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dreamnightwind Donating Member (863 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-20-10 05:44 PM
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1155. Policy not Party, please
I care about issues, not party. Our country has spiraled to the right and, more importantly, to the rich, since the late 70's, probably earlier. We're now having horrible problems that are still being looked at through an outdated single axis model (left-right, or D - R) when there's a more important second axis, corporate vs. people. The old model is little more than a tool used to distract people from what's really happening on the corporate axis.

In this regard, DU and its rules fail me. The rules are set up for D - R thinking. I should not have to worry when criticizing a corporate agenda whether its supporter has a D or an R after his/her name. On DU that's not the case. When it comes to people like Hamscher (FDL) who takes some good stands against traditional party alliance to fight corporate agendas, I can be in a position of opposing Democrats. Just one small example.

I'd much prefer an environment that allows free pursuit of progressive solutions to the problems we face and makes no assumption that supporting a politician calling themselves a Democrat is supporting progressive solutions. They're too often at odds, and I'd be grateful if DU could somehow come to terms with this in a way that allows us to call out corporate agendas wherever they exist. I'd also be grateful if those who do support Dems would see people like me as an ally rather than as an adversary. I know that most of them share my beliefs in the kind of changes this nation needs, we just differ on how to get there.
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