Reply #25: This link here is an example of what I see as the worst of the Democratic party.

[John Q. Citizen]

I'm not a pessimist, I'm an eternal optimist. Yet I'm not so optimistic about the party as a whole, as I am about say the progressive causcas, certain individual elected public servants, and the basic liberal opinions of a majority of the country on issues. No matter how people describe themselves politically, American opinion is liberal on the issues.

Earlier this year when I was researching our candidates views on issues, it amazed me to read the very detailed and thoughtful positions on the issues offered at Dennis Kucinich's web site. He is about as mainstream and in tune with a majority of Americans as it comes, on almost all the issues. You would never know this from reading/watching the Main Stream Corporate media, but if you check out the polling of say Pew Reseach, it quite obvious.

And that get into another area of discussion which the link deals with: It seems that the Democratic agenda isn't determined by their constituents anywhere near as much as by the corporate media. People realize intuitively their consent is often manufactored, but they feel powerless to get around it.

Anyway, here's the link. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3418039