Reply #30: Democrats are the new republicans... except more cowardly and dangerous [View All]

The right wing has been doing a brilliant job of control the public debate - they blaze trails with their extremism, they soften up America with their anger and hate and the rest of America begins to accept it as normal. Especially children - this strategy is most effective with kids.

The right-wing model of corporate citizen control with the public as employees fits well with neo-lib or neo-dem party which is very similar to early neo-cons. So how does this fit the dem leadership? They are hoping to get a slice of the corporate money pie.

Because new democrats have no moral center behind their "free" market ethics, they have become far more dangerous, driving their Prius right past torture, wiretapping, Wall Street salaries, shitty health care, immigration, bailouts, and on and on. Neo-dems believe all things can be solved by the free market. I'll trade a Prius for justice and truth.

Republicans on the other hand make their intentions crystal clear. There is no mixed message and they invest heavily in communicating their vision.

So - where is the president defending democratic values? He's no different than Reid and Pelosi, together the three are making America safe for a single party republican state.

They should be breathing fire, ready to march like Sherman through the slave states.

Instead our leadership offers appeasement. Fox News and right-wing radio set the agenda, meaning democrats can sit back and and coast in the slip stream. They simply stay a fraction to the left of the far right and call themselves "centrists" and "moderates".

In this way, Democrats are indeed more far dangerous than republicans.