Why the Left Is Stronger Without the Democrats

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1. I don't think it's that progressives saw no difference between Gore and Bush ...

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... or no difference between the parties. The parties (and the two politiicans) are clearly different. They're just not different enough.

Sure, one party foments hate to incite their base while the other advocates for equal rights. But both party's leaderships are beholden to Wall Street, the Koch brothers and other big, big, big monied interests when it comes to economic issues. As a result, not only do we have an uneven economic playing field, we don't have either party fighting to level it.

Sure, there are some progressive Democrats like Warren and Brown, but for every Grijalva there's a blue dog and five "corpo-dems".

The People can and will take back the Democratic Party through grass-roots action, but it won't happen yet. But the pain that will cause that awakening is intensifying rapidly, and the moment is coming.