Reply #92: After watching all this closely [View All]

[KoKo]

since Clinton Impeachment, and hearing excuse afer excuse for why our Democrats haven't stood up (which started the day Clinton was elected, btw) and went on during Carter (if one looks back at the pattern)...I've come to the conclusion that "excuses" are all that's ever been offered for our party leaderships failure to support our own Democratic Candidates and our elected Democratic Presidents. I've been watching this since the Nixon days...I've made the same excuses myself over and over for why they haven't stood up.

But, it wasn't until Selection 2000 that I became active and joined in on the ground in the new "grassroots" effort to try to fix what seemed to be wrong that we were so "clueless" and "spineless" in supporting our own.

Now that I see what's happened with this November 2nd " Second Selection" and having been here on DU for over three years...reading it all, watching it all and working within the system for this election, I have to say there is a "planned quality" to it. Blaming a shift in the country from Blue States to Red with the rise of the Fundamental Christians is just the latest excuse. Why did that happen? What did our Democrats ever do to be a counterbalance. Why did Clinton support NAFTA as his first Presidential act..and why did he allow the Telecommunications Act of 1997 to occurr which put the final nail in the coffin for any balance of opinion in the US by taking away what little balanced media we had after Reagan deep sixed the "Fairness Doctrine." Why did Lieberman and Dodd of Connecticut get away with loosening SEC Regulations put in after the Great Depression which Clinton did veto but they over-rode his veto. These three "give aways" are what is most telling to me. And then that Clinton was hounded to give up documents and persecuted with WhiteWater (where they LOST money) which then went on to be Monica Gate and Impeachment. He gave them what they wanted, but they wanted him out. Yet, Bush did illegal stock deals where he MADE MONEY, had cronies who were involved in deals that would make a Mafia Don blush....and he's never had to give up any of his documents because of Executive Privilege/National Security.

Whatever this is...it's been going on since JFK...and I'm not being "tinfoilhat" or getting carried away with NeoCon plots, Strausian indoctrination, etc. (Although the evidence is there that all of this is a strong probability, in the absense of being able to explain our Democrats strange behavior all this time).

Just look around "Q" it's everywhere. The undermining of any Democratic Activism...and it's really venomous since Kerry Conceded. It's heavy on the internet in "activist organizing forums" even under our own beds.

It's a puzzle. I don't think we will find the answer...just the pieces that keep falling into place. I don't think we even know the Picture that we are trying to create with the pieces of the puzzle and that's why we can't correct what's wrong.

It's pretty much out of our hands now, though. We activists have have started an "awareness." Hopefully the questions will begin to be asked in places that have more influence than we here will have from now on. Maybe starting the "ball rolling" was more important than finding out where it needs to go, in the end. :shrug:

Thanks for asking this. It needed to be asked.