Is the Democratic Party about to be radicalized?

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Its just a feeling I get. People are showing their outrage more and more at BOTH parties at their inability/unwillingness to get tough on these blatantly corrupt bastards that have stolen the government. Many of those who are blowing the whistle on the fascists are conservatives in name. Wilkerson's interview on McNeil Lehrer snooze hour last night really hammered the "cabal". I have never seen a better Newshour than that one, a more coherent and harder hitting criticism of Bush by anybody on either side of the aisle. Many of the early whistleblowers were Repugs as well. Yet, we have the democrats wimping and waffling as the standard MO.

WTF is going on???

I think that Neo-liberalism is the fundamental problem that goes a long way to explaining this weirdness. For instance Bill Clinton and GHW Bush were, or are, both members of the Trilateral Commission which is a think tank and advocate of neo-liberalism, free trade, BS. Sometimes I think that the Repugs are the shock troops that advance a resource grab, like Iraq and then the dems come in to quell the dissent. Why for instance does Bill Clinton and other dems treat Hugo Chavez like a doormat? I get the sense that Chavez will be treated the same way should a democrat win the White House, though maybe not with threats of invasion and subterfuge. What gets me is that Kerry and others said he wants to "win" in Iraq. What does that mean?

Neo-liberalism is rooted in an expansionist mentality and it has come down to utter disaster. It doesn't work anymore, we have to start playing a different game or we will just go the way of all other empires in history. Maybe people are starting to realize this.


No doubt we have the ability. It seems reasonable that we could develop alternatives to fossil fuels, the technology is there, even the businesses are established marketing alternatives like wind, solar etc. What if we had put the 300 billion + we are spending in Iraq on oil we aren't going to get and spent it on solarizing 20 million US homes? But the problem is the fossil fuel and nuke power interests are not going to go quietly into the night and are adept at keeping alternatives from restricted.

Just some thoughts. Please comment