An Open Letter to Michael Moore by Philip A. Farruggio

[wutangfan85]

This explained everything that I've been thinking of the Democratic Party since their level of selling out to the corporate elite a LONG time ago


This note is not just for you Michael. It is also for the progressive minded pundits that you rub elbows with. It is time to LET GO OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY! I sat last night and watched you and John Nichols with Laura Flanders and Amy Goodman. The election results were streaming in trumpeting a bloodbath for the Democrats. I sat forward in my chair, awaiting the truth of it all: That the Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for what transpired! You seemed at times, Michael, to want to just shout that out. Yet, along with the others ( including Thom Hartmann and his panel earlier) , as a group you all seemed to have hope for these hypocrites and sellouts! Am I being too rash? Sorry, but as a progressive small businessman and activist leader, I reached my breaking point in 2007. The Democrats regained control of the Congress and did ….NOTHING substantial regarding key issues

Michael, I love your films and your chutzpah. You usually speak truth to power. Yet, last night you behaved like the man whose wife keeps going out and cheating on him. Instead of finally putting his foot down and saying ‘ Enough is enough ‘ , he keeps taking her back after she squirts some tears of remorse his way. Been there did that Michael, with a previous love interest and with the Democrats. The more they bull**** us and promised us ‘ hope and change ‘ we would keep voting for them. Each time we showed great disappointment, all they needed to do ( as with this election ) is play the ‘ Lesser of two evils fear card. Yet, as you revealed in your latest film, we are talking about survival here Michael. The survival of our citizens to be able to have employment, shelter and a safety net has already come to an end. Sadly, these Democrats had the power for 3 plus years to make a difference, and did squat!

Do me a favor Michael, and share this with Amy and the others: Stop using the phrases ‘ WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN ‘ ! There are no wars going on…. Only occupations. Perhaps if we who disdain what our nation has done to those two countries in our name used the word occupation , more Americans would begin to ‘ get it ‘ . Thus, we have a Democratic party that not only supports these machinations of empire, but continues to vote for the spending that this Military Industrial Complex needs so as to operate with impunity! Mr. Obama may be a nice guy and all that, but…. He is simply a servant of empire the same as Junior Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr., Reagan , Carter, Ford, Nixon , LBJ and even JFK ( until he got ‘ born again humane ‘ and they finished him off ) . His party, with but a handful of exceptions, follows lock step behind the Fat Cats who run our corporations and the Pentagon.


http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/an-open-letter-to-michael-moore-by-philip-a-farruggio

[Naturyl]

1. Yeah, I kind of don't get Mike.

Huge fan of the guy, but he confuses me sometimes. He makes a movie savaging capitalism (rightfully) but apparently is NOT a socialist. He totally gets the fact that corporations run government but he still acts as if there is hope in sold-out Democrats.

I dunno. It's confusing. I'm no longer sure where Mike is really coming from.

[wutangfan85]

3. Yeah I like Mike too, but he sounds delusional when

he pretends that becaue Obama "is a nice guy" that he'll get it soon. The boomers who still vote for the Democrats, "THIS ISN'T FATHER'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY!" The party that stood for Progressive values from the 30's to the 70's is gone! Even with a few exceptions, this whole party has sold out the workin familes of this country a LONG time ago.

[Naturyl]

6. Not just the "working families."

The non-working poor, too. They used to matter. They used to be an issue for the left.

Now all we hear about is the "working" poor, and we don't even hear much about them. The "middle class" gets all the attention, but even so, they are getting shafted, too.

Take note, middle-classers - the non-existence that has been thrust upon the poor is coming for you, too. The "middle class" will be redefined to include only the wealthy and you will cease to exist on the political landscape, just as the poor (and especially the non-working poor) already have. Don't say you weren't warned.

[Djinn]

8. The middle class has always been an illusion

created by the ruling class to help prevent working class solidarity. You might be middle INCOME but the overwhelming majority of people who think of themselves as middle class are actually working class. If you have little or no say in the direction/pace of your work, if you rely on the wages from your job in order to live then you ARE working class. People need to stop relating to those with whom they have nothing in common. A middle manager in your average company has more in common with the janitor than the owner or CEO.

[wutangfan85]

10. I hate to say this, but the Democratic Party would be

scared shitless to mention poor people, working, or non-working. As Cenk Uygur of TheYoungTurks was saying, "The Democrats can't be populist because they take the same corporate money, they just can't come out and say it."

[Naturyl]

13. You ain't wrong

Sadly, you're right.

[bbgrunt]

2. exactly. I've had it too with all those

who continually try to "explain" their behavior and Obama's constant capitulations with "they just don't get it" or "they are locked inside the beltway bubble". A big load of crap.

[mmonk]

4. Excellent.

I'm still hoping FDR's reign will be grabbed by someone though.

[Newest Reality]

5. Locked into a dualism.

Right now, we could use a true multi-party system that is mainstream. However, we are locked into what now clearly appears to be a political system where both parties are instrumental in supporting the Status Quo and furthering the interests of those who profit greatly from it.

A party that stood against those invested and embedded systems, (which will eventually collapse, being unsustainable) is both appropriate and necessary in times like these where the deck is stacked completely against the majority of us, i.e., not one of the deadbeat rich or corporate overlords.

We need relief, safety nets, real and total health care reform, as well as a list of other remedies to the crises we are all facing and sharing -- growing in momentum everyday. We don't need the farcical and synthetic, management of the masses, corporate media manufacturing conset and reality even as it erodes into decaying muck around our ankles.

If we can't pull free of the corporate and fat cat stronghold, then it is rather easy to predict a future where things become intolerably more miserable for more Americans while a pristine picture is painted that denies the facts -- a picture that will be painted in colors and shapes that favor the political parties and players that have failed us so greatly as far as actual results are concerned.

You can see it if you look carefully and pay attention. The chilling and relentless behemoth sucks the profit out and then picks what is left off the bones of our carcasses now, even as it reaches its slimy tendrils out to other hosts on the planet that it exploits and drains. This beast is out of control and its hunger is insatiable. You don't let something like that continue and expect good times ahead.

[upi402]

7. ibtl

thou shalt not worship false parties here


shhhh, there will be no pointing to the alleged big gray pachyderm in the main room for living here!

[Bryn]

9. K&R

[MilesColtrane]

11. So, do you agree with the author that there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans?

[wutangfan85]

14. Since the 1980's, sorry to say this

but yes. With only a few exceptions, but they're voices are crushed (Dennis Kucinich).

[MilesColtrane]

15. Then why are you here?

This site welcomes non-Democrats, but you may not advocate against them here.

If you're here just to tell us how much we suck, well...we already know that.

[eridani]

12. Get back to me when third parties start taking electoral politics seriously n/t