Face Facts, Our Democratic Leadership Is Ill-Prepared For This Fight [View All]

[Yavin4]

They're not prepared to take on the corporate and right-wing media. They don't have any ideas of their own. They only want to moderate Republican ideas. They have no respect for the Democratic base and take us for granted. They're willing to throw any member of their base, unions(free trade agreements), Gays and Lesbians(Defense of Marriage Act), the elderly (Social Security Privitization), the working and middle class(Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy), the young(education cuts), and the truth(De-Regulation of the media), over board to the please the almighty, moderate, swing voter. To me, the only purpose that the Democratic leadership serves is to convince Democrats to accept Republican ideas.

Spare me the "you're-not-a-team-player" and "don't-criticize-the-leadership" posts. If you can't understand that the Democratic leadership in Washington needs to be changed, then the fight is lost long before it begins. Right now, no one, NO ONE, in Washington represents your interests, your values, and your issues. NO ONE. Not the courts, not the media, not the government, and esp. NOT THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS. The only thing that the DLC does is convince Democrats to not be Democrats. We're fighting a war without leaders.

Hell, the insurgents in Iraq have better leaders than we do.