A Five Step Program for Democrats: How to Win in 2012

A Five Step Program for Democrats: How to Win in 2012
by John Atcheson

Want to know why Democrats took such a “shellacking” in the midterms?Because Republicans ran unopposed. And if Obama and the Democrats want to regain power, they better make some radical adjustments in their worldview. Here’s a 5 step plan for doing just that.

Step 1: Accept the fact that there’s a war on for the soul of America. On the one hand corporations and their Republican lackeys are seeking to discredit government for the sole purpose of eviscerating it, so that they can consolidate the transition of the US from a democracy to a plutocracy.

They have skillfully created the myths that “the market,” if left alone, will be the source of all good things by pure serendipity, and that big gubmint’ is a flailing bureaucracy that is skilled in only one area – wasting your money.

We’ve experimented with this ‘Market uber-alles” philosophy three times now – in the late 1800’s; in the 1920’s and again in the 1990’s and the first decade of the 21st Century, and each time it has resulted in an unmitigated disaster. Anyone who still believes that unconstrained free markets are the key to prosperity is engaging in magical thinking...

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/11/14