Black male-bashing syndrome – e-Mailbox

I don’t know how many times I’ve had discussions with other Democrats and we’ll look at each other and say why are they (the leadership) doing that?!? Now it’s beginning to make sense. Let’s hope you gain readership because everyone who depends on the Democratic Party needs to understand the basic thesis that you’ve outlined.

Sold! Anthony Kennerson, of Lafayette, Louisiana, can hear the auctioneer at work.

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Excellent article, Mr. Dixon, and the rest of you at . This brings to mind something that has been yanking my chain for time immortal: why in the holy hell are so many progressives still – even after getting duped again and again and again – breaking out that old canard that any Democrat would be better than Bush???

Yes indeed, it goes without saying that the GOP Bu shites are open fascists, raw racists, and brutal “Pi-Rats ” (using the word “Pirates” to describe this band of louts is an insult to legitimate, honest, pirates) who need to get their butts driven far, far away from any seat of power. But… we should remember the basic fact that the Pi-Rats would not have gotten away with even half their gains without the stellar assistance of those quislings over at the Democratic Leadership Council, including the Great Triangulator Bill Clinton and his dear wife Hillary, who is even now as we speak proving with her ridiculous biography and her latest rightward political shift (she’s even to the right of Bush on Middle East policy) how spineless the “liberals” can be when they really get their mind to it.

Of course, I’m not at all surprised that the DLC is trying to get its hooks into Brother Obama. Since they feel that they already own the other two Democratic candidates, why not try for the sweep and block out any meaningful progressive candidate? They can do this because they have control of the main strategic asset in today’s whack electoral system: the $$$$$. With labor flat on its back and about to be buried deeper and deeper, and the traditional civil rights and social rights movements more concerned with celebrity worship and lining up to the Greedygut Faith-Based Welfare Clearinghouse than actually defending their constituents against this ‘offensive’ offensive, I guess that Al From’s guys feel that there’s now nothing standing between them and complete control of the Dems.

In my opinion – and as stated in Mr. Dixon’s excellent article – the only cure for this is for the regular Black, Brown and Red folk – and please, please, my brother and sister White progressives and Leftists, feel free to join in on this whenever you get your heads out of the sand – to rise up collectively and either take back the Democrats and reform it into a real party of opposition and ideology, or just abandon it to the stinking, rotten grave that it will deserve if the DLC continues its stranglehold, and form a true second party of their own. Given the track record of the Dems so far in my lifetime, I’m more for the second option… but then again, I’ve been an Independent since 1986, so I have the advantage of being able to see the Jackass Party from the outside.