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In reply to the discussion: A Party that loses an election and blames voters for not showing up at the polls . . . [View all]Dems2002
(509 posts)Great, be angry at people who have nothing and have no hope of getting anything more through the corrupt political process. There's a reason even many of the Kennedy family have chosen to work from without rather than within -- they think they can do more.
People are cynical for good reason -- no matter who's been in charge over the past two decades, the plight of the middle and lower classes has gotten worse. Obama is the one who even opened the door to cutting Social Security benefits that are already miserly as it is.
At the same time, there's a reason the monied interests didn't even bother to spend money to defeat minimum wage measures in conservative states. They didn't stand a chance of winning.
If liberal issues are winning but Democratic candidates are losing, maybe it's time to face reality -- our party is not the party of the people or liberal issues. We're a party of wishy-washing, poll testing wimps who are terrified of pissing off the monied interests more than the people.