Reply #18: It would sure be interesting to see DU administration's attitude towards such a forum...

[arendt]

Off the top of my head, in no particular order or importance, here are some sellouts that I would like to see listed:

Topic: "Impeachment is off the table".
....This brings up the important question of how do you get sellouts on record when the sellout is the failure to even bring a bill up for consideration (either in a sub-committee, committee, or on the floor at large)?

The egregious acceptance of a committee to study "Homegrown Terrorism and Violent Radicalization" - read "thought police". This piece of police state garbage was voted through by something like 430-5. WTF was that about?

Not filibustering any of the war funding (another negative sellout).

Cave-in on the "stimulus (for banks and Wall St) package".

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Any of these topics are roundly criticized at DU, and there is never any doubt as to the legitimacy of that criticism.

The difference between scattershot criticism and an institutionally-supported forum that keeps a list permanently on display is the difference between "typical" and "normative" behavior. This difference is crucial in a democracy. For example, Christianity is "typical" in America; and that is fine. But the minute someone tries to make it "normative" (i.e., recognized by the government), we have theocracy.

My proposal for a forum is to make our recognition of the on-going sellout "normative".

I'd love to hear the reaction to this by the mods.

arendt