Get it through your thick skulls, people, we're all poor these days when policy is being decided by billionaires.

They're waging war against everybody who isn't a billionaire and that means you and me.

When Krugman writes a column about the Republicans and much of the government waging a war against working people, wake me up.

That's what's going on here and the billionaires are winning.

that the "old poor" and the "new poor&quot most of the rest of us)are fighting the same battle. That there's no longer anything to be gained for anybody who isn't rich(and let's face it, if you aren't rich now, try as you might you almost certainly never will be)in seeing themselves as "above" the poor and entitled to lecture them and treat them as an enemy to be beaten back with a stick.

considered poor.

-Laelth

Moderates, otoh, are ripe for the picking. We have recently seen that there are, even on DU, way too many moderates who would sell their own people to the piglicans just so they can remain snug.

I call for an all out attack on the moderates who would vote for a Reagan or Bush again!

... in our area.

You should see the comments.... like a Social Darwinist had a love... I mean hate... child with Ayn Rand. And then that child learned at the feet of Mitt Romney and Rand Paul.

which part of "our party". Every day almost you read about a Republican that is switching parties. These switchers bring with them their low-life conservative ideologies. This part of "our party" wont support the poor. With the decline of the Republican Party, there has been a migration of Republicans, along with their ideologies, polluting the Democratic Party.

So for sure the Conserva-Dems wont be interested in helping the poor.

Now we need to look at the DEmocratic Party machine along with the Corp-Democratic Congress-peoples. These are bought and paid for by Wall Street and Big Corps. They wont help the poor.

So to answer your question, there is a good portion of the Democratic Party that will not support the poor.

...than in the previous 10.


The Democratic spokesman on Meet-the-Press (Deval Patrick) called the uninsured "Free Riders" this morning.
Mitt Romney called the uninsured "Free Loaders".

SEE!
The Two Parties are NOT the same.

oversight of corporate activity.

Some will. Others are bought and paid for.

Until people unite and represent them selfs,there will be all colors of representatives who sympathize with your cause or conviction at best.you enable them to rob you blind while they care about nothing more,than the highway robbery they are so proficient at

it just that very little can get passed now under this extremist GOP in Congress. For instance, the Jobs Bill from 2011 was blocked by Boehner and his gang. We have people in the party like Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Lee, and Grayson who have all been fighting in the interests of the working class. Obama and Biden have stayed on their game. Even the Blue Dogs have voted with us about 70% of the time, at worst. If we want to see some upward mobility, it's important that we get the red out and go back to how things were prior to 2010, when we had many more bills getting passed.

I was talking about the bulk of the message our party's leaders choose to send.

We need to be able to get through to them, like the poor and the New Left intellectuals(at least to a degree)got through to Bobby Kennedy.

The Republicans are obstructing economic stimuli that will enhance Obama's recovery.

Even a recovering economic royalist like JFK got that before he was killed.

Look at how little good Reagan's "recovery" did for the poor and the working class back in the Eighties.

Statistical economic growth isn't everything.

And the days when Democrats gain by distancing ourselves from the poor are over. Most working-class and middle-class people AREN'T poorbashers anymore. They get it now that the rich aren't on their side.

...was the day John Edwards withdrew from Campaign 2008.

John Edwards, warts and all, did more to spotlight the plight of the poor in America with his Two Americas Campaign than anyone else in the Party leadership for a long time.
For that, I thank him.

refused to do so, and settled for crumbs instead. Nobody progressives backed in the 2008 presidential primaries other than Dennis and possibly Edwards was worthy of their support.

Now that I am a gerrymandered voter due to their lack of fight and conviction, I am dedicated to protest and movement as the only chance the people will be represented in legislation going forward. We are in a dark period of American history and the decisions we take now will have historic implications. If we never stood up and said stop the corporatization of America, then the final script has been written.

It's an issue few have the guts to take on.


The poor don't have money for $5,000 a plate dinners, and they don't have email addresses to spam asking for donations.