Reply #26: Sadly, I think this is it for me

[Oak2004]

The only answer for American workers in many, perhaps most parts of the country is to break with the Dems. There simply isn't enough time left to redeem most state parties, let alone the national, from within, and in the absence of a credible third party no pressure can be brought from without (Vermont is one of our few counterexamples because VT Democrats have a healthy fear of the VT Progressive Party-- the party Bernie founded and really belongs to, though in order to join a congressional caucus he must, officially, be an independent).

I'd like to have hope otherwise. I really would. That's why I'm here-- change from the inside is always preferable to change from the outside. Please, feel free to argue with me otherwise, as I would like to be persuaded otherwise. Perhaps there's life left in the party in corners of the country I'm not aware of. But right now all I see is Republicans proposing sociopathic insanity, and Democrats saying "me too", but not before first getting elected by turning to the rest of us and saying "see, vote for me, cause the scary guy over there will do that bad thing to you one election cycle sooner than I will". The plutocrats pulling the strings must be laughing at our futility. And all the while, the clock for our economy, our society, our civilization, and our environment is at a minute to midnight, five minutes tops. How does one both reform the Democratic Party and start to rescue our nation in (a metaphorical) thirty seconds flat?

Since I have no more hope for the Democratic Party, and since, as someone who has herself operated and set policies for a major website, I respect the policies of this site, this is it for my web home of ~6 years. More time for my business, I suppose. And there's always FDL if I can't break my netroots addiction so easily.