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lately bf has become hysterical and catty
I no longer visit their website and much prefer a host of others with much better writing and links

by anechoic (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 50 comments) on Thursday, December 21, 2006 at 7:56:12 PM
 

How about listing some?

Anechoic, some of us may have missed some of the sites you prefer.

If you'd rather post them as a separate article or diary, please put a link to it here.

As Lawrence R. Velvel writes in his article 1989 Redux:

click here

"As it turns out, it was roughly about the time of the Spanish American War that we began the huge decline in voting that led to today's failure of roughly half or more of our citizens to vote in presidential elections. The corrupt politics of the Gilded Age had much to do with leading to this. People realized that they could do little to improve the situation by voting."

If you look at the numbers, most eligible voters don't bother to vote. Add to them the number of people who vote for third parties, or are unaligned with any party, and what you get is a majority of people in this country. I have yet to find another site as tolerant of, and even welcoming to and supportive of the majority as opednews.com

Many sites that call themselves progressive are actually cheerleaders for the Democratic Party, which isn't progressive at all. It can't even be described as reactionary, as when 60% or 70% or even 80% or 90% of its base wants something, the Democratic Party will still march blindly along to the drums of the military-industrial complex and ignore its own base completely, believing that since they aren't likely to go over to the Republicans, and there really isn't any other viable choice in a corrupt two-party system, they have nothing to lose.

So the majority of Americans have been boycotting elections since 1898 as Velvel says, not out of apathy or ignorance, but because we don't like being given only the choice between two evils, the greater and the lesser, and never being allowed the option of voting for a good, and because it is very unlikely that our votes will be counted anyway (See "Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, An American Political Tradition -- 1742-2004," by Tracy Campbell, c. 2005).

Any site that is not concerned with the majority of Americans, cannot be called progressive, and however popular, most certainly cannot be considered populist.

Many of us avoid the mainstream media because it is full of lies and propaganda that, as Chomsky puts it, is designed to manufacture consent. We do not consent.

So if there are other sites as progressive as this one, I'd really like to know about them. Merely linking articles is not sufficient if they do not allow feedback and have full interactivity. We don't like being talked at or down to. We prefer to express our own opinions as we do here.

--Mark

by Mark E. Smith (21 articles, 30 quicklinks, 100 diaries, 1325 comments) on Friday, December 22, 2006 at 4:21:23 AM