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Thank you, Jake for the
convention report (and I'm sorry about your
car). I
think it's pretty obvious that the Massachusetts Democratic
Party
has decided that they simply will not allow any more dissent
among
the rank-and-file, and they are willing to lie and cheat and
act
without ethics, integrity, or scruples to get that done. This is
just
one more leg on their long march toward becoming Republican
look-alikes.
There
is obviously a move afoot to make the Platform and Charter as
flaccid
and impotent as possible (I use the masculinist language
advisedly).
There is some great courage lacking among mainstream
Democrats,
I fear. Or worse, some willingness to acquiesce to the
oppressive
powers in Washington --- some variation on the Stockholm
Syndrome
under which certain Democrats are laboring that makes them
want to
appear more like the Republicans than not.
Whatever
the cause of the dis/ease, the symptoms include a particular
form of
osteoporosis (the loss of backbone), a draining out of
lifeblood
(progressives looking for another party), and some strange
psychological
anomaly that includes a pathological need to cause
oneself
harm.
So, it
sounds like the Convention was just one more move on the part
of the
DSC and MDP "leadership" to disempower the People (and all
this
while Howard Dean looked on). Meanwhile, George Bush advances
his
tryanny every day without any effective opposition from the
Democratic
Party. After all, if we're not willing to support and
defend
the planks of the Democratic Party Platform, how can we be
expected
to take a bullet for the Constitution? Or even endure a
hangnail
for it? The Democratic Party -- to paraphrase Edward R.
Murrow
-- is nothing more than a sword rusting in its scabbard during
a
battle for survival.
I must
admit, I haven't had a taste this bad in my mouth since Phil
Johnston's
coronation in December.
What
now, comrades?
Mary-Ann
Greanier
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