Thomas Frank calls out blind partisanship by Dems

[KoKo]

1. It's been a puzzle why our Dem Party hasn't seized the talking points

on wealth inequality and the Bank Bailouts with lack of prosecution for those who helped bring down the Financial System of the US/EU causing Austerity for innocents and causing thousands to lose their homes or suffer through nightmares of paperwork and legal actions to save their homes.

We could have seized the moment because we had a Popular President elected with the country ready to clean up the mess after Bush/Cheney. President Obama had a huge activist base who knew how to get his message out over the internet and on the streets.

Then....all the efforts seemed to go to attacking the Tea Party and focusing on the evil Republicans rather than building our party through grassroots activism. Obama couldn't do this all himself. It's the Dem Party Leadership that let us down in this. They didn't focus on a "50 State Strategy" like Howard Dean did and they cut off their Left Activists from the moment Obama was elected leaving it to the Obama Activist Netroots to attack Republicans, Faux News and RW Internet Blogs plus silencing the Left of their own party rather than doing ground work refining the Democratic Message and challenging the Party when it strayed ever rightward hoping to gain Republican support.