Progressives! Let's Stop Whining and Start Fighting Back

by Dave Lindorff Thursday, Dec. 09, 2004 at 7:09 PM
dlindorff@yahoo.com

Forget Red and Blue states. There are only voters, and most of them, in every state, are worried about war, want a world for their grandchildren, and are beset by economic woes that call for progressive, anti-corporate solutions. A Democratic Party that forgets trying to play to the middle and that addresses those issues will be a winner.

All the whining and moaning coming from the progressive camp in America stands in remarkably stark contrast to the massive 24-7 rally in Kiev that resulted in the invalidation of a corrupt election in the Ukraine.

While I suspect that our own national election was stolen, whether by massive centrally directed fraud or by the piled-up misconduct of many zealous Republican election officials, the inability, and unwillingness, of our legal system and our media to root out the real abuses--the ones that actually kept or discouraged people from exercising or registering their vote as opposed to the ones that miscounted their votes--makes it more or less academic. The results are not about to be overturned.

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