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To: sea_urchin who wrote (291)	9/24/2005 5:48:41 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 418

Re: "The Democratic Party has an identity crisis on this issue. We need voices. We need leadership," Andrews said. "But fear... ...of Israel is driving them."

To: sea_urchin who wrote (291)	9/25/2005 8:47:16 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 418

> The Democratic Party has an identity crisis .... uruknet.info >>The leadership of the Democratic Party never tires of their role as doormat to their Republican overlords. I know the Democratic Party; I worked in the party for 3 years as program chairman. The people at the grassroots are as fine as anyone you will ever meet. They are overwhelmingly against the Patriot Act, the Iraq war, the unlimited incarceration of terror suspects, NAFTA, and the abuse of detainees. But the goals and aspirations of these people will not be realized through the vehicle of the Democratic Party. The party system is as clogged, arthritic and unresponsive to change as their mirror-image the Republicans. The party has been co-opted by elites who set the agenda and subvert any effort to upset the status quo. They endorse the same imperial horrors as their rivals, albeit with greater eloquence and diplomacy. The conventional channels for transforming the political organism have all shut down; the system is broken. As soothsayer Chris Floyd said, "We are alone". The only avenue for political change is massive popular movements that disrupt "business as usual" and send tremors into the corporate towers. Democracy won't reappear in the form of Hilary Clinton or Howard Dean. Forget-about-it. We're looking at a decades-long struggle to reestablish fundamental human rights and stop the incessant whirring of the war-machine. We need foot-soldiers not politicians.<<