Tuesday, February 14, 2006

see? we eat our young.

last night my agency hosted a small event for a popular congresswoman. it was a fabulous event but, inevitably, during the Q&A, questions arose about Democratic tactics and why, basically, we all think the DNC sucks for giving up on women and what we know are our issues.

(i even said to her, Frankly, if I have another fundraising call from the DNC I'm throwing my phone out the window until they get their act together.)

most of us in the room felt the same way and agreed with the very successful and well-connected business woman, whose father used to be a congressman, who heatedly ripped the Democratic party a new one. gamely, the congresswoman said that while we had valid points (and that our criticisms are widespread and nothing new) she basically said 'stop complaining and DO something.'

i agree. so what are we to do? we clearly have a party that doesn't hear us, doesn't listen to us, is dangerously out of touch with a lot of us and has the strategic instincts of a drunk behind the wheel of a car. in light of all their missed opportunities, half-hearted fights and fake populism, what's a progressive girl to do?

change parties.

Popular Ohio Democrat Drops Out of Race, and Perhaps Politics - New York Times

2 comments:

jp 吉平 said...

ya 'member that simpsons, when Kang and Konos replaced the Clinton and Gore, but when they were unmasked as alien replacements, they said, "What are you going to do, you have to vote for ONE of us!"

And then someone said, "I'm going to vote for a third party candidate!"

The aliens replied, "go ahead, throw your vote away!" and laughed maniacly.

Then, in the crowd, you can see Ross Perot punching a hole through his hat.

If you started third party now, how long would it be until this party elected an official? Until it defined a platform? Until it elected a president? Until it became taken seriously?

How long? I'll tell you how long.... long enough for the republicans to have us in cages, eating pellets and having babies cash.

If you want to protect us from the republicans NOW, we have to take back the democratic party.

Delia Christina said...

again, we (the people) are stuck between two evils: eat out the guts of our party to WIN, or watch the Repugs win AGAIN.

there is something so fucked up about this system!! there is something so seriously fucked up with our party leaders. my own party makes me feel like a whore, you know? or someone seriously mentally abused. we keep taking it, they keep apologizing (please, baby, baby) and we keep saying, well at least you're not as bad as the other guys.

but now i'm beginning to see that they are - they ARE just as bad! silence in the face of fascism is just as bad as fascism! incompetence in the face of hubris is just as dangerous! with the party in the state that it's in now, they'll unlock the cages themselves and meekly say, 'well, i'm sure it's for our own good...bleat, bleat, bleat.'

fuckers!