Reply #7: how do we choose between unity and change? [View All]

[welshTerrier2]

some say: we have to pull together ... some say: our party has been infested by a corporate cancer ...

and those, for so long, who have pointed fingers at this cancer, now see Lieberman running AGAINST THE PARTY ... we see Al From cozying up to a republican to get him to run for President as an Independent AGAINST THE PARTY ...

should we fight them or join with them in November? do we need to reclaim our party from forces hostile to our agenda or do we just join together in a group hug? if we win, what will we win?

how do we bring about the changes we need? can we accomplish anything and make real progress if we keep supporting an agenda we disagree with?

when you say "get in line and pull the rope", are we pulling republicans across the center line to our side or are we just hanging ourselves?

cheerleading for the TEAM sounds great; fighting for a TEAM that does not directly oppose our agenda sounds better ... what do we win if we elect people who continue to endorse the corporate agenda? what do we win if we continue to elect people who keep voting over and over and over and over for bush's war? how will "the TEAM" vote when war with Iran is put before them? have they told us yet or are they tap dancing again as they did and still do on Iraq?

i would love to deeply believe in party unity ... i would like to confidently endorse the TEAM ... i'm truly afraid, that in doing so, i am voting for the status quo which i believe we can ill afford ... how do we send a hard message to the Democratic Party that what is is NOT OK? we all want to win; we all should understand the power of unity; but i, for one, am not hearing the kind of statements that talk about the changes we need ... and from some, i am hearing genuine disunity ... again, i cite the "gang of 14"; i cite Lieberman's campaign; i cite Al From and the DLC attacks on progressives ...

if we support unity, it's often hard to see how we are not hiding our heads in the sand and denying that the Party's right wing has launched an all-out offensive for control ... making nice is, well, nice ... to quote Frank Burns: "it's nice to be nice to the nice." ... "getting in line" is one of those Kumbayah phrases that sounds good ... taking back control of a party strangled with corporate money sounds better ...