You want an honest answer? well here it goes:
KoKo (1000+ posts)
Sun Oct-03-10 07:23 PM
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WHAT THE **** IS IT? WHY CAN'T WE (DEMS) EVER WIN?
the TeaParty Stuff has BIG MEDIA CAMPAIGN AND BUZZ.
This is ordinary people. Folks here on DU and elsewhere trashed "United for Peace and Justice" and "A.N.S.W.E.R" for all the marches they sponsored around the USA to stop the Invasion of Iraq and after we Invaded Iraq the mass marches went on for years. But, there was backlash by Dems here and the Dem Party about it.
You really have no idea how you're viewed by the average American, the average American loves their Country, they believe in the goodness of this Country, they don't harbor resentment if someone is financially more successful than they are because they realize that America is great and anyone can become anything they want, whereas Regressivism makes people feel as if they're owed something, you take away the hope and desire that people have.
Folks trashed both organizations and they eventually got into a turf war and aren't able to organize anything these days that matched what they did for those of us out here who were so angry we didn't know what to do. They had the permits they had the organizers...but they are both more for Global Human Rights and that didn't sit well with many folks here and across the Democratic Landscape so they trashed the organizations and much of the funding for both got cut when Kerry ran.
Those organizations represent the extreme in your party, they don't represent the average American.
We in the Dem Party on the Left (which used to be mainstream)you went too far left, DUmmie. have tough times to deal with. Money cut waiting for Obama to fulfill his promise and a Media that is the worst it's ever been ...even worse than the "McCarthy Era" where you were put on a "List."
You're not Liberal, true Liberals believe in things like free speech, Regressivism would limit speech it disagrees with.
Anyone here who thinks they AREN'T on a LIST is a DREAMER. It's worse than McCarthy...and it could go even darker without loosly coalesced groups who showed up in DC Today.
I'm not figuring Comedians are going to save us...but ordinary people. The Comedians will get coverage and Lookers but the GRASSROOTS are those people who turned out in DC Today! Underfunded but sincere...trying to get Obama to listen to them...because they are hurting and disappointed that this Administration promised so much...but the delivery seems to not be working out well for them. Maybe if the Obama Administration/Dem Party had Obama's back then there would have been huge push back over the Negative Tea Party/Koch/Murdoch funded outrage.
Ordinary people lean right not left, and why is it grassroots when the left does it? but when the right, which is a truly grassroots effort, when we do it we're called names by you on the left? why the need to demonize the grassroots from the right?
But....the fact is...Our Dem's let us down... The DLC Dems/Wall St. Wing of the Party...let us down..
Time and Again...they let us down. And, they have our Presiden'ts EAR... So what are we to do? We get rag tag groups together and do the best we can. Even though we have no FUNDING..for a PEOPLE's MOVEMENT...that didn't stop other groups in Civilizations HISTORY from getting CHANGE. Most times, though it mean things got so bad there was a REVOLUTION where people die...innocents die and sometimes the Dictators and Fascists gain the upper hand because the imbalances are so huge in the struggle.
Maybe you should try to start showing love for the greatest Country in the world?
HOW CAN WE BREAK THROUGH?
You can't, your message doesn't resonate with the average American.
