Reply #8: "We are way past the D=good and others=bad" - right, but this is critical:

[Political Heretic]

It should not be seen as threatening to DU.

This is what concerns me. The first thing that united people at DU was, I believe, principles. Bush was elected, and we were watching a full war on working class America, and we didn't choose to think too much about Democrats because they "weren't in power." It was easy to criticize such obvious anti-ordinary-American policy. And it was easy to see Republican's true alligiances and agenda because those have been highly transparent for decades or more.

But now things are different, and we are at a real crossroads. What I think we're seeing is the reality that the problems with our political system transcend having the "wrong party" in power. With Democrats controlling every branch of government, we still see powerful privileged interests served first, with working America an afterthought. Much business has continued on as usual.

The critical thing to understand is that we can't talk about Democrats as a single entity. There are some people in Washington who are fighting hard for the American people, and they often have (D)s after their name. We can celebrate that. But we must acknowledge the extreme number of Democrats who have sold out the people and serve wealthy interests instead. They take corporate money by the barrel full, they suck-up to wall street, k-street, and the MIC at every turn - mostly likely out of a sense of self-preservation ("I must do this to stay elected") but the effect is just the same - the betrayal of the interests of the majority of American people.

This ought to bother us, and it ought to bother us more than the insanity of Republicans, because Republicans by and large, aren't pretending to be about the business of working America. And even if they are, people on the left are not fooled by their shtick. Too many people are fooled by politicians who slap a (D) after their name and serve corporate masters. They might have some dream that they could both please those masters and get some work done for ordinary Americans - but in every case where those interests confict (which is most cases,) it is the American people who suffer, not big business or privileged interests.

Enough is enough. You're right we are way past D=good and others=bad. But that must not be confused with having some agenda against democrats generally. It's not about being "against" Democrats. It's about being FOR the American working class and against WHOEVER is standing in the way of working class interests.