What are your true feelings about supporting the Democratic Party of today?

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73. Plenty. Its clear that democratic reforms must start at the local level

Its the only way Americans will get used to the idea that more workable alternatives exist.

And many of us live in areas that are far from 'purple' and not swing. That is an opportunity to vote one's conscience without handing conservatives a victory.

Personally, I don't know what else to say to your last message or that from Douglas; some of it is bizarre mis-characterization (we know the Ron Paul supporters who show up at Occupy events aren't progressives). The facts on the ground say that the War On Drugs was largely about race and class, expanding incarceration to a Stalin-esque scale. Now we have a surveillance state that outstrips aforementioned police state. Food and energy prices are climbing and education has been re-engineered into a scam.

D and R both are hemmoraghing voter affiliation to the independent category.

These are realities, too.

No civilization has reached this level of inequality and corruption without sparking a revolution. I think our nation has a chance at a peaceful revolution from the ballot box, but this process (assuming it takes hold) will be no friend to the Clinton-ism of the Democratic Party.