Reply #6: For those who think this fascist junta in the U.S. is the fault of the [View All]

Green Party, I would like to ask you, who, among the Democratic Party leaders in the 2002 to 2004 period, raised their voices over rightwing Bushite corporations gaining control of the "tabulation" of our all of our votes with "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code and virtually no audit/recount controls, in the new $4 billion electronic voting boondoggle designed by Tom Delay and Bob Ney?

Who warned the American people? Who exposed this mindboggling privatization of our elections, by RIGHTWING BUSHITE CORPORATIONS? Where was the Democratic Party leadership when our right to vote was taken away?

I am a lifelong Democratic Party voter--40 years of it--who has never voted Green in my life, though I have been sorely tempted, at times. So I have an especially credentialed right to say this: Our party leaders SOLD AWAY our right to vote in a highly corrupt context of lavish lobbying and porkbarrel spending specifically related to electronics in government, and in the further highly corrupt context of war profiteering. They didn't give a fuck about our sovereignty as a people, our right to elect REPRESENTATIVE leaders, our democracy, and the integrity of our elections, because they all live so well with war. They can take a few tens of thousands of slaughtered Iraqis, and tortured Muslims, and thousands of dead U.S. soldiers, as long as THEY eat well, and as long as the donations keep pouring into their coffers.

I am STILL not in favor of defecting to the Greens, or forming some new "big tent" party, because I think we need to be realistic. I think our country is in extraordinary danger, and the risks of a center/left split are too hauntingly similar to Germany in the 1930s. We need to achieve stability before we can address the conditions that LED TO this fascist coup, and, above all, we MUST restore TRANSPARENT elections, before we can do anything about anything else.

But that doesn't mean I have to be silent about our Democratic leaders' egregious failure to protect our right to vote, or their corruption and collusion with this fascist coup. We need to be realists, yes, but we need to be truthful about our own party leaders and stop blaming the Greens and former Nader voters--who voted overwhelmingly for John Kerry in 2004. The Democratic Party's collusion with global corporate predators is WHY the 2000 election was even close. If the Democratic Party leadership had listened to the Greens, and their own grass roots, on Corporate Rule and ballooning military budgets, we wouldn't be in the damned mess we're in now. To blame the Greens for the corruption of the Democratic Party leadership is the height of hypocrisy and deceit.