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In reply to the discussion: A call to holders of traditional Democratic ideals. [View all]FredStembottom
(2,928 posts)I am also one of the harsher critics of O and the Democrats.
I believe the D party is massively corrupted by campaign money. That considering a 3rd party is a response not out of line with the occassion.
I think we sit in the economic rubble that the Clinton admin. not only signed into law but, in the case of NAFTA, worked to achieve.
I believe the dis-unity in the D party is it's own fault. By dangling the solutions that desperate people need in front of their noses at campaign time while burying those same ideas after a win in favor of enacting traditional to even radical Republican policies.
I see Obama continuing along this same path even as we suffer.
BUT - I also feel that the only path to the policies we need is to save Dem seats at every election and determining to put better people in to them over time. The D party has been all kinds of things throughout our history. It can be changed yet again.
I see OWS beginning the change by, at least, forcing D's to address our suffering. That's very recent and new and good.
These things get me the hate mail. {winky guy smiley}