Why don’t elected Democrats just run up a white flag?

[Cyrano]

I’ve always believed that the much of the American public was dumb, but I didn’t know exactly how dumb until now. Think about it for a moment. How brain dead do you have to be to let a herd of crazy people such as Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, Sharron Angle, Rand Paul, and most of the Republican Party drive the national agenda?

The only thing these people have to sell is hatred. It’s their one and only product and it’s flying off the shelves. How incredibly stupid do you have to be to buy the crap they’re peddling?

But here’s the worst part. The Democratic Party doesn’t have a clue as to how to fight them. At every key moment, the Dems have either kept silent, or ignored their own interests. Want some examples?

Why was the prosecution of Bush/Cheney “off the table?”

Why isn’t every Dem screaming from the rooftops that the Republicans are trying to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unions and unemployment insurance?

Why aren’t prominent Dems pointing out that there’s virtually no difference between today’s Republican Party and the KKK?

Why haven’t Dems built think tanks to counter the landslide of shit that flows from Republican propaganda factories like the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute?

Why are we in Afghanistan?

Why aren’t jobs and education on the front burner?

Why is Michael Bloomberg (a Republican) the only one speaking out forcefully for religious freedom (regarding the Islamic center near ground zero)?

Why is Fox “News” allowed in the White House press briefing room when they’re not a real news organization?

Why have so many Dems allowed themselves to be bought and paid for by corporate America? (Yeah, I know. Greed is good.)

The list is endless, so feel free to add to it. But my point is that the Republicans know how to fight for what they want, their major weapons being fear, bigotry and hatred.

Do you suppose the Democrats are willing to get their hands dirty, get down in the trenches and learn how to fight for the people who elected them? If not, why don’t they just surrender now and quit trying to beat the lunatics who want complete control of America?

Edited to add that we need a few hundred more people like Alan Grayson in the congress.

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[jgraz]

6. Exactly. Why surrender when your side is winning?

[Junkdrawer]

2. Because it's their job to appear to defend the majority while serving the wealthy.

Like corrupt labor leaders who are on the company payroll.

[Doctor_J]

3. They have

At least it's very clear to me.

[green917]

4. I'll answer all of your questions by answering the last of them

"Do you suppose the Democrats are willing to get their hands dirty, get down in the trenches and learn how to fight for the people who elected them?"

If you know, as we all do, that it is we, the little people who actually got them elected then, the answer to your question is NO.

The problem is that they don't know or believe that we are the ones who matter in them keeping their jobs. They've allowed groups like the Democratic Leadership Council to permeate their ranks and skew their view of reality. In their myopic and foolish view of today's political reality (which is anything but real), Corporate America and the "Center" are who get them elected and keep them there. If you look at it like they do, they are fighting for the people they believe are necessary for them to stay in power: the moneyed corporate fat cats and the (as we know mythical) center.

In other words, we are screwed! Social Security benefits will be cut by the end of the year, the retirement age will be raised, the shysters on Wall Street will get to keep ALL of our money and keep gambling it away on speculations that they know will fail, and nobody inside the beltway will so much as speculate on how much the economy would improve if we were to stop funding imperialist misadventures in the sands of the Middle East (hey, predator drones are only a couple Million a piece anyways).

[Cyrano]

7. Then I guess we are the ones who should be running up a white flag.

Many here on DU call for a "revolution." The problem is that we don't even know who most of the people are who own our political class.

The Koch brothers were revealed in a recent article in the "New Yorker" as being the money behind many teabaggers and virtually every other lunatic cause out there. The problem is that there are too many like them. Dusting off the guillotine would seem to be an exercise in futility.

[old mark]

5. They are waiting to be paid even more money by the corporations. nt

[Better Believe It]

10. Exactly! They are auditioning for Wall Street and corporate lobbyist jobs.

[old mark]

11. I really feel bad for them - they obviously can't make it on what we pay them...

Maybe they should all resign and look for good jobs. I hear a lot of people are doing that now...


mark

[Edweird]

8. The DLC'ers success is predicated on your belief that Dems are weak and the president has no power.

That way even with a majority or 'super majority' Dems are 'forced' to pass RW legislation. It's a ruse.
DLC=GOP and they have taken over the Dem party. In other words, the current DLC leadership is getting exactly what they want. There will be no white flags.

[AnArmyVeteran]

9. How can they grab a flag when they are running away so fast?

Fucking cowards!

[Poboy]

13. !-nt

[MrScorpio]

12. Because of the fact that, while the GOP gets away with a lot of shit

There's a lot that they don't get away with.


That's where Democrats come in.