Randi Rhodes said that we should all show up at Democratic meetings. It's very simple. (As I always say, angry conservatives take over the GOP; angry progressives flee the Democratic Party.)
Mike Malloy said The Democratic Party IS DEAD. It's almost as corrupt as the GOP.
Dennis Kucinich said that it feels like he's almost doing missionary work with the Democrats. Don't look for change to come from Washington. It'll have to come from the People. He sees a lot of reawakening among the unions. Over the last 30 years many union members voted Republican, figuring that they were part of the Establishment. (Reagan Democrats) But with what happened in Wisconsin and with the Tea Party, union members are starting to realize that the GOP wants to destroy the unions. (Boy, it took them a long time to figure that out!) Ft. Lauderdale policemen changed from GOP to Dems. Probation officers in CA did too. Randi Rhodes said she's often called on now to give speeches to unions that wouldn't have called on her years ago. Why they want a post-menopausal women is beyond her.
Ron Reagan joked: it's surprising how many men do want to be post-menopausal women. (Great laughter)
Alabama recently passed a law that criminalized driving an illegal immigrant to the hospital! The effect of such laws is that many farmers' crops are rotting in the field in Alabama.
When GOP policies affect peoples' pocketbooks, they'll start revising their political views.
But the question is: are the Dems really much better?
The talk show hosts are funny, and they made us laugh a lot. One good scene was when Randi Rhodes got down on her knee and begged Dennis Kucinich to run for Congress in Florida. Ron Reagan begged too for something, and so did Mike Malloy.
Randi Rhodes said the critical change we need is public financing of elections. It takes $1 billion to become president and $1 million to run for Congress.
Stephanie Miller said that 70% of Americans agree with us on issues like ending wars, single payer, and fair taxation. But the politicians don't listen to us.
Norman Goldman said there's a big disconnect between the corporate leadership of the Democratic Party and the grassroots. We need lots of $5 donations and we need Internet activism, like Howard Dean and Obama got in 2004 and 2008.
Democrats need to talk about issues, not labels. We can win on the issues.
Democrats have lost our anger. [Yes, I agree: I saw this with Tim Eyman and other anti-tax nutcases who stood up tall and ]elled their poisonous distortions at the King Country Metro hearings in Kirkland a few weeks ago.]
Mike Malloy agreed with Goldman: you can't be a great lawyer unless you find your anger. People/voters respect anger.
[So, what wins? Love or hatred? Unfortunately, I think hatred and fear and anger usually wins in politics.]
A questioner asked whether Hillary Clinton would have been tougher with the Republicans than Obama? Should we have chosen Hillary?
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