Reply #47: My best guess is that the DNC and the DLC

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told the liberal Democrats that they would not get any support in future elections from the Democratic Party unless they kept their mouths shut. Rep. Bob Filner (D)CA of San Diego has been getting reelected by the people here who know how progressive he is, and I don't think he was approached by the Democratic leadership because they knew he wouldn't go along to get along. As for Wellstone and the other supposed liberals in the Senate, they went along. There are many cases of liberals and progressives being elected DESPITE the Democratic leadership, and we we need more of them. But what we really need are more political parties, more valid choices, and representation of the people, not of the parties. Moore was correct, the two major parties owe their allegiance to big campaign contributors, and only a complete reform of our election system will change that.

I believe that if there had been even one senator to sign the CBC petition, we would have been plunged into Civil War. I believe that we should have been, and that it may still be necessary. I don't know how younger people may feel, and I respect them because they have full lives ahead of them, but I would rather be dead than continue to endure fascism in the free country of my birth. I would emigrated when JFK was assassinated if I had been able to afford to. As it was, I spent many years in other countries, and learned that most of what I'd been taught about the world was wrong.