Reply #7: How relevant were Democrats and Pres given their huge mandate in '08 ....

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they made themselves meaningless while resurrecting the GOP!!

You're ignoring a great deal to create a happy ending which doesn't exist --

Democratic Party and its agenda continue to be weakened by corporate influence over

the party -- weaker every session. The differences are fading.

And as you can see from Obama's record, his main advisors and those he trusts are too

often pro-corporates -- the very people who created the mess we're in -- Geithner,

Summers, Paulson, Bernanke. And, his new pals -- Alan Simpson, Bowles!


If you have been watching anything that DLC and Rahm have been doing ....

Also, there is an opportunity every two years to nominate another Democrat for election if you do not like the one that is there. If that action is not electorally feasible we have the opportunity and responsibility to gain consensus amongst the electorate to change that as well.

You know they have been working counter to the interests of the non-corporte wing of the party.

Rahm has been supporting conservate/pro-corporate Democrats, even when a more liberal Democrat

is the incumbent. Rahm also returned again to not opposing many sitting Repugs -- unlike what

Howard Dean was doing. Many of us can also tell you that decades ago the Democratic Party

became the party of the richer -- very difficult for any ordinary American to run for office

any longer -- even as a Democrat.

Try it yourself and see what happens --


And that is to say nothing of the fact that we are members of the Democratic Party and it is as relevant as we put forth the effort to make it relevant.

Many of us have already put forth the effort -- long ago!

And it has been met with betrayal by the corporate-wing of the Democratic Party.

It is up to the Democratic Party now to consider where their future lies --

Will they survive a system where Repugs are getting $7 for every $1 they are getting without

moving further to the right and total destruction?

Or will they rid themselves of the corporate influence over the party and regain the support

of Democratic voters?

It's up to them -- not us.