That’s why I suggested in Christy’s thread on the economy that the Dems come together and form a unified, informed party policy that will really address issues with solutions:

I recommended the Dems come up with a party platform to run on that was problem-solving centered. For example, meet with Gore and come up with an environmental/sustainable/energy policy-plan and that no matter who ends up the candidate, “that group formed policy” would go on to serve the country.

I suggested they meet with the Concord Coalition to form an economic policy and to start working on it as a group before the election because of how bad things are going to be soon.

Crazy. Maybe. Novel? Workable? Yes! It would rally my vote ASAP to actually see the Dem candidates roll up their sleeves and start serving our country as leaders NOW instead of talking about it on the campaign trail.The actions of preservation would echo across the country.

I know, a pipe dream…Unfortunately, it’s going to take a pipe dream to fix and preserve our nation.

For a dyed in the wool liberal like myself, cruising through a blog site like Firedog Lake is fun, and to some extent reassuring. It reinforces for me two things.

One is that there are others out there who think like me, sort of.

The other is I realize, despite all the buzz about the power of the blogosphere, just how powerless we peons really are in the face of a bipartisan political class in this country that, despite all the superficial differences the class’s members claim exist between them, shares a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

Hillary doesn’t want change. She’s a phony thru and thru.

If Hillary were a working or middle class woman who put up with the abuse and humiliation big Bubba heaped on her, the mental health and social work professions, especially many women in those professions, would be labeling Hillary as “codependent”, “lacking in self esteem”, or some other PC psycho babble diagnosis that is so popular these days.

But instead, Hillary, just because she’s a woman, as codependent and lacking in self esteem as she is, – arrogance and entitlement, by the way do not add up to self esteem and self respect-, is being held up by many as a role model for younger women to look up to.

I don’t think so folks!

This country, as Keith Olbermann so aptly pointed out in his interview with Bill Moyers, is in a state of emergency.

All the pithy, clever comments slamming Bush aren’t going to do the proverbial pee hole in the snow’s worth of any good to turn this country around.

The entire political class of this country is corrupt.

Until people, of all political persuasions, begin to accept that reality, nothing is going to change.

When I decided to come back this year, I really thought there was going to be an opportunity to help bring about real change.

but the more I watch, the more I realize the rainforest might just be where I really belong.

At least there, you know who the real snakes are – be they reptilian or human.

Among America’s bipartisan political class today, it’s all but impossible to tell who the snakes are..

I intend to vote for whichever Democrat is nominated. That statement includes Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama. I can’t speak for other people on Firedoglake, but I’m not willing to see any of the Republicans elected, if I can help it, by witholding or wasting my vote. I have great respect Glenn’s remarkable intelligence and writing. However, if either he or you can’t understand my position, I’m sorry.

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