Reply #27: It doesn't matter if "NC dems need all the votes they can get". Voters have seen that [View All]

[salguine]

when they vote for Democrats, they get fucked over. They're fed up with it. What this shows is that people are finally starting to come around to the fact that, a few heroic principled individuals notwithstanding, the Democratic Party has utterly abandoned the People and is no more interested in their concerns than the Republicans are. The People are doing something about it. Who can blame them? I think it's great. Hemorrhaging voters to the point where they can't win elections is the only thing that will get the Democratic Party's attention.

And let's stop once and for all with this stupid "take votes from North Carolina Democrats and help put repubs into office" crap. We've been through this for years with Nader. What could be more arrogant than just assuming that those votes somehow belong to Democrats? The sense of unearned entitlement is just breathtaking. News flash: THEY DON'T OWN THOSE VOTES. The Democrats have to work for, and earn, those votes just like anyone else. If they want people to vote for them, they'd better start giving people reasons to vote for them. For quite some time now all they've given people are reasons to STOP voting for them.

Right now progressive voters—hell, even plain old liberal voters—have spent too much time, in this relationship with the Democratic Party, like long-abused spouses who are simply unable to get up and leave. This dysfunctional relationship has finally reached the point where a lot of those spouses are finally starting to walk out. It's really kind of hard for me to get upset about that, because I can't help but feel happy for anyone who finally stands up for themselves and decides they're tired of being used and taken advantage of, only to be betrayed at every turn.

Good for North Carolina. If it costs the Democrats a few elections, maybe they'll wake the fuck up. If they don't start to do some soul-searching soon and purge the corporatists and DLCers from the Party, I really don't care if they go the way of the Whigs and Know-Nothings, for all the good they do anymore.