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The Great Democratic Landslide Of 2008
By Brent Budowsky (about the author) Page 1 of 3 page(s)
For OpEdNews: Brent Budowsky - Writer
Democrats 2008 Sweep
George Bush will go down in history as the new Herbert Hoover for the Republican Party, creating momentous changes in American politics that will lead to a realignment as powerful as the FDR coalition.
Democrats have an extraordinary opportunity in 2007 and 2008 to lead the Nation to a post- Bush America and inaugurate a new era of historic patriotic reform in the tradition of FDR and JFK.
Our great aspiration is that January 2009 will bring a new Democratic President leading an uplifted America, with up to 60 Democratic Senators, additional gains in the House, and a wave of more Democratic governors ahead of the next census and reapportionment.
I served with senior Democratic Senators such as Lloyd Bentsen and with the House Democratic Leadership when Democrats were in control of Congress and have no doubt about this:
Democrats have only begun to realize the full magnitude of rejection of Bush and Bushism, the full magnitude of our power in Congress to set the agenda through legislation and investigations, and the full magnitude of opportunity in 2008 for a historic realignment. Republicans are politically incarcerated by a politics of Bushism that is dominated by an extreme right wing base, a royalist economics that makes them servants of the 1% at the expense of the 99%, and a psychology of national division, fear politics and war fever.
The traditional base of the Democratic Party is converging with the mainstream base of Middle America.
Fighting Democrats and war hero candidates appeal to tens of millions of Americans in military families who know well the bad faith and incompetence of Bush war fever and war partisanship.
The demographic wave of Hispanics is cresting with the Democratic wave of community that treats all Americans as members of the great American family.
As Baby Boomers gravitate to older age groups that tend to favor Democrats, young people are gravitating to Democrats who will not rush to send our young to war, who will stand for social justice and economic opportunity for everyone, and who want to protect our planet from the greed and pollution that threatens the world our young people will inherit.
The poor, the underprivileged, the victims of Bushism are regaining a spirit of empowerment as they saw that their vote really mattered last November, and a Democratic Congress fights for them. The age of tax cuts for the wealthiest is over; the fight for minimum wage has begun, and will be won.
Men and women of faith are attracted by Democratic candidates who believe with President Kennedy that God's work on earth must truly be our own, and act on this belief.
There is a growing movement among mainstream and progressive religious denominations who are roused to action against the politics of selfishness, greed and corruption that are hallmarks of the Bush era.
Even the most conservative Christian groups in Karl Rove's base strategy face their own generation gap, as young people in their core religious constituencies take greater interest in working against global warming, genocide in Darfur, hunger and homelessness in America.
As Bushism has incarcerated Republicanism into ever decreasing concentric circles of support, as growing majorities of Americans feel excluded and offended, the Democratic surge has begun to gather steam and is spreading.
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