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In reply to the discussion: It's time to examine where my loyalties lie, you judge, I'll just explain my position. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)representative of those loyalties. We have been side-tracked, I think. Eight years of Bush caused us to lose sight of many things and we adapted an attitude of 'anyone but Bush'.
This was very short-sighted, but understandable considering the circumstances.
Now though, the people are awakening. I think this was an interim period, and our Party lost its way.
Or more accurately, our party was hi-jacked. Many of us refused to notice, I remember being very angry during the Bush years with people who tried to warn us. But now I understand and many more like me also get it.
There is no other party for us, those of us who care about all that you so eloquently laid out in your OP.
So we have to decide. Do we let the infiltrators take over our party, or do we organize and hold on to it by refusing to elect candidates that are chosen for us?
I'm for not letting them steal our party. To try to start another one is almost impossible and besides we have a third party, it is called 'The Third Way' and it has attached itself to OUR party.
My feeling is that we detach this third party from ours, let them join the one they belong to in reality or start THEIR own.
We were here first, I'm not ready to concede our party to any right wing infiltrators.
The good news is we can see now where the problem is within our party. We were sort of blinded by the Bush years.
The first step towards fixing problem is to identify it. And I think we have done that with THEIR help, ironically.
I feel excited about taking this new view of things. It is freeing in a way. Before we were 'waiting' and 'hoping' when what was required was direct action.
This conversation is going on all over the country now. And to me, that is a good thing.
It can start with just one person, then two then three. If we are careful about who we choose to represent us, find people with real courage and leadership skills to run for office, chosen by US not them, and in large numbers, because they WILL destroy those with courage unless they can't. And the way to prevent that is to overwhelm them.
There is a lot of work to be done to take this Party out of the hands of Wall St and its minions planted in the party. But I think it can be done.