Democrats Should be Saying "Ich Bin Ein Progressive"

[NorthCarolina]

Loyal Democrats Should be Saying "Ich Bin Ein Progressive" or November Will be a Rout, as Florida Showed Us

By Rob Kall:OpEdNews

What's a progressive to do? There's a growing sense of panic that progressives are going to sit this one out.

The Florida primary, this week, proved that the fear is based on a reality even worse than what Democrats imagined. Though there are more 750,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in Florida, the turnout in this weeks primary yielded about 900,000 Democrats and 1.25 million Republicans. I don't think you can attribute that massive no-show situation to progressives petulantly staying home or voting third party. No, there are a whole lot of Democrats who are disappointed, pissed, outraged or who have just given up on Obama and his can't-do congressional enablers.

<---snip--->

Progressives in particular have good reason to be beyond furious with Obama appointee @%&*s (expletive replaced) like Rahm Emanuel and Robert Gibbs, who have shown the hostility the White House truly feels for progressives. We have been stabbed in the back, kicked out the door and spit upon by the White House, as well as lied to, and deceived.

The fact is, the elected Democrats in congress failed to show up for the past four years and failed to embrace the incredible power they were given. That was a betrayal of the confidence the voters placed in them. Nancy Pelosi was kept as majority leader even though she failed to prosecute real criminals. Eric Holder was appointed Attorney General and then did next to nothing to pursue justice, except to ratchet up the attack on truth-telling whistle blowers. Worse, he kept on the worst of the Karl Rove appointed federal attorneys-- ones who went after innocent victims like Don Siegelman and Cyril Wecht and hundreds of others.

<---snip--->

Link: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Loyal-Democrats-Should-be-by-Rob-Kall-100827-849.html

_________________________________________________________________________________________________

Good article by Rob Kall over at OpEdNews....worth a read.

[jaxx]

1. Unrec for all the obvious reasons.

What a whine, fire this one fire that one...advocate for 3rd parties.

[NorthCarolina]

2. If you are going to clean house, you need to start somewhere. eom

[jaxx]

3. The article is just one more bashfest.

It has nothing good to say about the Democratic Party or the President. It's all about "me".

[NorthCarolina]

4. That's your take on it anyway. I'm sure there are others here that would

have a different take on it.

[DJ13]

6. People tend to vote thinking of "me" instead of just party

Thats why the poor economy will play a huge roll in November.

[NorthCarolina]

7. Or maybe, just maybe, they are voting to reclaim the Democratic Party

as an advocate of the people. That is hardly a "thinking of me" motivation. Whatever though, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

[DJ13]

9. Thats true

And I believe that.

I was just trying to give a response that was non confrontational.

:hi:

[jaxx]

11. People who tend to vote "me" aren't usually tuned in to "we".

The economy will play a roll, and it's up to us, as in Democrats, to make sure the selective amnesia of the right isn't allowed. The economy didn't fail on January 20, 2009, it was gone by then.

[Nite Owl]

13. These people do nothing to further

the ideals of the Democratic Party why should they be kept? We are paying for them, they work for us and our opinions should matter. The fact that they don't is the problem that many of us would like to see changed. Defending something that is bad for the party isn't the good thing to do.

[NorthCarolina]

18. I couldn't agree more.

To keep voting for the DLC New Dems simply because they they have a "D" after their name on the ballot makes little sense to me. Supporting Liberal/Progressive candidates, and shunning the conservative Dems is the only way to get their attention, AND to reclaim the Democratic Party as an advocate of the people. That to me should be Job #1 for any Democrat.

[RKP5637]

5. +1000, +++ I AGREE!!! n/t

[dkf]

8. Why are we supposed to be speaking German?

:shrug: :shrug:

[DJ13]

10. Kennedy and jelly donuts

[Donnachaidh]

12. American history - JFK

Ich Bien Einer Berliner (however you spell it) -- Google is your friend.

[Chulanowa]

14. Sorry, no.

I don't hate mexicans.
Nor am I a slobbering islamophobe.
I do not pretend to be for gay and gender rights when people are looking, only to mock them when I think I'm alone.
I simply can't find the energy to scream until my tonsils bleed about how godawful THAT ONE is, and how he is even worse than Bush
Nor do I believe Democrats and Republicans are"the same" or that a los for Democrats will be good becuase it will "send a message to washington."
My sense of self-worth is not predicated on the number of facebook friends I have, nor on the amount of "K&R!" posts I win on DU.
I can't pretend that a President who has pushed more positive legislation through congress than any of his six predecessors has "Accomplished nothing but talk," nor can I pretend that a Congressman from Florida who talks a good game but hasn't achieved much is the epitome of action. That is I don't mistake catharsis for activity.
I'm not willing to abandon the people of Afghanistan to the gentle hands of the Taliban in the name of election-year political expediency.
I am not terribly concerned about fluoride in my water.
I do not whine about the economy with the same mouth that I dismiss labor issues.

And importantly, I am not willing to make up a new term to hide what I am because I want conservatives to like me; I'm not a progressive. I'm a liberal. I may even be a leftist. And I vote Democratic.

Bit me.

[RainDog]

15. looks like the strategy of throwing the left under the bus to get the middle = FAIL

also looks like those who bitch on this site about people discouraging voters really miss the point - those who are expressing their anger are merely representative of a big portion of the left - not creating it.

That disappointment exists - with or without people talking about it on DU. The small crew who spends time attacking people on this site who express the disappointment with the way that the Democrats in power have refused to fight the right wingers are simply reflective of the way the party has refused to accept that its "sleeping with the enemy" strategy has failed.

The right wing will never be bipartisan. Corporations will never be able to give enough money to offset the rage that their influence has on the lives of Americans.

If Democrats lose it will be because the party refused to fight for the American people.

[NorthCarolina]

16. +1000. Somebody that Gets It.

Nice post, well said.:hi:

[depakid]

17. Yep- and DU looks to be an interesting place come November 3rd

Unfortunately, my guess is that some people will never learn- and rather than accept the obvious, they'll continue blaming progressives for the failure of the party leadership to exercise its mandate.

[yurbud]

19. the DLC would rather lose than bite the hand of their corporate masters