Maddow: The Reason the Democratic Party Exists
In one of her better segments, Rachel Maddow talked about the fact that the Democratic Party is getting a big reminder this week with just who their base is and that it would do them some good to quit chasing after corporate money and start representing them. As she noted, what's going on in Wisconsin and Ohio and around the country has meant a resurrection for public support of labor unions and progressive groups and that Democrats on the local level are standing with their constituents. She asked when those on the national level and President Obama are going to wake up as well.
She gave a nice plug to all of these groups as well. Thank you Rachel.
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Obama and the Democratic party are not going to wake up , they figure they can win with the Independents and that the left have no viable option but to vote Democrat , they are center right / right of center , the traditional Democratic party is about dead .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
That's exactly why I voted for Cynthia McKinney in '08. I was incredibly saddened by the massive wave of support for Obama and Clinton by liberals. After 8 years of Bush (and 20 preceding years of Clinton/Bush/Reagan) we needed a true progressive liberal to steer the ship back on course. Now, after the past 3 years of Obama and our new GOP wave of leadership we need a Bernie Sanders or Dennis Kucinich just to get back to where we were in '08. Wisconsin voted out Russ Feingold last year with a few other really strong Democrats and now they're reaping the rewards of their political ignorance. Next election hopefully they'll pay attention before they vote. Hopefully in 2016 Obama voters will do the same (2012 I'm all for Obama since our only other option will be Fox News pundits).
As Rachel noted, the parties are meant to counter each other which is why I have a lot of respect for conservative philosophies (real conservatives, not theocratic/prosperity gospel/bigots) but we've had decades of Republican or Republican-lite and no Democratic leadership. I fear we've turned right so far in this country we're going in reverse.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
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