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In reply to the discussion: Thank you, Dennis, for everything. [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)*Wellstone....KIA
*McKinney......attacked, discredited, marginalized, expelled
*Dean...... attacked, discredited, fired, banished
*Weiner..... discredited, expelled, banished
*Grayson.... isolated, marginalized, abandoned, exiled
*Spitzer..... discredited, expelled, banished
*Feingold.... isolated, abandoned, marginalized, exiled
*Kucinich.... attacked, marginalized, redistricted, abandoned....
How much help did the Party Leadership give to these good, solid Progressive Democrats when they needed it?
In 2010, how much help did the Party Leadership give to Blue Dogs like Blanche Lincoln, and Republicans like Arlen Specter?
With the loss of Dennis Kucinich, the Working Class Party of FDR/LBJ lurches another step
to the conservative, Big Business, Authoritarian Right.
Who is left in this Party I once loved that speaks for me?
Who will speak these Truths?
*That Medicare for ALL is not only possible,
but Cheaper,
*That deregulating International Trade ("Free Trade"
was BAD for the American Working Class,
*That the Invasion of Iraq was a WAR CRIME and the people responsible should be prosecuted,
*That our War Machine is Out-of-Control and killing people in places we have NO BUSINESS being in,
*That our insane Military Spending is taking the food out of the mouths of our hungry children,
and the roofs from over their heads
*That we shouldn't trust our elections to privately owned computers.
that we CAN have hand counted paper ballots,
*That we really should join the International Community, join the ICC,
and ban land mines
*That we CAN turn off the Money Machine in Washington,
and return our Congress to the People
*That there really are POOR PEOPLE in our country that need our help
Who will speak these Truths?
Who is left in this Party I once loved that speaks for me?
[font color=firebrick][center]Unlike the other candidates, I am not funded by those corporate interests.
I owe them no loyalty, and they have no influence over me or my policies. ---Dennis Kucinich [/font]
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