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Edited on Sun Jan-23-05 11:38 AM by Q
Right & Wrong is left out of the Moderate New Democratic Lexicon
The Democratic party has been usurped by those who call themselves New Democratic 'moderates' and 'pragmatists'. They have not only taken control of the Democratic agenda...but are waging a cultural war within the party where those seeking to right the many wrongs of the Bush junta and their enablers are branded as 'radical', 'far-left', 'purist' and 'idealist'.
The New Democrats would have you believe that you're being a purist for wanting a government that serves the people instead of itself, isn't corrupt, in bed with corporations and the church and use our citizens as canon fodder for unnecessary wars.
The New Democratic moderates don't want you to look behind the curtain of their rhetoric of compromise, concession, capitulation and moral relativism. They want you to accept their 'strategy' of cooperating with the Bush government for the 'good of the party and our nation'.
They want you to believe that you're being a purist if you criticize Democrats who vote with the Bush government against the interests of America and its citizens. They'll call you a radical for complaining that too many Democrats have colluded with the Bush government to pass some of the most extreme, anti-democratic legislation in the history of our nation. They want you to scream at Bush and ignore the fact that many in YOUR own party are helping him work outside the Constitution and international law.
But we are AMERICANS first and Democrats second. We have a duty and obligation to weed out the corruption in our own party as well as that of the opposition. A Democrat who votes with the Bush government becomes an enabler or collaborator and is as much to blame as the Bushies.
Please don't be fooled into believing that you are out of the 'mainstream' for opposing bad legislation and policy...whether it's supported by Republicans or Democrats. Don't fall for their doublespeak that the Iraq invasion and occupation is both good and bad at the same time. Or that citizens must give up the Bill of Rights in order to fight a war on terror against faceless enemies.
Some Democratic politicians have become part of the problem and not the solution. Don't ever give up on the fight to make them responsible for each and every vote they use to enable Bush's crusade to tear our country apart and rebuild it in the Neocon image. And don't allow the Enablers to make you feel guilty for understanding the difference between right and wrong, moral and immoral.
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