A Short Note On The Democratic Party And The Progressive Left....

[KoKo]

313. No One has mentioned "Citizens United Decision!" No One!

That Decision unleashed the BIG MONEY to do whatever they wanted to buy the Politicians. It's not just Koch and ALEC and the Chamber of Commerce. It's the Wall Street Crowd who now can just buy politicians.

Why do you think Pelosi and Reid and the Leadership seem so week on the Dem Side?
Why do some of our (more left leaning Dems from past years) high ranking in the Committees often seem to cave. Go to any of the Watch Dog sites and see who gets the money and watch how they vote these days.

There's NO WAY Democratic Donors of the 99% can compete with the money coming into both Dem and Republican coffers. Dems are ruling with Wall Street because of the Bank Bailouts and lack of Wall Street Prosecutions for criminal Bankers and some of the Hedge Funds. But, the Right has the whole agenda that's always been there for them..(they've spent decades on Foundations and Think Tanks push their ideas into the Media) plus also Wall Street and the Big Power House Addition of the Republican Small Business Crowd and the Fundamentalist Christian Coalition who have been very successful in finding Politicians they can get elected.

We run around chasing our tail about how far Right or Left the Dems are and argue here on DU and elsewhere about it...but, it's the BIG MONEY and the Supreme Courts disastrous and tragic ruling in favor of "Citizens United" where the Corporations now have the ability to run our politicians, the process of electing them and how they vote when they get to "The People's House" in DC!

THIS IS THE BASIC /Overwhelming CURRENT PROBLEM. And until both parties wake up to this ....we are just going to be arguing amongst ourselves instead of focusing on "Corporations as People" and how that must be overturned.

Whatever.... I'm sure no one will read this so far down on thread.