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"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."
"Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans."
It seems the only time we do get organized, it's some corporate takeover and sham that turns us into GOP-lite. That's what makes the Democratic Party divided, keeps voters away from the polls and emboldens our enemies on the right.
This recent teabagger take over wasn't because their ideas or mantra appeal to the majority. It was because that same corporate media that grew from the Clinton impeachment and Ken Starr Chamber, that cheered on the invasion of Iraq and gives us false choices within a set of boundaries that are more to the right than the majority.
Because the nation is being bathed with the corporate view 24/7, and I do mean that, and in every venue, as they've taken over and present really only one view, it makes people who would otherwise resist think they are a minority. They aren't, they just can't get a reflection of their views to remind and encourage them as we once had with the Fairness Doctrine.
Without a gun to our head, we have succumbed to the brainwashing. So have our representatives. Or if they don't, they are called radicals, communists, crazy or whatever to shut them up. We know this in our hearts, but many don't and they believe the reality being sold here.
We must think things out. The media simply made everyone disgusted with Obama and the Democrats who were trying to fulfill the true mandate they were given. They made all of us who want a progressive future for America and the world think it was never going to happen.
So many of the things that Obama campaigned on and failed, were from the razor thin majority he had in place. It appears that people forgot the GOP fighting tooth and nail to keep Franken from being seated, the treachery of Joe Liebermann, and other things that made the majority really hard to do things. Obama campaigned on closing Gitmo. But change has to be funded, and the GOP refused to allow the shut down. Then THEIR media spun it as a broken promise. That's just one example.
Even the overwhelming negativity that many Democrats feel toward Obama was fed by the same media that the GOP owns, lock, stock and barrel. After a while, those who wanted what we voted for, felt ashamed to ask for it. Such is the power of the corporate media that has made the words the liberal, socialist and progressive, union, public or Democrat curse words.
They've turned ideas in search of solutions to human problems into moralist pejoratives, shutting down their fellow humans for daring to think, even if confused or wrong or misguided, into evil things worthy of death. So they've enacted a form of internalized thought police on anyone who is a free thinker.
They've screwed up the meaning of life with their pro-life mantra, only for the unborn. All other forms of life are worthless and those unborn babies once born are evil if they don't conform.
They aren't the least bit ashamed of marching lock-step over people and the planet. To them, our tolerance and seeking justice for all is feminine and weak, even unGodly according to their hideous belief system.
We're just all over the place, look at the cat fighting that goes on, although I blame the uber-conventionalists (okay, not a word) who support whatever corporate media says is the outrage or cause du jour and attacks anyone who dares to not go along. I've met some really strange Democrats here, who go after those who question the corporatist media as harshly as O'Reilly or Beck or Rush.
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