Lynn Woolsey Should Resign as Head of the Progressive Caucus

The 2008 election was a head-to-head between liberals and the DLC (pro-corporate, DINOs). The problem was that the base thought that voting for Obama meant the end of the DLC (Clintons). No sooner did Obama win than he hired all of the Clintonites (DLC), & squeezed out Howard Dean (responsible for the 50-state strategy that won it for Obama) - More on Dean, who is NOT a liberal, later.



Obama stole the Clintons' strategy (to vanquish the left from the Democratic Party, & bring in moderate Republican politicians and voters who can't abide the fringe rightwingers controlling the Republican Party), with some minor tweaks.



The plan is to move the Democratic Party to the right by alienating, marginalizing, breaking up the different interest groups within the liberal base of the Democratic party (civil libertarians, anti-war, pro-choice, etc.), drive them out of the party and bring moderate Republicans (both politicians who can't deal with the Republican Party's base, the evangelical Christians, who are controlling their party & moderate Republican voters, like Susan Eisenhower) into the Democratic Party. To have a centrist party which would govern for 100+ years.



This was the Clintons' plan (and why I think Bill Clinton was so angry with Obama) because Obama stole the plan with a minor change -- Obama is going for a couple of special interest groups within the Republican Party in a bigger way (defense industry hawks) and one of which Clinton could never hope to bring over (Christian Republicans).
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Bart Stupak: Abortion Language In Health Care Bill Is A Must

Who should decide what you need versus what you want?



Who should make that decision in a free society? Who should make that decision in the United States?
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Obama Health Care Speech: It's Time To Act

Nader also swung NH Bush's way & had Gore won NH, Florida would have been irrelevant.

And had Kerry won New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, yada yada.

There is a sense of entitlement, an arrogance, that the political parties have, that we the People buy into, that really doesn't serve us (the People). I happen to think it conflicts with the very core of democracy It's that somehow only the candidates of these two parties are legitimate and "How dare anybody else challenge them?"

If we've learned nothing else from the last 20 years in American politics, it's that when you are not at the table, you're on the menu. And those in power do everything they can do to keep the interests of the individual American citizen off the table.

We make a lot of excuses for Democratic politicians. We hate to admit that Bill Clinton was not a friend to the People, to the little guy, and helped lay the foundation for Republicans' vision of our country & the world, & for what Bush&Cheney managed to do.

For whatever the reasons that Nader ran in either 2000 or 2004, his candidacy resonated with many voters whose interests were being ignored by both parties. So why blame Nader?

Only 50% of those who are eligible to vote in the US actually vote. If everybody voted, perhaps the People's interests would be served instead of the interests of transnational corporations. I think that if that 50% did vote (and voted for the candidate who would govern in their best interests), it would likely be Nader and not Yin (a DLC-controlled Democrat) Yang (a Republican).

We can go around and around (and I think it merits doing, discussing it, considering all of the angles), but I ultimately keep coming back to the same conclusion: A President Gore and a President Kerry just wasn't meant to be. Whatever the reason, neither wanted it enough, neither had the right stuff to make it happen. And, had it happened, perhaps there wouldn't have been a war in Iraq or the annihilation of New Orleans, but there would have been other catastrophes with plenty to complain about, just like during Clinton's time and Carter before him.

"... said the Zen Master"
About Barack Obama
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