God bless
Meteor Blades. Blades is right -- we cannot stop to feel sorry for themselves.
But God bless Maryscott as well. She's right, too -- there is no party in Washington that represents the majority of the American people. There's the lunatic right GOP, and then the accomodationist right Dems. The center is finally and completely gone.
We can't start winning elections until we fire the Liebermans and Bidens of the party, because the voters rightly perceive that our party doesn't stand for anything beyond winning elections. Millions of people have voted for Democrats for a generation specifically to insure that the rightwing nutjobs wouldn't take over the Supreme Court and overrule Roe, and today the Democrats paid them back by dropping their pants and grabbing their ankles.
I love Howard Dean but I can't give another dime to the DNC as long as these assclowns might be reaping the benefit.
It's time for the netroots to embrace the message of
Crashing the Gate and overthrow the existing power structure in the Democratic Party. We cannot succeed as a third party, but we can do what the fundies did to the GOP and run well-funded candidates against every Vichy Dem in every primary available to us. And we must, as they will continue to fuck us over again and again until they either get forced out or else figure out that the rules have changed.
I'd like to see this movement operate under a specific name, to counter the DLC. Comments here would be a great place for suggestions.
And while we're learning the art of pushing, let's also embrace Dan Savage's suggestion of pushing for a privacy amendment to the Constitution. Let the fundies see how they feel about being branded anti-privacy. In the wake of Alito's unpopular confirmation and the NSA spying scandal, a privacy amendment would likely be a great wedge issue for us. Let the push begin today.
So, in summary: fire the appeasers, then take back the country. In that order.