Reply #7: The lack of awareness on this subject here on DU cuts me to the core. [View All]

This, plus the opposition to public housing by half of DU, causes me
to realize that the political change (not just this or that candidate
but the political ideal),

which at least half of all DUers and a majority of voting Democrats are fighting for,

marketization, commoditization, managed competition, deprivation of
civil rights (including the implied right to freedom of contract
under Anglo-Saxon law) and replacement with consumer entitlements,

is fundamentally opposed to my beliefs,

and to the beliefs of all civil libertarians.

This includes many of those on the so-called "anti-corporate left",
already marginalized alongside us here on DU, who share nothing in
common with us civil libertarians (some of whom are also anti-corporate
but we share nothing else in common).

They support marketization, commoditization and market libertarianism so long as their favored (Dem friendly) corporations benefit.

They support privatization of public housing, mandatory ID checks, and
turning the citizen into a "consumer" of government mandated privately
owned commodities ranging from "smart roads" to health insurance.
They support the Kelo case.

If this is what most DUers believe (that marketization and mandatory purchases of commoditized goods -- the sort of thing we fought a Revolution to escape), then perhaps I don't belong here on DU or in the Democratic party??