Reply #25: Assuming you're not joking...how could you tell the difference?

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The occupation is being funded on BushCo's terms; constitutional freedoms are still disappearing with only token objections from democrats; the Senate voted 97 - 0 to accept BushCo's bullshit story on the justification for attacking Iran, so that'll probably happen soon (particularly since these madmen have now declared much of the Iranian army to be a terrorist organization); the infrastructure's going to hell and, by supporting BushCo's Iraq adventure and supplying the money needed to continue it, democrats have helped ensure that there's no money left over to fix it; China owns most of our paper and may call in the debt unless we keep buying their toxic shit; bankruptcies are on a record pace, yet the majority party does nothing about repealing that hideous bankruptcy bill written by credit card lobbyists...

You get the idea. Really, what the hell's the difference? It's not democrats vs republicans these days as much as it is corporatists vs humanists. It happens that the majority of republicans are corporatists, but so it seems are the democrats if voting records and sources of campaign dollars are any indicators. And then there's the DLC to keep democrats from getting too cozy with the needs of actual people when there are so many needy corporations out there begging for tax relief, regulatory favoritism and more no-bid contracts.

These corporate shills in both parties need to be replaced as quickly as possible. Find a candidate who represents progressive values running in the next Congressional or Senatorial primary, work hard for them and/or give them money, write lttes and op/ed pieces for local papers about them, boost their credibility at every opportunity and maybe some of them will actually win their primaries. If so, then repeat all above steps in the general election to try to keep slimy corporatist hands away from the levers of power in this country -- preferably for at least a thousand years, if humans can manage to hang around that long.


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