How can this be possible? The Republicans have worked for years to support Corporations over citizens. They have eroded our nation’s stability for short term profits.
Republicans have made fairness a bad word.
If you’re a billionaire, you deserve it.
If you’re poor, you deserve it.
What has their ‘re-education’ campaign wrought? People who don’t benefit from Republican policies no longer just sit and nod their heads, they staple teabags to their hats and misspell signs and scream with hatred. The Democrats won't use the Republican tool of message control, fear and anger to direct those emotions where they should be channeled; the powerful Republican billionaire elites.
How can the Democratic party not create and drive home the simple message that the Republican way has brought us down as a nation.
Maybe a simple cause and effect chart could be created that would do the job?
Here Democrats, I’ll start it off for you:
Union busting – the middle class is in danger of being eliminated, wages and benefits decline, manufacturing jobs disappear; the majority of Americans get poorer.
Financial de-regulation – Near collapse of financial system, loss of pensions and savings of middle class; the majority of Americans get poorer
Environmental de-regulation – poorer air and water quality, oil spill, mine collapses; the majority of Americans sit and watch in horror.
Privatizing industry – Google Atlanta, GA’s experience with turning over their water supply, ask a soldier about KBR’s record in Iraq, talk to a victim of PA’s Kids for Cash scandal or in Polk County FL’s juvenile detention facilities. We are all poorer for these tragedies.
Making any mention of raising or imposing taxes toxic, politically – Don’t want to pay taxes, kiss your imposing military goodbye. Freedom isn’t free. Pay your taxes.
Lowering taxes to levels that will not support our nation’s needs – Bridges and levees crumbling, leaky pipes draining away our water, and antiquated sewer systems spewing untreated water into our waterways. We all face dangers and disasters.
The Greed is Good mentality means the honest hard-working people are fleeced by those who can pay for our nations best and brightest to find ways to subvert or circumvent the law. Those who save and contribute to 401Ks and buy homes get poorer.
We are Democrats. We abhor The Man crushing The People. We should be able to compose a message that allows us to gain seats, so the obstructionism isn’t a constant threat, and we don’t have to cowtow to the ‘moderates’.
We need to be able to do the people’s work, on behalf of the people, with intelligence and compassion in equal parts.
Why are Democrats in danger of losing seats in 2010?
Because our leaders sometimes seem ashamed to honor what it means to be a Democrat.