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(32,139 posts)and focus on wedge issues that divide us, rather than noticing how the two parties are quietly working together on the most important economic, war, and police state issues.
In most major policy areas, the two parties are in terrifying agreement. It is well past time that Democrats and Republicans stop taking the bait to blindly despise each other and instead open our eyes to actual policy and how we are ALL being sold out by our corporate owners.
We will never have the strength and numbers to stop what is being done to us until we can agree that the real battle is between all of us and the banks and corporations who are now driving policy in both parties.
Our party is now actively complicit with Republicans in advancing the agenda of the one percent:
Obama, Democrats Push to Make Bush Spying Laws Permanent
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022084702
The Enemy Expatriation Act - another attack on legitimate protest and dissent like NDAA
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022072450
FBI Investigated 'Occupy' As Possible 'Domestic Terrorism' Threat, Internal Documents Show
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022061578
NDAA 2013 - Indefinite detention without trial is back
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014342985
Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014348022
Democratic-controlled US Senate approves...new $633 billion war bill
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022060449
Purposely aiming bombs at children: "It kind of opens our aperture."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021931748
The Pentagon's New 30,000-lb MOP Bomb Is Ready To Go
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022200058
Obama Administration To Offer More Than 20 Million Acres in Western Gulf of Mexico for Oil/Drilling
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1896005
Obama's (Corporate) Education Reform Push is Bad Education Policy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x221922
Obama's 'Race To The Top' Drives Nationwide Wave of School Closings, Teacher Firings
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2183810
Trans Pacific Partnership is NAFTA On Steroids
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1914478
NYT slams the government for choosing not to prosecute HSBC top-bankers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021965407
Why is Social Security Under Attack from Obama, when it ADDS NOTHING to the deficit???
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022065493
Obama: "Too many of us have been interested in defending programs as written in 1938."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid
Surely every American must realize any cuts hereinafter made to social security, Medicare, or Medicaid...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022191730
Health insurers raising rates by double digits
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014358823
The Democratic Party's Deceitful Game
http://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/democrats_34/
It's well past time to give up the illusion of what we are really facing here. We are under assault by corporatists who pretend to represent us, and we had better figure out what we are going to do about it, because change is not coming from those who claim to be on our side.