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Election 2010: Progressives in a Pickle

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No matter what you think of them, the Big Oil and Big Corporation funded Tea Party has managed to make the Republican Party take a sharp turn to the right. But that's not the half of it.

This sham movement of nearly all white reactionaries has also managed to swerve the Democratic Party to the right and leave it in the mucky putrid swamp of the middle where they will be easily gunned down. As Sarah says, "Reload." That they will.

Will the Democrats ever learn? No. The right scares Big D politicians to death. It's a combination of absurd conventional wisdom that America has been, is still and forever will be a Christian nation along with the possibility of losing political funding should they turn their backs on Big Business.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Tea Party claims the mantle of the anti-establishment, anti-federal authority and pro-liberty trifecta sucking the disgruntled, non-unionized, unemployed and still struggling, under the perceived torturous 18 months of Obama, into believing Big Conservatism has their best interest at heart.

Does this stink or what? And, it gets worse.


Have a Pickle? by Bob Farrell

Progressives have a Sophie's choice come November.

Drag yourself to the polls to vote for a milquetoastDemocrat, or stay at home and watch the congress go bye-bye to the now extreme right party of no.

Vote for the Democrats and validate their ineffective leadership and half measures that have put the party in the dumper.

Or...

Don't vote and watch as an overwhelming wealth and income disparity precipitates a downpour of families falling into peonage. Remember the eight years of damage done by W? Just wait.

Obviously, please, put this all in perspective and get out and vote.

But don't fail to also keep speaking truth to authority. Tell those you are voting for what you are voting for, and don't stop there.

We need to take actions against the Corporatocracy that has us in this pickle. Punish, punish, punish in the market place. Money is power. You may not have much money, but you've got some and how you spend it is a vote every day.

Here's your daily choice:

Keep spending your money at the businesses owned by Big Corporations,

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Chaz Valenza is writer and small business owner in New Jersey. He earned his MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business. His current feature film project is "Single Point Failure" an insider's account of how the Reagan Administration (more...)
 
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Progressives need to organize by Chaz Valenza on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:58:35 AM
THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO GO by MARGARET BASET on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:03:00 AM
Democrats don't really want to win by Josh Mitteldorf on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:15:16 AM
I want to strongly disagree. by Daniel Geery on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:16:41 AM
good points by Chaz Valenza on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:52:30 PM
Dems not trying to win by liberalsrock on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:22:39 AM
The Democratic Party Thinks Mainstream Americans: by Charlene Richards on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:48:31 PM
Democrats Abrogated Moral Authority by Ed Encho on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:26:25 AM
I don't disagree by Chaz Valenza on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:59:50 PM
Wow. Meanwhile by Guitar Chris on Saturday, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:58:42 AM
Sarah Palin With a Stick Up Her Ass by Ed Encho on Saturday, Sep 4, 2010 at 4:45:09 PM
Progressives Don't Want To Win by ssg13565 on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:59:18 AM
well said by Maxwell on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:45:27 PM
Consider What the Democrats Have Supported: by Charlene Richards on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:08:28 PM
Hmmm, I don't see it by Charlie L on Friday, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:01:11 AM
Vote carefully by Bill Samuel on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:46:46 AM
No, no and yes by Jeffrey Rock on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:24:41 PM
Among other things, be judicious in political contributions by Paul Karsh on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:28:02 PM
Another option.... by John Jonik on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:42:37 PM
Ballot by Richard Pietrasz on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:30:12 PM
Not for those buggers... by Roger on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:18:52 PM
Are you willing to vote with your dollars? by Chaz Valenza on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:31:45 PM
It's not just the progressives who are in a pickle by Jack Flanders on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:07:08 PM
Yup by phidipidese on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:13:21 PM
Yup by phidipidese on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:14:01 PM
Ballot Access by steve scheetz on Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:35:00 PM
Write Ins by John Jonik on Friday, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:14:44 AM
write in? by hourglass on Saturday, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:19:39 PM
Voting = Democracy ?? by John Jonik on Saturday, Sep 4, 2010 at 7:19:27 PM
Vote Green instead by David Schwab on Friday, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:33:08 AM
Are there shades of gray? by ssg13565 on Thursday, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:11:53 PM
Lesser evils... by John Jonik on Thursday, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:10:31 PM