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Showing Original Post only (View all)WHOOMP, there it is. [View all]
I've been reading several of the posts and threads by our fine, ever so sensible, centerist friends here who are admonishing us that a chained CPI isn't really that big a deal, that we have to give something to get something, that we need to turn out in droves for the Democratic party in 2014 and beyond, and that we should, above all, not hold the Democratic party responsible in any way for this, and certainly we shouldn't punish them by not supporting them.
The essentials of that message that they are delivering is this, the Democratic party above all, including the wishes of the people, or the best interest of the people. Just put the party above all that, and it will all be good, we promise.
In fact that has been the message of the Democratic party, and those sensible woodchucks, for the past twenty years(or more). Put the party above the people, never mind that President Clinton is flushing away the manufacturing sector, or turning Wall Street into a casino, just keep voting that Democratic ticket, and all will be good.
Well, all hasn't been good as we can plainly see, and putting the party's interest above our own best interest has gotten us what, exactly? The ability to say, "Well, it could have been worse, the 'Pugs could have been running things."
Sorry, but that simply isn't enough anymore.
We laugh at the Republican fools, the ones who vote against their own best interests, but have we taken a look in the mirror recently?
It is time that we all started voting in our own best interest, and start putting our own interest above the party. No more party uber alles.
Will that mean that the Democratic party will lose, and the 'Pugs will gain? Yes, but in exchange for that short term pain, we can get some long term gain, namely a Democratic party that is much more responsive to our interest, a party that puts the will of the people above the party. In the extreme case, yes, the Democratic party could go the way of the Whigs, but would that really be such a bad thing? Nature and politics both abhor a vacuum, and another party on the left will rise to power, and being fresh and new and more dependent on the good will of the people, it would respond to the our wishes first and foremost. The Republican party went from nothing to the presidency in less than eight years, is that such a sacrifice to make for a better future.
Either way, a more responsive Democratic party, or an entirely new party, we the people would win.
So the time has come for all of us to decide, are we going to continue to put the party above the people, and thus watch as we all continue to slide into oblivion? Or will we take action to force the good of the people to be placed above the party? The choice is ours, choose wisely.