Reply #40: It doesn't. That's the point.

[sabrina 1]

We thought we were going to have some power by electing Democrats, a majority in both houses and the WH.

This is where we are.

Goldman Sachs is doing great.

50,000,000 Americans are on food stamps
Millions are still losing their jobs and as a result
Millions are losing their homes.

Billions are spent funding two wars for oil but
'There's not enough money to extend unemployment benefits'

No one was ever held accountable for the corruption that collapsed our economy and we have a bill going through Congress with so many loopholes that as Feingold says and most analysts agree, will not prevent this from happening again.

Economists are finally admitting what many ordinary people already knew 'we are in a depression'.

And that's just the economy.

The solution we are getting for 'reform' of, HC, Education, SS is MORE not less, privatization, strengthening and further enriching the rotten-to-the-core causes of most of our problems.

I could go on. But when you've exhausted all the means of gaining power, the question does arise 'what do we do now'?

To ignore the fact that the question is being asked, and to slam people for asking it, angry people, many out of work and facing homelessness, is definitely not the way to assure them they do have power. If the Dem Party wants to remain in power, they might start by reigning in their online supporters 'no matter what they do'. And they might start actually fighting for the people who elected them.

One way would be to use executive orders to help the starving families of America by extending UE benefits eg. Those people require an emergency intervention. Another would be to stop any more futile attempts at bi-partisanship and start working on our own party members. No support for anyone running in Nov if they vote with Republicans, is one way to do that.

And if they touch SS in order to push for privatization or extend the retirement age, if they don't appoint some progressives to their commissions to fight to save it from Wall St. gamblers, that will be the end of the Democratic Party for a long time, inho.

So, anyone who cares about the party ought to be whining, yelling, kicking and screaming to stop them from self-destructing because the other alternative is truly scary, and I personally will blame the Dem. Party if that's what we end up with.