| It should be obvious by now that milquetoast Democrats going with the flow of corporate establishments will lose races in the post crash/bailout environment.
People are really hurting, and even those not really hurting are scared shitless. The Republicans have been brilliantly evil in exploiting these fears.....and Democrats like John Corzine and Barak Obama and now Martha Coakley are paying the price for not having the chops to run as AGGRESSIVE PROGRESSIVES. Until and unless Democrats do that....they/WE will continue to lose elections. That is 100% guaranteed.
In good times the bullshit walked....and people put up with the legalized theft and corruption in the system because they were relatively content with the crumbs that fell their way.......but now there is REAL economic and social dislocation. People's LIVES are at stake because they're losing their health coverage and can't afford to buy in outside of an employer subsidized group plan.
The Republicans under were the chief proximate CAUSE of all of these problems.....but President Obama has insisted on being a nice guy and bipartisan and not truly taking the lead on calling them out on the last eight years of corporate looting under the Bush administration..........instead he played footise with the same corporate interests and socialized their losses by printing and borrowing money on the backs of future taxpayers and gave the big banks interest FREE TRILLIONS to invest and play with.......meanwhile main street was/is still in agony while the fat cats get fatter and fatter and laugh all the way to their bailed out banks and seven or even eight figure "bonuses".
Instead of running as a progressive progressive as some of us here had been openly imploring Jon Corzine to do....he ran as an Obamacrat at a time when Obama was way way way off course.
Thew bum who won in Massachusetts is about the same type as the bum who won here. In normal times neither would have got far.......but with Democrats running as compromised milquetoasts and aroused and pissed off and angry and disgusted electorate came of of the woodwork and dealt the Democratic establishments crushing defeats......and yet we STILL see a stupid dense idiotic reluctance to face reality.
Meanwhile the real base of the party, progressive grassroots activists (who aren't just wannabe hacks looking for jobs for themselves) are understandably despirited because they all knew EXACTLY what was wrong with Obama, and Corzine and Coakley.....and no one listened.
We might as well have elected Rahm Emanuel to the presidency
Unless NJ Democrats, ordinary grass roots progressive Democrats, literally take over the New Jersey Democratic party from the ground up...we are screwed. This idea/assertion is nothing new. People have been saying that here for YEARS......and often they caught a lot of crap from the machine toadies for doing it.
Running with the corporations and with the machines will result in the loss of the house and senate and presidency by 2012.......and rest absolutely ASSURED that in that scenario, the Republicans WILL change the cloture rules allowing them to pass what they want.
There's virtually nothing in the following link that hasn't been said by me and many other progressives over the last YEAR!!! But it's a well written and well organized piece that deserves to be read and to be studied..........and maybe some here will be able to absorb it given that it's coming from a stranger with no "history" here.
And while it is written with the national agenda in mind...I dare say it all applies to New jersey politics and speaks to the spirit of what we progressives have to support at all levels throughout the state.
http://www.prosperityagenda.us...
This is just a snip....
The Democrats have turned off their voting base. In all three elections the reason for defeat was turnout. People who voted for Obama in 2008 stayed home in 2009 and 2010. Unlike Republicans, who work to excite their base with red meat, right wing issues, the Democrats take their base for granted assuming they have no where else to go. Now they are paying a price, but the price will get higher if they do not learn the obvious lessons from these three elections: excite your base, challenge big business and demonstrate the change in direction by re-making the White House. |
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