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repeating the bullying mantra that votes should be owed based on the letter after the name. A manipulative attempt to *shame* others based on this corporate perversion of what should define political loyalty. 'We would vote for your candidate based on the letter! You should vote for ours!"
This OP is a textbook example of Third Way propaganda that continues to try to pervert our fundamental understanding of democracy. To pervert the very meaning of the electoral process by pretending that it is the most natural thing in the world to detach political loyalties from policies and principles and attach it instead to team label.
This is what happens when corporations buy democracies. They try to make us forget the purpose of elections as civic exercise to find the candidate who best represents the people's needs. They try to turn it into vapid team sport instead, in which only the logo and the letter after the name matter.
No. The party must offer something worth voting FOR.
Simply having the D after the name does not mean a vote has been earned.
We have experienced a corporate coup in this nation. The current set of corporate policies - war, economic, police state - is not just less than optimal. It is predatory. It is impoverishing and murdering, dismantling democracy and replacing it with soulless corporate rule.
That's no exaggeration. Millions have been driven into poverty as a result of neoliberal and neocon policies. Our middle class is gone. We have scenes like this now in the United States of America, we lead among "developed" nations in child poverty, and all new wealth is being funnelled to the very top. Corporate Democrats have aggressively enabled all of it, just as they enable the draining of our treasury into the MIC for bloody wars of profit. This is the cancer of candidates who are corporate-owned.
CNN: Homeless encampments known as "tent cities" are popping up across the country.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/16/pf/tent-city/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6262949
We also live in a surveillance state now, and dissent is being crushed.
The agenda Hillary stands for and will continue promises even more of this vicious predation of the 99 percent by the one percent. Our nation can't afford it anymore.
It's more important than ever to remember why we have elections and political parties, and to reject craven corporate attempts to normalize the perversion of our elections into vapid team sport in which loyalty is demanded based on team color, without regard to political agendas that affect the welfare of countless human beings.