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In reply to the discussion: The imminent backlash of the Democratic Left. [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)You are heading toward 300 recs with this important OP, yet in all the discussion so far there is precious little mention of the real reason the Democratic Party in Washington is now inundated with thieves and liars.
Corporate money has corrupted the system. Corporatists have rewritten the rules for elections, balloting, debate access and "content," and campaign money. They created the slimy trails from K Street to Congress and the White House. They installed the revolving door to Wall Street through which so many of Obama's cronies are now exiting to become billionaires. They established the campaign system of corporate money that trashes any non-corporate candidate in the media. The DLC, and now the Third Way, are corporate manufactured, Koch-bankrolled corruption factories created for the sole purpose of replacing a government of, by and for the People with a government of, by, and for corporate interests. The system is rotten to the core because of money. Its STRUCTURE is corrupt to the core because of corporate money, corporate power, corporate rewards, and corporate restructuring of the rules of the game.
The corporate propaganda has done a marvelous, manipulative job of framing this debate constantly in terms of personalities and party loyalties. We are fed garbage about "pragmatism" and a "right-leaning electorate" and even pathological personal shyness or caution on the part of individual Democratic politicians...but it's all bullshit. This has nothing to do with personalities or individual politicians. It has to do with an entire system that is corrupted by corporate money, power, and purchased propaganda. The system SELECTS corporate sellouts and rewards them beyond their wildest dreams, and it destroys most alternatives before they even have a chance to get started.
The people are finally waking up to realize that our only power lies in our numbers, our unity, and our ability to refuse together to play by the rules of this rigged game.
We need to remember why we are in this place. When we jettison the wolves from our party, when we are able to grind the corrupt system to a halt in whatever form that takes, we need to focus first and foremost on STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND GETTING CORPORATE MONEY OUT OF ELECTIONS AND OUT OF WASHINGTON.
IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY.