Reply #18: Your post is very insightful. [View All]

[Karmadillo]

I think you pretty much have it right. As much as I like to project all sorts of progressive intentions on the Democrats, I'm not so sure these days they're really all that interested, the Party taken as a whole, in being progressive. It's bad enough they leave easy issues like gas prices on the table, but it's really, really bad they leave life and death issues like climate change and the war in Iraq on the table.

Someone posted something the other day by Jim McGovern that noted you can't build a movement by showing up every four years and asking for support. You have to work at it full time. The Democrats, for better or worse, aren't working at it full time. As you note, people are aware the gop isn't the best thing in the world for the country, but there's not much reason to believe the Democrats would be substantially better (of course, Bush et al are so bad, the Democrats would be substantially better, but they sure aren't out there making the case).