Democrats Who Move Right Lose Elections – There Is No “Center”

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55. In terms of Democratic leadership, there is no real need to move to

the "Right" -- as on almost all the important issues the Party leadership is already there:

**Financial hijacking by Big Financial firms, done and finished by Obama's appointment of Geithner and re-appointment of Bernanke. Smoke a joint on streets of DC, and you get 47 days in jail. Destroy the nation's economy and rather than donning an orange prison jump suit, you can still head up US Treasury.

**Establishment of eternal pollution of convention crops and food done and finished by establishing Monsanto shills inside Ag Department and FDA

**Hijacking the Peace Dividend for the purposes of "needed surveillance" with the Peace Dividend's monies going now to all things surveillance, rather than to re-building our decrepit infra-structure, slashed to the bone health clinics, slashed to the bone education programs, etc.

**Privatizing the Big for Profit Prison corporations. Happens just as much under Democratic governors as by Republicans. Here in California, it is costing the state;s taxpayers over $ 62K a year to house an inmate, yet the prisoners often have filthy water to drink and crappy food.

**Establishing the Monsanto pollution of seeds, crops and foods. these past five years were the game changers for Monsanto and other GM food sources - as now that they were allowed to go ahead with their Gm crops, the pollen from these crops is ubiquitously flourishing. If we ever do get someone honest back in office, the pollen itself is still freely disseminating itself. You cannot legislate pollen. Monsanto has won the game.

**Fracking interests are also flourishing, under Democratic governors like Ed Rendell (and we still have little guidance from the Oval Office on the issue.) Other than when looking at the appointments that have been made, there doesn't seem to be any punishment for those who are insiders with the fracking Big Energy Industry. (BTW, retired from governing PA, rendell is now a major player in a Texas firm known for its fracking activities.)

**Speaking of Big Energy, I haven't heard that the WH has changed its mind on nuclear power. Even though the industry itself realizes it cannot recoup the costs of re-modernizing old plants or building new ones. Does anyone here know if Obama has changed his mind on having Federal loans offered to the industry (to the tune of 50 billions of dollars plus.) Of course, maybe those loan monies have already been offered up?

**TPP which will be like NAFTA on steroids. The Powers that Be are almost there on that one.