Reply #79: I think we're in an area here beyond politics, and probably...

[DeepModem Mom]

have been since DU's founding, which I understand came out of the need to communicate after a stolen election. A stolen election has little to do with politics. But unless we intend to mount an armed revolution, we have little but politics, and understanding of history, to restore legitimate government to this country. The danger to our system from the "nasty, brutal, cowardly" cabal now in power, and the fact that they are enabled by a media not fulfilling its role as envisioned in the Constitution, cannot be dismissed or even underestimated. Nor can we afford to forget that during the tenuous days in which our system was created, political compromise was not only necessary, but part of the reason the system worked and has endured.

Compromise can become cowardice, however, and it took Dr. Dean to give us our courage back. He will now work for his ideals, but he will compromise and support a chosen candidate if it means ridding us of George W. Bush. Some here, however, are so angry that they vow never to compromise again. They would risk throwing it all away, rather than compromise. They would risk a consolidation of power so unprecedented, and truly brutal, that they may have lost their last chance to reform any party, or elect any candidate. And that's why I'm angry.