In my search for reasons as to the crumbling of the Democratic Party...

[King_Crimson]

I have boiled it down to this one basic point:

"COWARDICE''

We are a party split into WAY...WAYYYY...to many factions. The DLC, the DNC, the far left, the moderate and on and on. The putrifying scum on the right knows this and they like to segregate a portion at a time and launch their attacks...full force mind you...against the side they attack, knowing damn well the rest of the party will not aid the other. A perfect example is the recent mudwhumping they've launched against John Murtha. They did the same to Richard Clarke (who they have managed to relegate to sheer nothingness) and all you see are members of the Democratic Party want to distance themselves from these noble men who would but expose these Fascist pigs on the right for what they are...murderous, domineering thugs...and that is putting it mildly.
I remember seeing a photoshot during the 2000 recount of a group of these thuggish militant white males...four or five of them...surrounding a young girl carrying a Gore-Lieberman sign and she was in tears as ALL of them were right up in the poor things face screaming their obscenities. And not an indication ANYWHERE in her surrounding that any body was going to come to her aid.
I think Will Rogers said it the best... "I don't belong to any organized political party...I'm a Democrat." :headbang:

[ulysses]

1. that was Will Rogers

re: the quote. :)

[King_Crimson]

2. Whoops...

I knew that! :banghead:

[MarsThe Cat]

3. i don't think it's cowardice...it's corruption.

corruption of the elctoral process. everyone is beholden to the money men.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

4. I often simplify it in my mind by saying

that Democrats think and don't act while Republicans act and don't think.

That CAN translate into a continuum that on one end is cowardice and on the other is bullying.

I also think there is a strong female/male dynamic going on in the two parties. I think of Democrats as feminine and Republicans as masculine. (not literally, but figuratively)

[ArkDem]

5. Hey, got any more Twain quotes?

:rofl:

[King_Crimson]

7. As a matter of fact...

"To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals"

Mark Twain's Auotobiography

He was no fool either!:applause:

[leveymg]

6. If you want to see devolution, wait until the GOP's '06 upheaval.

They are going to be shattered by what happens next November. Then, the bloodletting will begin in earnest within the Republican ranks.

[Einstein99]

8. Only if the Democrats

offer a viable alternative. If not, it will be the same old shit. Amy Goodman was right on that one too.

[leveymg]

10. I'd vote for her!

President Goodman, 2008

[HereSince1628]

9. Better a crazy quilt than a bunch of conforming brownshirts

promoting xenophobia, global hegemony and subjugation or elimination of people with "different" beliefs.


Democrats have been the party that includes many groups with narrow interests for a long long time.

Look beyond the single issue factions to see the glue that unites them. It is a wonderful thing. It is the belief that Human Dignity is ever so much more valuable than Wealth.

[TahitiNut]

11. It's hard for partisans to "rally around the party flag" ...

.... when it's planted so close to the opposition's that it can't be seen. :shrug: