Reply #9: I knew it! The minute the Dems show some power, corporate whores like

[Peace Patriot]

Leonard Pitts start talking about playing nice.

I hope the Democrats don't. I hope they take this regime, and the party that brought us this regime, and their corporate puppetmasters and put them all right through the shredder of the Peoples' Righteous Anger. A total dismantling of the G.O.P. and the bad actor corporations behind them--the oil giants, the media giants, the war profiteers and the electronic voting corporations--is in order.

Even if the Democrats take 40 seats in the House and gain control of the Senate, it still does not adequately reflect the size of the great progressive American majority that has been violated and suppressed by this regime. I hope the Democratic Party realizes this, despite the "poison pills" lurking in their ranks--like the Democrats who voted for torture and the suspension of habeas corpus the other week. Diebold/ES&S control the primary as well as general elections, and they and the filthy campaign contribution/corporate lobbying system have too often denied Democratic and progressive voters a choice that truly reflects their views. Thus, even a large Democratic majority in Congress will be controlled by a block of "Bushite Democrats" as the swing voters whose role will likely be to prevent impeachment, limit investigations, and blockade any real reform. But I am talking about the REAL Democrats. I hope they realize that their mandate far exceeds their numbers--even if the party win big tomorrow--since so much of the progressive vote has been artificially suppressed by dirty and criminal means.

I've been yelling about this here at DU for three years. FIFTY-SIX PERCENT of the American people opposed Bush's war way back before the invasion, in Feb. '03. SIXTY-THREE PERCENT of the American people oppose torture "under any circumstances" (May '04). The Dems blew the Bushites away in new voter registration in 2004, by nearly 60/40. The stats go on and on like this. Progressive views have been artificially and CRIMINALLY suppressed in the composition of Congress, over the last several elections, and a small, weird, fascist MINORITY was installed in Congress with majority power, and furthermore has been given a Big Trumpet in the war profiteering corporate news monopolies way out of proportion to their numbers. The Democrats in Congress in the recent past--the REAL Democrats--have had to represent the vast majority of Americans with only minority power, minimized even further by the brutal power-grabbing tactics of the Bush "pod people" illegitimately running Congress. We've got to realize what the real Democrats have been up against, and have some compassion for them--and we probably don't know the half of what they've faced (spying, blackmail, threats on their lives, God only knows)--but we've also got to push them now to stand firm in the interests of the American people now, and take no prisoners in the counterattack. The Corporate propaganda laid out by Pitts lecturing Democrats on "humility," and soon to be pontificating about "bi-partisanship," is exactly the political climate that installed a psychopath in the office of the President of the United States and a wrecking crew in the Pentagon, who have slaughtered 600,000 innocent people and run up a $10 trillion debt.

It's not time for nice. It's time for the Sword of Damocles!