Jerry Politax on Bush watch has posed a question with which I have been struggling since the Democrats have essentially abandoned their role as an opposition party. My response to his question follows:
"Here at Bush Watch we believe that if the Democratic Party can't defend our basic Constitutional freedoms, it has no reason to exist. Not only have Senate Democrats refused to filibuster against this law that tears out the very heart of our democracy, 12 Democrats voted for it: Carper, Johnson, Landrieu, Lautenberg, Lieberman, Menendez, Nelson (FL), Nelson (NE), Pryor, Rockefeller, Salazar, and Stabenow. According to the editors of the Washington Post, 'Congress has allowed itself to be stampeded into a vote on hastily written but far-reaching legal provisions, in a preelection climate in which dissenters risk being labeled as soft on terrorism....Democrats...have been largely and cravenly absent from this month's debate...'"
"Everyone has a breaking point, a point where one says, enough is enough. Have we reached that point? Clearly, it's not enough to attempt to defeat those 12 Democrats that voted to destroy our democracy, for others with the same un-American beliefs will rise in their places, be they Republicans or Democrats. Is it time to send a clear and unambiguous signal to the Democratic Party that, even though it's presently a minority party, we will not continue to allow it to sell off our country, one dictatorial bill after the other, to allow Democrats to remain in office and serve as a false opposition to the ongoing Republican destruction of our democracy? Is it time to stop voting Democratic, hoping for the best, and being disappointed? Is it time to eradicate the Democratic Party and abandon the illusion of choice? is it time to send the only message that politicians understand? Is it time to say no to every single Democratic Party politician in the nation? Is it time for a painful regeneration?
This is what I said:
"I really appreciate your question. I have been struggling with it as well.
I'm not a Democrat, although with very few exceptions I have usually held my nose and voted for the lesser of two evils (ie. the Democrat).
At this point I think the conclusion I have arrived at is that the lesser of two evils is still evil and I will no longer vote for evil in any form."
One would think that having allowed themselves to be stampeded into voting in favor of the invasion of Iraq, the Democrats would have learned a lesson. Clearly they haven't.
What do you think we should do?
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