Now do you understand why so many of us termed our vote as being for the lesser of two evils?

[bvar22]

129. I used to ridicule Working CLass people who voted against their economic interests...

...by voting for a Republican,
...ridicule without mercy.
NOW, I routinely vote AGAINST my own Economic Interests because the Republicans are WORSE?

I have voted AGAINST my own Economic Interests since 1992 by voting FOR "Centrist" Democrats.
Over those years, Loss after Loss, declining wages, continued transfer of Wealth TO the Rich, destruction of LABOR, Consolidation and Conglomeration of Wealth & Power at the very TOP, Shifting of the Tax Burden to the Working Class, dismantling of the Working Class, Death by a Thousand Cuts to the New Deal and the Great Society.....
I have finally reached the point where I don't HAVE any "Economic Interests" except the preservation of Social Security and Medicare.

One of the problems is that you have to be pretty OLD to remember a time when a REAL Democrat was president.
I hated LBJ with a purple passion for The WAR,
but he WAS a REAL Democrat.
He acted and sounded like a REAL Democrat,
and the programs of the Great Society built upon the foundation of the New Deal.
I never, EVER though that 50 year later I would be praising LBJ as the best and most Liberal Democrat of the last 1/2 century,
but THERE it IS.

[font size=4]Obama says he'd be seen as moderate Republican in 1980s[/font]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014336360

The time frame doesn't matter.
On policy and issues, he is STILL a moderate Republican.
He BELIEVES that "Free Market", Deregulation, Privatize Everything, Trickle Down, Two Americas shit.
Bill Clinton's undisputed title of "Best Republican President EVER"
is in jeopardy.
The Big Dog never had the balls to touch Social Security.


[font color=firebrick][center]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font][/center]
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[font size=1]photo by bvar22
Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]


You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their rhetoric, promises, or excuses.
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