"the Snooze-and-Lose Democratic Minority-d'Perpetuity"

[welshTerrier2]

gas prices are sky-rocketing with no end in sight ... who gets hurt the most by this? those who are paying an increasingly larger share of their take home pay to put gas in their cars to get to work ...

and, while each additional penny is squeezed out at the pump, the big oil companies are making record profits ...

and what does the "Party of the People", the Democratic Party have to say about this injustice? There are reasons some criticize the Democratic Party as having become too "corporatist" ... where's the outrage? where's the voice of the people? where is just plain old good politics?

have Democrats become advocates of laissez-faire capitalism? should BIG OIL be able to exploit the instability caused by bush's endless war in the Middle East? are we going to accept the idea that if consumers think gas is too expensive they should just stop buying it? free market capitalism does nothing but allow the wealthiest and most powerful to exploit the markets they control ... are Democrats so afraid of being labeled "anti-business" that they no longer choose to represent consumers no matter how great the injustice?

we've become the minority party in this country ... maybe this is one of the reasons why ...

source: http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050804/EDIT/508040321/1003

Washington's official reaction to that maddening news has been softer than silence. But before you search the skies for black helicopters, conspiracy theorists, do not rule out the possibility that sheer incompetence is also afoot. Blame here must be divided among the See-No-Evil Policymakers of this oil-friendly administration, the Snooze-and-Lose Democratic Minority-d'Perpetuity and Myopic Watchdogs who often function as Washington's de facto agenda-setters.<skip>

Here's why Washington's only reaction was unrequited nothingness: Absent a Page One prodding from the agenda-setters, the reporters who cover the White House didn't press the press secretary to explain what President Bush thought should be done.

That could have been offset by a savvy, quick, responsible reaction in behalf of the people by the Opposition Party that always considered itself the party of the people. But no - today's Democratic Party leaders have lost their way. Washington Democrats either didn't spot the Exxon-profits news or didn't perceive that people might see it as wrong that they are paying soaring prices at the pump while Exxon Mobil pockets soaring profits. Mainly, the Democratic opposition didn't see a need to spotlight the problem in order to create the compelling coalition that can forge a realistic solution.

[Armstead]

1. Add it to the long list of what they ignore

There are a lot of simple plain problems that the Democrats have helped to make seem complicated and thus insolvable.

And before anyone counters that it's the fault of "The media" for not giving Democrats airtime, please remember that the consolidation and corporate dominance of the media is also on the list of Big Issues the Democrats have ignored over the last 25 years. The Democrats gave the Corporate Empire the baseball bat that they are now being bludegeoned with.

[mazzarro]

2. Amen to that!

The Democrats gave the Corporate Empire the baseball bat that they are now being bludegeoned with
I am still distressed that even till now Democrats are not making concerted efforts at balancing the disadvantage in reThugs favor of media ownership. Liberals, should by now, have bought and be running unabashedly, their own media and not pussy-footing around with timidity and fear. Al Gore's efforts in the direction of starting a media has not impressed me at all - it is still the "DLC - Democratic 'Losership' Council' approach of tending too much to the so-called independents, moderates and spineless centrism.

[Hidden Stillness]

3. Corporate Media and Corporate Political Parties--All on the Same Page

You really get a sense of how strange and outrageous this situation is, if you read the whole story, called "Big Oil's obscene profits." The "upper levels" of both Parties really do get so entrenched in the privileged-but-hectic lives of official Washington D.C. and jetting around travelling, that they are effectively like ghosts to us now, flitting around, appearing and seeming, but never responding to us, unaware of our existence now. A story like this, telling of the desperate situation faced by so many Americans--people who cannot afford to drive to their minimum-wage jobs, so wealthy capitalists can price-gouge them--as corporate "D"LC pseudo-Democrats actually do not care.

This is the type, as you mentioned, "so afraid of being labeled 'anti-business' " that they go completely the other way, all the time, always. Always make sure to start off with some phrase like, "There's no law against making money"....Not any more there ain't; that's the problem. There are no laws for those people. This really began with Clinton, this attitude of total capitulation: when Clinton might have clamped down on media exploitation, we got instead the "V-chip" so rich people could buy new technology--from more capitalists. Clinton even weakened the health warning on the sides of cigarette packs, for the tobacco industry; unheard of before. Anything to avoid enacting laws. People like this eventually convince themselves that the President has nothing to do with the economy, and can't stop any of these processes, now called "natural"--even though releasing stocks from the Emergency Petroleum Reserve, enforcing regulations to increase fuel efficiency, and encouraging alternative energy sources would've given immediate, huge relief.

No, our problem is not that Republicans are so "brilliant" with their propaganda, or that we are "too liberal," as the corporate props all say. It is that nothing is answered, nothing is addressed, they don't even appear to know anything about us or our problems anymore, and they don't dare risk losing that corporate campaign money. It ain't tricky, and it ain't Republican "skill"--a group that got where they are by threats, lies, bribes, redistrcting, and commercializing the counting of votes, now run by their friends. Democrats, meanwhile, say nothing, except, like servants, to be endlessly ingratiating. There is no relief from any corporate exploitation of the people anymore--on one side, an Administration made up of oil executives, and on the other, a kind of cult that believes that law itself is bad, and like free agents pursuing careers, are more concerned about their images and their contracts than anything relating to the "audience."

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