea-baggers are nuts, most are not. They are angry with good reason but very misguided by right-wing propaganda. Calling them all nuts only strengthens the right wing's claim to populist anger. This anger is real and powerful and it will sink the Democratic party if they don't start to understand and use it.