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In reply to the discussion: A Short Note On The Democratic Party And The Progressive Left.... [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)Truly I popped off because it's so terrible here in NC and such a shock that we have some really crazy people...(such as you describe..shadows of Joe McCarthy) who managed to win elections and take over the NC House and Senate as majority for first time in 150 years! We had disarray and some scandal in the Dem Party at the top that didn't help us....but the money that poured in from Alec and Koch Bros. plus a local RW businessman who has been working on getting TeaPartiers and Religious fanatics elected in the fasion of the late Jesse Helms. He was beaten back when the traditional Dems and Activist Dems worked together in 2004. The reason everything went downhill was the Money! Citizens United and the Koch and Alec aligned with the RW Businessman and then the lack of money from Dem Party and Obama Activists after 2008. We sorely needed money and effort from the Obama Organization...but it didn't come and the problems with our Dem Governor and Party Chair allowed the Repugs to undo in short time all we had accomplished.
We are working hard on countering this but it's so damned discouraging thinking about starting from scratch. And many of the older Southern Dems who held the party together are dying off...and so we need the Activists. We are working hard on getting the College Students involved and registered. They are our Dem hope and the Repugs changed the voting law to try to stop them from being able to vote in the elections. Rachel Maddow even did a show from NC about this.
The hopeful thing is that even the Business Community is getting worried about the way the State looks from outside and worried they might not be able to attract business here because not only the RW Crazy stuff but the whole school system was taken over by the Charter School and "Teach to Test" Michelle Rhee activists...and the Alec and Koch money poured into that also.
People are waking up (which is good) because it's been so disruptive and a shock to even Republicans how aggressively short sighted and backward looking most of these
"New Republicans" are are starting to make noise. But, the fact remains we don't have enough Democratic money to fight back against the Push Polls, Glossy Campaign Literature and changes in the voting procedures doing away with early voting, fewer accessible polling places and multiple forms of identification or picture voting card.
We have less than two years to turn them out.....We've got to do it.
Anyway...so good to hear of the progress you've made in NY. We have a Fracking Battle coming up in our future.. I know the work you've done on that in NY. We have some good people already on it and hopefully given all the hell that's broken loose here...we will put up a good fight on that.