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Can the Democratic Party be saved?

by Dave Lindorff (excert and link)
Dave, who had been a staunch Democrat for years, hopes others will join him and quit the Democratic Party.

He hopes that by quitting, the people will finally send the Lesser Evil Party a message that will be heard.
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October 12, 2007
Dave Lindorff

Can the Democratic Party be saved?

That is a question that exasperated progressive Democrats across the country are increasingly asking themselves and each other.

Last November, when Democrats took control of both houses of Congress—fairly decisively in the House and by a whisker in the Senate—there was widespread relief in progressive circles. Anti-war activists thought there would finally be an end to President Bush’s criminal enterprise in Iraq. Civil libertarians thought that finally the Bush/Cheney administration’s Constitutional depredations would be undone, and that perhaps one or both men would be put in the dock of an impeachment panel in the House.

They couldn’t have been more wrong.

(Continued)

READ THE REST AT DAVE LINDORFF"S WEBSITE CALLED THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!

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