We are at war. You can pretend we can be one country again, but we can't.

[patrice]

53. There are those who are saying we will always lose as long as it is okay with us to allow

those of our own Working-Class and "lesser" Americans to continue to vote against their own interests. If these people call themselves Republicans as they do in my state, I guess that's just too damned bad, but if there's a chance of winning the CLASS WARFARE that is being carried out on us, we must cross those CLASS lines to seek solidarity with our own class.

If we can't bring ourselves to do this, there will NEVER be a super-majority to give us a chance against super-PACS, in the voting booths or in the courts. Even when we "win", it'll be splitting margins, and thus creating the co-relate of our blue-dogs in whatever the hip flavor/color of the current election cycle is.

Have your read this yet? http://books.google.com/books/about/Stayin_Alive.html?id=h9acQrZmpmAC It tells the story of just exactly HOW we lost "it" and suggests the way to get it back and yes it does have to do with exactly the things you describe, but Cowie et al are calling for CLASS solidarity as a solution.