Let me ask this question to all of the Progressives that may be reading this; Is this the kind of candidate that will bring change to the Middle Class? I would like to know what kind of change it is that Move-On expects these two candidates to bring to us? Is this the kind of alliance that gives credence to the old maxim that “Politics makes for strange bedfellows?” In my opinion, Move-On has made a fatal error. If this were a computer problem, we would all be looking at “the blue screen of death”. If I was back in the Army and we were in a war-zone, I would be calling for artillery strikes around our position and be trying to raise every helicopter in the area for a “dust-off” to get us the hell out of there.
What exactly is happening here? Have we already determined that we are going to become a corporacracy? Have the American people become so politically naïve that we are going to willingly deliver this nation and all the promise that it once held to multi-national corporations without a fight? Is this what Eisenhower was talking about when he warned us about the “Military Industrial Complex?” In fact, this is the same thing that Senator Mike Gravel told us about in the very first Democratic debate that everyone laughed at. It isn’t as funny now that Move-On, the largest coalition of so-called Progressives asks us to choose which corporate-controlled candidate we would rather have them support!
I am reminded of what Dorothy said to Todo when she woke up after the tornado. “We’re not in Kansas anymore” she said. Well I believe that we are not in, or anywhere near Progressive America either, no matter what Move-On would have you believe.
The only thing that even comes close to any type of hope is that Senator Mike Gravel hasn’t tucked his tail between his legs and wandered off to greener pastures with the rest of the Democrats that have left the race. Maybe with a little luck and a lot of work, we can still change the outcome. It’s doubtful, but still possible. Goodbye Move-On, it’s been real and it’s been nice, but it hasn’t been real nice. Hello again Mike, stick around, we’re going to get reacquainted.
That’s the way I see it.
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