Can't Decide Whether to Abandon the Democrats or Not? You Don't Have to Decide, Actually

From the article linked to below:

"Meanwhile, at the grassroots, many progressives are apt to buy into a false choice between capitulating inside the Democratic Party or staying away from it. But there's another option: an inside/outside strategy that involves openly fighting for progressive power within the party while also organizing outside of it."

Not to mention that those who refuse to face the music regarding the total and complete failure of the Democratic party can, until a new party shows it can win at least one federal election, be in two parties at once: the Democratic and the new one: the New Democratic Party or American Party or whatever marketable name is chosen. (Your registration is a meaningless technicality; you can always work within as many parties as you want.)

As to this article as a whole, I agree with all of it.

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The Fifty Million Stooges

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johnny u January 21st, 2010 2:12 am
It's simple, folks. As soon as the economy teetered in 2008, people began having basic questions and doubts about the form of our capitalist economy. Polls then showed that a sizeable minority of voters under 30 preferred a socialist system.

What to do, then, if you're part of the capitalist elite who hears the faint hoof beats of the proletariat from somewhere out in the distance? Well, invent a white working class icon like a Joe Plumber and get him over to Uncle Rupert to give him a forum for his rants on Fox News. Poor, underachieving, and angry Joe, so typical of those right wingers who rage in the streets, decried redistributionist economics and became hugely popular among latent racists looking for a pretext to slam Obama.

Then the tea teabaggers appeared, not out of nowhere, but through the monied mediation of the elite interests that so cringed at the same sound of the distant hoof beats. The elites sensed a creeping loss in the capitalist faith, so they had to put a brake on real populism. They spent millions to organize average citizens into a venomous street army that demonized any doctrine save laissez-faire capitalism.

The tea partiers achieved their masters' aims by making it seem wrong for people to expect basic economic justice. With carefree abandon, they misused terms like socialism, fascism. dictator, and even communism. Their bombast served to divert the proletariat's mind from the true makers of the current crisis, those who would make war and money without end.

Later, Rupert Murdoch set Fox News after Acorn. Crippling Acorn's funding sources would disempower about the only institution left that can organize the poorest of Americans for their political or economic betterment. The threat of real political power in the hands of the poor when the economic system is trembling is something that Murdoch and his elite can not tolerate.

If Obama had addressed the concerns of these disgruntled folks by using his oratorical skills to put a national spotlight on where the blame belonged, then perhaps some of the unfocussed rage could have been harnessed by a true populist movement. But, Obama allowed the progressive groups that got him elected to wither through neglect, as he knew that cultivating their power after they had served his electoral purpose could check him from becoming the corporate and military headmaster that he probably planned to be all along. For that reason, he has not forged a clear line of demarcation between the forces of greed and militarism that produced the national crises and the progressive ideology that could defeat faux populists and underline a new system of values and laws that would make people hope and work for a better day.

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This was an extra outstanding exposition that I was glad to organize into paragraphs and to which make a few grammatical corrections. I especially love this description of how and why the "tea partiers" (and Fox News) are just stooges for the rich and powerful. At one time it was the "Three Stooges", but now it's more like the 50 Million Stooges.

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What Besides the Police Force Actually has Real Capabilities in Haiti?

Again, I repeat that Haitians, particularly the ones who have left Port-au-Prince, should use this opportunity to declare a new Haiti (with a new constitution). If they did this, things in New Haiti or North Haiti or whatever could not possibly be any worse than they have been until now: a gigantic slum overseen by a puppet, killer regime run by Washington and the international corporations and the international financial organizations.

As just one specific example where improvement can come (time for more is totally lacking at the moment) in the Preval dictatorship, how much money was provided for the Health Ministry? Almost nothing, assuming there was a truly functioning Health Ministry in existence at all. How about a Health Ministry in a New Haiti or a North Haiti that actually provides real assistance to people?

Why is it that the only Haitian Government operation up and running to any degree a week or so after the quake was the police force? You may already know the answer: the Preval government was nothing more than a stooge for the US and the corporations and was clearly an enemy of the people of Haiti.

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