It will always be an uphill battle for progressives and Democrats. We represent the underdog.

[Pushed To The Left]

The right wing represents the power structure. They represent wealthy and powerful people who have a lot of influence. They represent the big corporations who dominate our entire political process. Therefore, these powerful people and groups fight for the conservative movement with every dollar they can spend and every easily influenced brain they can wash. They have used their wealth to take over the airwaves, which is why talk radio has become dominated by a right wing Repubican ideology. Charismatic hosts hammer the minds of their minions to make them as closed as possible to any other way of thinking.

Who do you think is going to have the built-in advantage? Those who represent the underdog, or those who have the rich, powerful and influential on their side? Every progressive or Democratic victory is something to be excited about! We are not supposed to win. Powerful people spend a TON of money to keep it from happening. Yet, sometimes we do actually beat the odds and win!

What I'm trying to get across here is that we should never give up and that we should be proud of every progressive victory we achieve, no matter how small. We also need to do whatever it takes to defeat the right wing, because we know that they will do everything in their power to destroy us! The hardcore conservative movement is there to close minds, to protect the rich and powerful, and to use fundamentalist religion to get people to vote against their own self interests. The progressive movement needs to use everything at its disposal to defeat this monster we know as the conservative movement. If we can't kill or defeat the monster, we can sure as hell wound the damn thing!

[mrcheerful]

1. Point well taken. Some of us older folks remember what our grand parents told us about the

great depression and how corporate greed caused 90% of the problem of the stock market crash. The other 10% was the natural disaster of the dust bowl years where the farms in the mid west top soil dried up and blew away. Take a look around today, these same things my grand parents warned me of happening are happening again, only now the farmer no longer can escape to the factories in the cities. Instead of a natural disaster we have a man made one caused by the very same greed that was around in 1928, the more industrial base america loses to out sourcing the greater the risk of a depression that will make 1929 look like a picnic in the park. Truly as grand father predicted in 1989, america will be lost if republicans continue to rule.

Edited to change are to our.

[MasonJar]

2. The only solution is to take back the media and some way begin to

remind people that character is more important than riches. We must make being rich have its consequences too...in more contribution to the general good and in more philanthropic attitudes. To be just rich must be made to seem unseemly! It has happened before; it can again. Actually when one thinks about it what can one get with money but things? Are things more important than the earth itself? Are they more important than one's fellow man? Are they more important than living an honorable life. We progressives have allowed the corporate media to take over the conversation. WE MUST TAKE IT BACK! We have the LTTE pages; we have the phone lines; we have the internet; we can ban together to buy ads and billboards and etc.; we have resources too, y'all. We must start while Bush is playing with his brush in Crawford; we need to hit him while he is gone and hard and often. I'm game. Will you join me, DU?