Reply #4: only two options: reform dems or new party

[yurbud]

starting a new party and getting it to critical mass could take a couple of presidential election cycles and in the mean time, the GOP could further consolidate their iron grip on the levers of power. And not enough people may see the need for the third party, so we could end up being the spoiler.

Reforming the dems has slightly better odds, but we have to do to the corporate apologists what the GOP has done to moderate and sane republicans--show them the door.

The best way to do this is to swear off corporate money, and pledge to never interfere with a regulatory agency on behalf of a donor.

They also need to nail the revolving door shut between the public sector and the parts of the private sector they oversee. If you work at the Pentagon, you can't go to work for a defense contractor.

Another important step is to say we will never overthrow directly or indirectly an elected government to benefit an American oil company, sweatshop or plantation owner. That would do more to stop terrorism than all the Iraqs we kill and other Arabs strip naked and hang by their ankles.