Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Thursday, August 24, 2006
You Tell Em'
Matt Taibbi has a very interesting essay on the DLC'ers in Rolling Stone. Excerpt:
The unspoken subtext of this increasingly bitter debate between the Democratic Party establishment and the supporters of people like Ned Lamont and Hillary Clinton's antiwar challenger, Jonathan Tasini, is a referendum ordinary people have unexpectedly decided to hold on the kingmaker's role of the holy trinity of the American political establishment -- big business, the major political parties and the commercial media. The irony is that it's the political establishment itself that has involuntarily raised the consciousness of its disenfranchised voters.

The surge in support for Lamont initially came from people motivated by two simple things -- a desire to protest the war in Iraq, and physical revulsion before the wrinkled, vengeful persona of Joe Lieberman. But the party, in fighting back, attacked not on the issues but on the means of protest -- blogs, grassroots activism, Lamont's independent wealth. In doing so, it threw into relief the essential parameters of the problem, which is this: The Democratic Party has been operating for two decades without the active participation of its voters. [my emphasis]
Damned straight.

It's why anyone who solicits money from the DSCC or the DCCC gets zilch from this wallet. My money goes to those candidates who believe in, like, real democracy, not some corporate variation run by so-called "moderates", made popular during the internet bubble and by a persona (Clinton), not an ideology.
Written at 5:42 PM by Greyhair.
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Blogger Lynne said...
Amen.
4:38 AM  
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