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Some of us believe the worst outcome imaginable is continuing to prop up this failed system and the ping ponging between two establishment parties who disagree only within the boundaries set by the financial elite.
The cost of actually challenging structural injustice would be high. It may mean some darker days. And yes, it might even mean that some even more terribly politicians slip into positions of power amidst the turmoil. But ending the cowardice and finding the courage to stand up for principles of social and economic justice is the only way to end our long defeat.
Of course if you're white and comfortably middle or upper class and drowning in privilege, you may not be real interested in confronting structural economic exploitation and injustice. Just electing corporate capitulating democrats and re-inflating the economic bubble probably works for you.
But for the rest of us, the status quo of this society is unacceptable. We're willing to fight back by demanding democratic candidates that stand on principles of economic justice. And we're willing to accept some defeats in the short run as we struggle to clean out corporate capitulating Democrats and elect those who stand with workers rather than rulers.
The thread of a republican victory if we don't vote for democratic candidates that put the whims of the financial elite ahead of the needs of the people doesn't care us. Because guess what, when your ship is sinking it doesn't really matter if one party does a better job at arranging the deck chairs than the other party. There are differences between the parties yes - but only within the narrow framework of acceptable "debate" as defined by money and power. The framework of acceptable debate is a framework that completely benefits rulers and marginalizes workers.
That must change. And we can be marginalized under Democrats or marginalized under Republicans and it doesn't really matter that much. The only thing that matters is destroying the corporate stranglehold over the Democratic Party, refusing to continue kissing the establishment whip and demanding better representatives who will honor workers and practice economic justice.
Fear that things might get worse just isn't a sufficient deterrent to radical activism and action on behalf of true social and economic justice. Things are already intolerable. And the won't get sufficiently better if we just keep supporting the status quo. On the other hand, if we have the courage to accept the potential of things getting worse in the short run, we also create the potential for things to be better beyond anything currently possible in the long run.
That's worth fighting for. And there's no amount of fear mongering that would possibly convince us to vote for candidates that don't represent our interests and screw our family, friends and neighbors. Is that clear? There's nothing you can say that will scare us into not fighting for the society we deserve.
If democrats take the position of corporate capitulating, hawkish, poverty shunning, wall street cock sucking fools, and then lose an election to Sarah Palin, the rest of us will be putting the blame where it appropriately belongs - on the Democratic Party that sold the American people out, not on the American people that stopped allowing themselves to be exploited.
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