What Are The Reasons Why The Dems Sell Out?

[ihavenobias]

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Cenk also wrote about this yesterday at Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/memo-to-senate-democrats_b_83192.html

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[Nite Owl]

1. He could very well

be right. The DC dems are so insulated, they are in their own little world and they seem to rely on the msm for their news, they don't go further because they don't want to be 'labeled' as kooks or liberals. They never seem to see the whole picture because they are part of it all.

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[Phred42]

2. It's past time for a Third party

View itfrom this angle and everything the Dems have done makes sense:

The Dems are and have been the Silent Partners of the Neocons and Corporations. Most of them ARe part of the Oligarchy.

[mac2]

3. Yes but there is hope...

http://www.john08.com/ This candidate ran against Hastert and should have defeated him but he got no support from the DLC since he was anti-war.

Hastert's land fraud was not exposed by our local newspaper since it is Conservative (Chicago Tribune).

I hope he wins this time around.

Melissa Bean who defeated Crane has been a disappointment so there are people running against her.

Both Obama and Clinton are from Chicago. Both are part of the obligarchy or they wouldn't have suppport of the Chicago Tribune. I won't support anyone supported by that newspaper now.

I want Kucinich policies (except for blanket amnesty) but would vote for Edwards. Health care, the economy, and the war are concern of mine.

[Phred42]

4. DAmn Good Points mac2

In fact I live in the 8th District and agree that Bean was a major disappointment. In her first year in Office she voted WITH Delay on every MAJOR issue. I will be voting against her in the Primaries.

Edwards All the Way

[bbgrunt]

5. there is ONE good reason why they might

believe any threat coming from this administration--think about it.

[ihavenobias]

6. Do you mean

*actually* believe or *want* to believe?

[bbgrunt]

8. ..no, I mean believe it. Why are they

so willing to believe? If they suspect lihop or mihop they have every reason to believe threats.

[frog92969]

9. And if they don't cough up the goods

and give Bu$h what he wants they risk looking "weak on terror", and getting smacked down with another "terrorist attack" to prove their folly.

I'll buy that easily.

[D23MIURG23]

11. I don't follow you...

what are lihop and mihop?

[tblue37]

12. "Let it happen on purpose" and "Made it happen on purpose"--

referring to 9/11 and the theory that the administrationw as complicit. Either LIHOP or MIHOP, if true, would mean that these thugs are capable of anything to get what they want, so the Dems are afraid to cross them too much. Also, there is the small matter of the anthrax attacks, which seemed to target Dems only.

[depakid]

7. Painfully stupid

that certainly applies to my Congress critter....

[pat_k]

10. Group think -- collective denial and shared delusion -- is a pwerful thing.

And at the heart of almost all the current delusional "conventional wisdom" is the belief that impeachment -- the ONE thing that can put us back on the path of sanity -- can't, won't, or shouldn't be demanded.

OUr so-called "leaders" occupy a world in which absurd assumptions go unquestioned, and beget even more wrong-headed assumptions . . . until their created "reality" = the opposite of reality.

"You can't fix stupid" (Ron White). But you can break through denial. Outsiders can -- and are -- injecting reality.

For more, see http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/23">Impeachophobia and http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=337814">Collective denial and shared delusion are that powerful.