Reply #19: Are they too powerful at this time, or are "we" too corrupt and out of touch? [View All]

[kenny blankenship]

These are not the Democrats we were looking for. The New Deal didn't come about out of a sudden outpouring of good will and the restrained tolerance of capital, it came about because capitalism choked on its own filth and the people were forced to take the Masters of the Universe on directly, to secure their own survival. Health care reform will come about when our leaders creep out of the financial-insurance lobby's pocket and take them on directly in our name. Sadly it looks like the money is just too good for that to happen until, as occurred in the Crash and Depression of the Hoover era, raw necessity overwhelms the venal instincts of our current Democrats - or they are replaced in a wholesale electoral rout.