Don't miss Ernest Partidge's great essay:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/CrisisPapers/19"Finally, as noted above, many progressives demand total agenda agreement and ideological purity among their allies before facing outward and taking on "the enemy." And because many of these internal disputes are interminable, the GOP and the regressive right often get a free pass."
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"The Democrats should now be making alliances with the disaffected Right: libertarians, Christians (emphasizing the forgotten moral teachings of the Sermon on the Mount), and the "lost Democrats" of labor and the middle class who had defected earlier to Ronald Reagan."
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"Expose the election racket, demand fair and verifiable elections. And do it now. Time is of the essence."
"Above all, we must unite! Put aside intramural differences, form alliances with former adversaries, focus on common concerns and aims. Let's take back our government, then we can duke out our differences, as fellow citizens in a restored republic under the rule of law.
Keep your eyes on the prize!"
The prize is the preservation of American democracy. Our future as a free country is at stake.