- Walk away from the Democratic Party and back progressive, third party candidates until the Democrats feel enough heat to adopt our agenda. We must be willing to say no. If not, we become slaves. -- Chris Hedges
- 2010 Elections: Why Have the Democrats Lost Popular Support?
David Culver, ed., Evergreene Digest
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Eight False Things The Public “Knows” Prior To Election Day, Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future
- If the public votes in a new Congress that rejects the idea of helping to create demand in the economy because they think it didn't work, then the new Congress could do things that cause a depression.
- This stuff really matters.
- Five Things People "Know"
- People Are Allergic to the Facts
Duty to Warn: Lessons from History to Guide AntiFascist Voters, Gary Kohls, Evergreene Digest
- What Can Happen if We the People Let Down our Guard and Vote for Our Future Oppressors
- Excerpts, without comment, from Milton Mayer’s “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45”
- Advice for citizens who still have hope for America
Duty to Warn: Don't Vote for Your Future Oppressors, Gary Kohls, Evergreene Digest
- Who should freedom-loving people vote for?
- Advice for citizens who still have hope for America
Advancing the Progressive Agenda in November: Don’t Vote Dem! David W. Culver, Evergreene Digest
Walk away from the Democratic Party and back progressive, third party candidates until the Democrats feel enough heat to adopt our agenda. We must be willing to say no. If not, we become slaves.
The left has lost its nerve and its direction, Chris Hedges, Philadelphia Inquirer | PA
If the left wants to regain influence in the nation's political life, it must be willing to walk away from the Democratic Party, even if Barack Obama is the (president), and back progressive, third-party (officials) until the Democrats feel enough heat to adopt our agenda. We must be willing to say no. If not, we become slaves.
U.S. Midterms: Political Freak Show, Cliff Schecter, Huffington Post
I'm you, dear readers. Well, actually, I'm not. But I'm also not a witch, so at least I've got that going for me.
Ignorance as Authenticity, Joe Klein, Swampland
- There is something profoundly diseased about a society that idolizes its ignoramuses and disdains its experts.
- People Are Allergic to the Facts
Empire of Illusion, Jeff Dietrich, The Catholic Agitator
- It's all about spectacle and debauchery. People are so disconnected from reality that they don't know how to read what is happening--they cannot grasp that the walls are tumbling down--and so they retreat into absurdities. This is the disease gripping American society today.
- Building a Nation of Know-Nothings
- Lady Gaga: Pop Star for a Country and an Empire in Decline
Lessons of the Obama Debacle, Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus
- The failure of progressives (is) to translate their vision and values into a program that is convincing and connects with the people trapped in the terrible existential conditions created by the global financial crisis.
- Our side has been derailed (but) ... we can fight back to political relevance.
Anti-tax fervor undermines the common good, Neal Peirce, Syndicated columnist, Seattle Times | WA
- Facing yawning deficits, many years of tough sacrifice and reckoning lie ahead of us. But to use that as an excuse to eviscerate government functions left and right, or push down taxes just when government needs them to remain solvent, represents a strange kind of patriotism.
- The Myths of Austerity
- Hey Tea Party-Republicans: The Founders Are Not Your Guy
2010 Elections: Why Have the Democrats Lost Popular Support?, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun.org<http://www.tikkun.org/>
- What the Democrats Could Have Done
- Scaring Us To The Polls
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Oil company dollars are helping the signature-gathering campaign for Gov. Jerry Brown's ballot measure to raise taxes. (Los Angeles Times / March 25, 1997)
Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage giant, has placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates.
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(This year's) State of the Union response by Mitch Daniels was remarkable before he uttered a single word. Daniels’ response was the first to be delivered from a building surrounded by dozens of police cars and chanting activists, by a man on the cusp of delivering a body blow to workers’ rights. “We were surprised, frankly,” says Jeff Harris of the Indiana AFL-CIO, “that the Republicans would choose somebody who is in open war with his constituents and his citizens and put him up as the national speaker for the Republican Party.” For anyone who thought that progressive victories in Wisconsin and Ohio would lead the national Republican party to tone down the union-bashing, last night was a rude awakening.
