May 23, 2006

Quick Note To the DNC and The DLC*

Sunday, 28 Reckning 2006

I notice that you seem to pretend to be confused by the lack of popular support for your positions within the membership of the Democratic Party. Especially about the part where good Democratic supporters hand over tons of cash to the DNC and the DLC, and the DNC and DLC pretends to support progressive candidates while ruthlessly suppressing anything but the DNC and DLC party line positions and candidates in elections.

Sorry to tell you here (where you probably won't take the time to check it out - I am probably considered one of those desktop campaign manager-wannabes which you contemptuously dismiss without any thought), but you somehow don't seem to be listening when I reply to your pleas for more money with "no money for spineless wimps who support the Illegally Installed Drunken Cokeheaded Deserter more often than not". Your main redeeming feature at this time is that you're not one hundred percent in lockstep with your fellow rich elitist bastiches in the Repugnicant Party. Then again, their cadence seems to be little off lately (they don't seem to be quite in lockstep all the time these days), so I can't give you all that much credit for your pretense of opposition. Funny how it all comes down to the mean green, innit?

Also please bear in mind that this in no way is any sort of endorsement for any of the Repugnicant iceholes trying to hang on to their cushy government jobs. Or any of the others who keep on sending their useless duffs back to DC. In all probability I will be holding my nose and voting for Levin or Stabenow (whichever is up for re-election to the Senate) and against any Repugnicant bastiches on the ballot. It would be nice, IMHO, if there were more progressive choices available as realistically electable alternatives. And it would be nice if the Democrats thought they should be the ones offering that alternative, and should throw their support behind said progressive candidates.

Until then, it's the considerably lesser of two evils that gets my vote. And that would be those of you in the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Leadership Council that keep trying to turn the Democratic Party into the Repugnicant Lites. Here's some thoughts: maybe you could try and work with Howard Dean a lot more; maybe you could try and listen to the grass roots more instead of telling them how to think and what to do (in their own backyard, so to speak); maybe you could support dark horse candidates like Paul Hackett who are begging you to let them help you win some elections; and maybe you could be a little more welcoming to those who would like to help the Democratic Party at least get a seat at the table in the next two years. I know how hard it is to accept honest criticism - much less help that shows up at your door like Alex and his droogies. But there are a lot of people out in the American wilderness who see an out of touch partisan when they look at any of their congress critters - and you're not helping things any by playing the Repugnicants' game in Washington DC. Or acting like the privileged rich elitists that virtually every politician in the capital is, regardless of party affiliation.

I'd love to be able to believe that you care about more than staying in the good old politicians club at all costs. But I would prefer to be a little less blind in my faith - and, while I'm thinking about getting that fancy laser surgery for my eyes, I don't think it would help me to see you any better.

Please stop playing the same old song and dance in DC.

* - quick being a relative term here - as compared to your average political fund raising letter, this is a Post-It note...

Posted by (: Tom :) at May 23, 2006 12:00 AM