Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (191828)	6/17/2012 9:03:37 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543802

Many dems are not conceptualizing the problem in relation to the magnitude of its danger. I think the yellow dogs/ liberals get it, by and large, but the blue dogs seem to run the party. We dems are simply not fighting as hard as the right wing or with the same focus. The equation is that the right wing now has a road map to total victory by wiping out all resistance i.e. unions and limits on campaign contributions, and wiping out the dems voice in all politics is their goal. That is not a recipe for trying to compromise. The right wing started this fight 40 years ago with Lee Atwater's southern strategy, took it up a notch with raygun and his union busting and now stand on the edge of controlling all three branches of government. And we can see what their agenda is. FDR had to fight for the New Deal, women for the vote, African American's for civil rights, workers for unions. And people should have fought the Third Reich. Sometimes a fight is your only option. <<Delusional democrats; what is wrong with these guys? Either zero gets done, or the Dems move right again, cuz Rs will not go left. To Lizza, Obama’s aides discuss a victory in November “not in sweeping terms of realignment but simply as an opportunity to nudge Republicans away from a policy of pure obstructionism and toward some limited compromise around a few key issues.” Plouffe tells Lizza that “if both chambers are more evenly divided, it could be a recipe for actually getting some things done. Because of the closeness, neither party’s going to be able to do anything on its own, so either zero gets done for two years or there is kind of a center.” Read more http://www.newyorker.com/services/presscenter/2012/06/18/120618pr_press_releases#ixzz1y3MwHiwE