Democrats "are perceived as -- and are -- beholden to Wall Street, special interests, and the corporations they vowed to confront"

i'm back in the saddle, in a manner of speaking... after a very long friday night and all day yesterday spent traveling, a full 10+ hours of which were spent in layover (which in itself can be very tiring), i've now re-charged with 10+ hours of sleep and two cups of brazilian segafredo coffee, all backed by jazz from the public radio station in sacramento (ain't the internet grand?)...

besides a good night's sleep and coffee, there's nothing like reading glenn greenwald to bring me back to earth big-time...

[T]he Democratic Party now reaps what it has sown. Its message and identity are profoundly muddled, incoherent, unclear, uninspiring, and self-negating. Worse, its policies are mishmashes of inept half-measures that, with a handful of exceptions, produce little good for anyone (other than Wall Street, the Pentagon and other corporate interests). They are perceived as -- and are -- beholden to Wall Street, special interests, and the corporations they vowed to confront. They are without any ability to confront the massive unemployment crisis and financial decline the country faces. And as a result of all of that, they lay in shambles. Anyone who can survey all of that and cheer for the strategy which Democrats have been pursuing -- let's build our majorities by relying on GOP-replicating corporatist Blue Dogs -- or who thinks that this election loss happened because "Democrats are too liberal," resides in a world that has very little to do with reality. And that's true no matter how many times they repeat the simplistic snippets of exit polls to which they've obsessively attached themselves.

just more justification - as if we needed any - as to why our country is so broken... we have a two-party system completely and totally allied with the super-rich elites, elites who are intent on doing nothing but enhancing their power to monopolize the world's resources for their own benefit and to hell with anybody who gets in their way...

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