Thom Hartmann and other True Progressives Catch up to Common Dreams

The following was in response to this article.

Well we are ahead of you here at Common Dreams, Mr. Hartmann, because a lot of us here have for weeks and in some cases for months saying Obama will probably (or most likely) lose in 2012. And we have been virtually unanimous in saying this law is an abomination for months. Nice to see everyone catching up to Common Dreams, it’s better late than never.

With the advent of this unprecedentedly bad law, the progressives can't play games and hide behind Obama’s slick pimping anymore. Either they create a new party that is marketable (can't use "Socialist" or "Green" or “progressive” trashed by right wing propaganda words like that in the name of it) or they just remain corporate serfs. It’s either new party or fascism with medieval tendencies, one or the other.

And yes, even though I don't know the details, I am well aware that anti-democratic and unconstitutional state laws are designed to prevent third parties from getting on the ballot. But if you have a new organization that almost overnight has ten million or more followers, which you could achieve, those petty state laws would become irrelevant to a large degree, either because the new party could jump over all the hurdles in those anti-democratic laws, or because the new party would have enough legal clout to get those laws declared unconstitutional and tossed out.

So as far as I am concerned, there are no excuses for anyone in this fiasco including progressives. Progressives can never ever vote Democratic again (assuming they are not living under a bridge and unable to vote thanks to Obama) and they need to start a new party, such as for example New Democrat Party (US). Hint: start it before you are living under the bridge.