Rachel Maddow: "... you have to stop making stuff up."

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52. Thank you for the intelligent reply...

Anger would be the wrong word. Disappointment would be more like it. In that Democrats are engaged in their own hubris. That, despite what so many Democrats say they believe, based on all that information out there that they knew about. Sitting their glued to the information highway, parsing the data, etc.

That not enough of them live up to what they say they believe. That many still sit around doing, effectively, nothing. Helping to continue the status quo. Crowing about the decline of the Republican Party in the face of an illusory Democratic juggernaut. All the while being led down the same path that Bush was leading them down.

It was interesting with OWS. Obama wins by five million votes, what... sixty-three million voters who voted Democratic? Where were those sixty-three million Democrats when OWS was getting started? Where are those sixty-three million voters protesting Obama and his policies? Where were those sixty-three million Democrats when Obama decided not to investigate war crimes from the previous Administration? Where are those sixty-three million voters protesting the decline of Main Street as Wall Street consumes more of America's (and hence, the Democratic voter's) wealth? Where are those sixty-three million voters protesting the continuation of Afghanistan? Drone wars? Government spying? Whistle blowers being jailed? Demanding transparency from one of the most opaque Administration's in history?

You know where those Democratic voters were and are? Voting for all the above. And more. Drone wars. Afghanistan. Government spying. Executive assassination. Fraudclosure, the continuation of. Income inequality. Voting 'no' to single-payer health care. Voting for a President - a Democratic President - who put Social Security and Medicare on the table for cuts. Wall Street bailouts and TBTF. And all the above. Things the "progressive" Democrat claim to be against. They seem to be voting for all of this quite a lot.

And then to call themselves Democrats and Progressives. Hypocrisy. Pure, unadulterated hypocrisy. There is a difference between what a person says and does. Democrats - in effect, the New Republicans - judging by what the Democratic Party has come to represent; they need to stop saying and start doing. All sixty-three million of them.

They need to stop being fauxgressives and start doing. The first step is to realize that they have a serious problem, among many. One, that their actions do not match their words. That would be a good start.

On a side note, what would America be like under a single-party system?