The Heart of the Problem

[Minimalist]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/12...tail=email

Sean Patrick Maloney is clearly an adept of the Clinton Wing of the Democratic Party. The Wing that is in charge. The Wing that Barack Obama ceded the Economy to. The Neoliberal Wing that will fight like tigers for gay marriage and other social causes deemed harmless by the Masters of Money, then sell out all of the American People by propping up the failed Status Quo of Casino Capitalism.

Economic Justice is the ONLY issue. Every other issue flows from this. Democrats need to decide what it means to be a Democrat.

I'm a business person and I used to be considered a moderate. Now, perversely, I'm some sort of radical leftie communist in the eyes of the failed Washington Consensus and the racist "End-Times" Wacko Christians..

Who are the actual radicals?

The GOP is now radicalized and might as well change their name to the FPA (Fascist Party of America).

The Democrats are now Eisenhower Republicans. No. Wait a minute. I was born when Ike was President. The top tax rate was 90% and corporations paid in 32% of Federal tax revenue. Now it's what? 38% and 9%?--after years of deliberate capture of the apparatus of government by the corporate plutocracy? Can't anyone do MATH?

Many Democrats in power might as well be Reagan Republicans.

Progressives have no choice. You have to vote for the lesser of two evils because the greater of two evils is simply TOO evil.

[Davka]

Progressives have no choice. You have to vote for the lesser of two evils because the greater of two evils is simply TOO evil.

This is why my kids, Millennials who have just reached the voting age, are refusing to vote at all. They don't see that it makes any real difference - both parties are selling us out to the highest bidder.

Me, I'd rather have the Democrat hypocritical assholes in charge that the truly lunatic GOP. But the yoots of America don't see it that way.

[Minimalist]

Well then they are going to get it shoved up their assholes good and hard.

[thesummerqueen]

This is why my kids, Millennials who have just reached the voting age, are refusing to vote at all. They don't see that it makes any real difference - both parties are selling us out to the highest bidder.

Me, I'd rather have the Democrat hypocritical assholes in charge that the truly lunatic GOP. But the yoots of America don't see it that way.

Speaking as a millennial anecdotally, my fellow millennials turn out locally trying desperately to get our vote out. We simply don't have the momentum the boomers have, either in financial lube, or time off to actually vote, in some cases.

[The Grand Nudger]

Perhaps what older generations see as non-participation is more accurately a shift in perspective and priority? Local, local, local. The general idea being that local change will bring about national change - as an unavoidable consequence. A lateral or bottom up approach, rather than hoping for a top down ultimatum delivered by a single candidate or a handful of dodgy corporate sellouts....either side of the aisle. More than any previous generation, millenials know whats on each others minds...even if they don't fucking want to. We're connected. We live in here just as much as "out there".

Hows that top down stuff been treatin yall older folks anyway, eh? Did it go the way you thought it would, the way you planned?

[The Grand Nudger]

or time off to actually vote, in some cases.

-indeed, busy picking the cotton to pay for grannies government-issued meds as she rails and votes against government "moochers"