Open Letter to the DNCC - Say what you will about the Republicans, but you cannot fault their tactics when it comes to winning. They are a minority in the United States, by the numbers, but they are running the show both politically and economically, and for one reason: they fire up their base. Sure, firing up their base means gay-bashing, and woman-hating, and Jesus-shouting, and war-mongering...but it works. In the fourteenth year of this brave new century, the party everyone hates and thinks is crazy, according to all the polls, is about to take over the Senate and increase its hold on the House. Its not a magic trick, and its not a mystery, why that is about to happen. The Republicans are acting like Republicans, and the people who support them will run through stone walls to vote for them. Period, end of file. If Democrats acted like Democrats, they might enjoy the same level of support from their own base...but instead, the people are presented with this eternally timid Please Dont Hurt Me coalition, afraid of the word Liberal, and certainly addicted to the Wall Street/Defense/Petroleum money swelling their coffers. You aint broke, despite that barrage of emails to the contrary. You support fracking while giving lip-service to climate change? You want Keystone XL approved, despite the fact that it will run the worlds dirtiest fuel through our breadbasket and over our main aquifer in a pipeline that is dead-bang guaranteed to leak? You endorse the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement? Youre satisfied with the barren lack of accounting meted to the Wall Street brigands who stole our future? Youre down with a third war in Iraq? Wait, you dont support all that? But you wont stand against it, because youre afraid of losing votes or campaign money? My heroes. - William Rivers Pitt
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:27:45 +0000
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