tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134372208798387606.post-17303093824428915052007-12-12T18:29:00.000-05:002007-12-12T18:29:00.000-05:002007-12-12T18:29:00.000-05:00As we paranoid types have known for years, it's all one big corporate party. Nader just stole our idea to suit his own agenda. And look what that did for us.<BR/><BR/>The Dems are the right wing of the party and the Repugs are the radical right. <BR/><BR/>What's left is fractured, disintegrated, and crippled into complete powerlessness. The left still awaits unifying leadership to forge the conscience and consciousness of the scattered remnants of our democracy into a viable political and economic force. <BR/><BR/>The Democrats are less than useless. They are indeed part of the problem.<BR/><BR/>As Thom Hartmann suggests on Air America, we need to infuse the Democratic Party with large enough numbers of progressives to stand together, instead of relying on the compromised weenies there now.<BR/><BR/>Mass boycotts of selected segments of the corporatocracy is one tool. A movement to buy only Citgo gasoline would be an example. Another, though more risky, option is to emulate Ghandi's non-violent passive resistance by non-cooperation. Maybe having a group calling themselves Constitutional Conservatives show up in numbers at certain events. And then not stand for the national anthem, while holding up signs saying, "When were free again, we'll stand," or "Restore the Bill of Rights."<BR/><BR/>This will take commitment to a long term agenda. That's how the Right did it. If we can't, then we lose.<BR/><BR/>At best, I'm afraid the bottom line for 99% of the Republicans and 90% of the Democrats is politics over principle and power over people. So that gives us, at best, 1% of the Republicans and 10% of the Democrats who would even stand up for justice and the Constitution.<BR/><BR/>As John Conyers said when asked about impeachment, "We don't have the votes." <BR/><BR/>I rest my case.<BR/><BR/>There goes our Constitution.<BR/><BR/>Unless we can get a real grass roots Constitutional revival movement up and going.Dave Dubyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.com