The reason why Washington is still moving to the right is because there is still a movement working hard to make it happen. There are still plenty of well funded think tanks, a news network and lots of talk radio people who make sure they keep the pressure on. We also have the lobbyists who keep lobbying for the people who have the money.

We also have nothing tugging from the far left, no socialist movement, no commie country, no strong labor movement, nothing. When FDR enacted his New Deal he was moving to the left, but he was taking the moderate stance at the time. Look what was on his pulling on him from his left flank, commie countries with sympathizers here at home, socialist groups, the labor movement. FDR didn't have a Heritage Foundation, along with a Fox News and a Rush Limbaugh to deal with.

If you want to call someone a thieving pig fucker, you'd better be prepared to produce the pig." -- HST

Posted at September 11, 2007 11:26 PM in response to Responding to Criticism

I don't think you understand fusion voting. It doesn't mean you vote for a fusion party. It means a candidate gets endorsed by more than one party and the votes for that candidate fall under the other party not establishment party.

If you want to call someone a thieving pig fucker, you'd better be prepared to produce the pig." -- HST

Posted at July 5, 2007 2:49 PM in response to Political Reform with People In It

Who could ask for anything better? I'd like to see a few of the bigger progressive groups hold SICKO watching parties once the DVD hits the streets. What better topic to organize around then health care? Health care has an impact on everyone.

If you want to call someone a thieving pig fucker, you'd better be prepared to produce the pig." -- HST

Posted at July 5, 2007 2:43 PM in response to SiCKO Leads to Spontaneous Organizing

I have liked the fusion voting idea ever since my friend turned me on to it a few years ago. We need a way for different parties to be heard and have an impact, and fusion voting does that.

Is there a group I can support, or do some work for that is pushing for this?

If you want to call someone a thieving pig fucker, you'd better be prepared to produce the pig." -- HST

Posted at July 5, 2007 2:39 PM in response to Fusion: What’s in it for Democrats?

You assume people would vote for Gore again, and you do this knowing that McCain is the likely nominee for the Republicans. I say that the Democratic party needs a new face, not one that is boring and has been run through the grinder like Gore has.

If you want to call someone a thieving pig fucker, you'd better be prepared to produce the pig." -- HST

Posted at May 21, 2006 5:55 PM in response to Count the votes, dude

Sirota just wants to see some balance in our representation. Right now we have two parties that take too much money from corporate interests and when they take this money from those interests they look out for those interests. You argue that these folk would do it anyway because that's what they believe. If that's the case then they are just like the person they are running against and we still don't have any balance in our representation.

Kilgore and his crew at the DLC are sponsored by corporate money, they may already believe that corporations should come first in politics, but this still doesn't make them right on the issue.

What I want is one group of people in Washington that believe in progressive economic politics balancing out the folks who believe the other way, and Sirota offers us a plan of action to work on this, and this is far from a waste.

If you want to call someone a thieving pig fucker, you'd better be prepared to produce the pig." -- HST

Posted at May 5, 2006 8:12 PM in response to How We Take It Back

Yes, the white, black, red, green and blue working class already know they are getting the short end of the stick and see no political party that is actually defending them from the coporate interests . Sirota's book is just a reminder that we need to really start holding our elected officials feet to the fire on this issue. Our leaders just passed a pretty crappy reform bill and a group of Democrats jumped across the aisle to support it, what does that say to the working class folks that already know they are being screwed? It says that the Democratic party isn't looking out for them, and if they feel that the Republicans better understand them when it comes to a social issue or two why not support them, why support the Democrats when they will sell me out on the social issue front and the economic front?

Why do you folks in the polling business not understand this? The Democratic party needs to actually stand up for working class folks, remember it was Bill Clinton and his crew that really sold out the working class. The working class already knew the Republicans would sell them out, and once the Democrats did, there really was no one left.

If you want to call someone a thieving pig fucker, you'd better be prepared to produce the pig." -- HST

Posted at May 4, 2006 5:00 PM in response to The White Working Class Test

It is simple, we want one party looking out for the interests of business and another party looking out for the interests of regular folks, right now we have two parties looking out for business first. Is it too much to ask for some balance in Washington DC? Sirota may be too harsh but he is right.

If you want to call someone a thieving pig fucker, you'd better be prepared to produce the pig." -- HST

Posted at May 1, 2006 11:58 PM in response to Hostile Takeover: The World Pulled Over Our Eyes to Blind Us From the Truth

This isn't about cellphones and Walmart, this is about saftey nets and politicians selling out to K Street. We could have cushioned the blow from NAFTA if we had better saftey nets for workers, you know, things like universal healthcare and college educations that are affordable, and some decent unemployment insurance for displaced workers, but instead we get insurance company lobbyists taking our leaders out on golf junkets and buying them lunch and we get people scared that universal healthcare will ruin our country's health when anyone who takes a look around the globe at other industrialized countries can see that universal healthcare works.

I don't mind business looking out for themselves but I do mind that politicians seem to be looking out for business all the time and at the expense of regular folks in this country. Sirota has made some good points now he needs to work on his delivery.

If you want to call someone a thieving pig fucker, you'd better be prepared to produce the pig." -- HST

Posted at May 1, 2006 11:54 PM in response to Hostile Takeover: The World Pulled Over Our Eyes to Blind Us From the Truth

Here we go again, more people telling me I have no choice but the lesser of two evils. If the Democratic party actually stood up and said no more to lobbyists and all their perks we wouldn't have this problem, but they don't, so why should we vote for them? Because they aren't as bad as the Republicans? I want the Democrats to do one simple thing, stop taking the perks, and actually write laws themselves and not take pre-packaged crap that lobbyists put on their desks. There is so much wrong with the marriage between K Street and our political leaders and it would be nice to see the Dems divorce themselves from this horrible relationship, and actually stand up for the regular folks in this country.

If you want to call someone a thieving pig fucker, you'd better be prepared to produce the pig." -- HST

Posted at May 1, 2006 11:45 PM in response to Hostile Takeover: The World Pulled Over Our Eyes to Blind Us From the Truth