{"article":{"id":120144,"heading":"Progressives! Let's Stop Whining and Start Fighting Back","author":"Dave Lindorff","created":"2004-12-09 19:09:56","modified":"2013-11-11 00:31:47","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:31:47","article":"<p>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.\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<\/p><p>\tWhile 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.\r\n<br>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\n","contact":"dlindorff@yahoo.com","link":"http:\/\/www.thiscantbehappening.net","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"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.\r\n\r\n\r\n","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/12\/120144.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}