Reply #8: The Dean bloc can work within the party. [View All]

(Welcome to DU, fellow Dean person! :toast:)

I believe Dean supporters can work as a bloc within the party to force it "left"--i.e., toward the grassroots and away from the donors. It's the party's only hope. It may be possible to form a coalition with these other grassroots-based campaigns, but with them or without them, the Dean movement should flex its muscle and demonstrate what losing us this year would mean.

I'd like to see John Kerry apologize to us for voting for IWR, for belittling our anger about Election 2000, for attacking Dean for speaking the truth about the war in Iraq, etc., etc., etc. And I'd like him to sweat over the likelihood that a lot of us won't just go along quietly if becomes the nominee. He, or whoever else, has to demonstrate a clear understanding of what this movement means. He's very, very, very far from there, as far as I can tell.