What's it gonna take? Seriously. What will it take for you to see that the two corporate political parties do not serve your best interests?

I've railed on Republicans - but one last example. The bankruptcy bill just passed...it's going to screw the common folk while giving corporations more ways to take your money. THAT's your party. Oh, and not wanting filibustering in judicial appointment hearings. THAT's democracy? (My Senator Clintonbagger didn't make the vote on that one...curious...)

But onto the Democrats....I have two examples of how useless they are...one is national the other local:

*Hooray! Howard Dean's the chair of the party! Whoopie! Uh...maybe not. Look, how many times are they going to sell their own out, before people realize that the leaders of the party are right in step with the War Criminal known as your President. They bend over and take it every single time. You were scared and backed another Yale elitist who couldn't have been a worse candidate which followed that tool, Gore, who was the second worst candidate. Where the hell is Michael Dukakis when you need him? The number of Dems who voted for the bankruptcy bill is another clear sign that the D's don't give a crap about your ass.

*I'm working on a Green's local campaign. We're trying for other ballot lines as well (in NYS, you can run on more than one line...it's a little funky, but it's set up in a way that usually, corporate candidates usually get those third party lines too....nice, huh?). In this particular situation, a guy who has been in the seat for 20+ years is being outed by term limits. The Dems can't find anyone to run for the spot so they get the guy's wife to run...she doesn't want to do it, but however they "convinced" her...she's running...and as a Dem for a local office, she's running on a anti-abortion platform...I swear, it's true. So we decided to see if the Dems would consider running our person on their line instead...he's more progressive and we actually wants to run. Well at the town dem committee meeting the guy still in office & the Operation Rescue wannabe's husband gets up and goes into a tirade, screaming at everyone. How DARE they consider this other person! You owe her! He scared everyone to the point where no one would even nominate my guy. So this chick, who doesn't want to run and almost broke down crying, who doesn't have an idea in her head other than stop abortions gets the nomination unanimously.

So the Democratic Party will be running a person who doesn't want the seat, who's only platform stance is anti-abortion against a Republican lawyer. Big choice there, huh? Oh, we're still running - which means there will be a choice for anyone who isn't stuck in 1950, but will they vote for a Green? That's the thing. Will they just look at party? Because if they do....hello, Ward. Hello, June.

So what am I suggesting? Well, sure. Go Green would be my number one suggestion, but even if you just can't bring yourself to do it...go anything other than the corporate two! Or if your toilet training was funky and you just can't change, get involved in the party and get them to stop this crap!

I've probably talked about his before...but I love it when Dems tell me that the Greens need to register en masse as D's and "take over" the party. Sheeeeee-it. You can't do it, what makes you think we can. If the Democratic Party really wanted to get rid of the Greens they would start acting like progressives. Start standing up for social & economic justice, the environment, real democracy...instead of being the greedy little corporate whores they are.



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