Reply #39: Democrats have never been a unified, lock step party like the Pugs. [View All]

[amandabeech]

Never.

I've nearly walked out on my party, or claimed that it walked out on me, more times than I can count in my 54 years.

However, since Clinton's victory in '92, the party seems to have dumped the working person and the poor person to a shocking extent. These are the people who used to be a major force in the Democratic coalition.

Now, they've been kicked under the bus for the folks with money on the coasts, and that includes the North Coast from which Obama hails.

I considered myself retired in '92 after Tom Harkin's inability to win primaries with an economic appeal directly to folks who were hurting during that recession, but I came back for Obama.

What happens then? Obama and the Dem Congress give the banksters everything that they want and get nothing in return. Oh, yeah, our return is a crappy, and I mean crappy, insurance bill that takes all the attention away from the even crappier financial reform bill.

I used to think that the Dems were always better than letting the Pugs totally screw things up.

Now I'm wondering if it really matters.

Recession, war, big money. It's all beginning to look the same.

Oh, I know I'll be back, but I'm not complaining about people getting ready to throw in the towel these days.

There's a lot to be angry and disappointed about with what's going on in the party now.