Open Letter To Liberals And Progressives

[MrMickeysMom]

93. You know, the populists aren't the ONLY ones who are pissed off these days…

Persons of DU, I would imagine, VOTE. I have in everything from local to national elections in 3 different states of the Union. I also "engaged in citizenship" in 5 years of one of the most un-selfish things you can do - I became a local official… I ran, won 4 elections financed with my own money as a Democrat… I am glad to have done it, but no good deed goes unpunished, let's just say.

In the last year, doing what was right was NOT easy… standing up for what I believed Democrats would have supported gave me the opportunity to see that power and power brokers aren't about parties. Many in this town who do not pay attention became completely dis-engaged, side tracked by the shiny little objects of a very corrupt system. A lot of Democrats do that in this country.

I'd like to say that I voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton, and with the exception of some state races, and even I find the Democrats are the better over an alternative, I do not appreciate the deceit coming from the majority of those in BOTH parties, and this includes any rhetoric of Barack Obama's putting on his comfortable shoes to get behind "main street" over "Wall Street". It does not include his clandestine participation for the TPP. He was never a progressive, had we checked him out from the outset. At best, he has been socially liberal and most beholding to a corrupt Wall Street who assured his position in the White House while a lot of us worked our asses off on the street.

We had a chance right before Nancy Pelosi took "impeachment off the table", and we'll never reverse Bush's unitary executive moves resulting in the loss of so much civil liberty. Just look at the push back against those who stand for main street under the occupy movement. I read it here often.

If you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention. By the way, Democrats can truly define themselves that way, and not because everyone should feel the same way about the majority of what passes as Democrats in office, who wouldn't know main street if it squirted up their ass.