Thursday, August 20, 2009
Gold, the true key to change.
I am more than a little disgusted that the donations I made to the Obama campaign last year were also donations to the Democratic National Committee. I realize of course that it was necessary to dislodge as many Republicans as possible in order to grant clear control to a party that was professing a progressive agenda, but it stands to reason that the campaign promises of the DNC’s candidate would reflect the platform of the DNC. Unfortunately, it seems that indeed it does—except that as opposed to Obama being the leader he was advertised to be, he seems content to take all his marching orders from the DNC no matter how inane and conflicted these orders may be.
So Obama won the presidency and the democrats gained the control they said they needed to bring about real change in Washington. Unfortunately, this control has been handled by the DNC in such a way as to fully validate the reputation Democrats have for being the biggest wastrels in Washington. They have the control, yet they insist on courting this myth of bipartisanship, riding it like a burning Kamikaze plane into the decks of an already burning ship of state. And as usual, Washington again falls into their adversarial role against the American citizenry. The lobbyists and special interests are still the strongest voices in Washington.
I still get e-mails from Organizing For America; people like Mitch Stewart, and occasionally I get requests for feedback on the President’s proposals. Inevitably, these communiques’ are sprinkled liberally with little blue ‘donate’ links. These links when followed all take your donation to the same place: not the OFA, but instead to the DNC. The feedback requests once completed bring you to a donation page, and sometimes the feedback requests are closed to further input by the time one gets to them. Obama & Co. made great strides regarding the positive political uses of the internet, but as with the rest of his presidency, progressive agenda is gradually devolving into status quo. Its not about progress, its all about maintenance of the marginally functional DNC (they are rated marginal only because the RNC rates a full dysfunctional classification).
It kinda figures that Washington still would only listen to people willing to pay.
So Obama won the presidency and the democrats gained the control they said they needed to bring about real change in Washington. Unfortunately, this control has been handled by the DNC in such a way as to fully validate the reputation Democrats have for being the biggest wastrels in Washington. They have the control, yet they insist on courting this myth of bipartisanship, riding it like a burning Kamikaze plane into the decks of an already burning ship of state. And as usual, Washington again falls into their adversarial role against the American citizenry. The lobbyists and special interests are still the strongest voices in Washington.
I still get e-mails from Organizing For America; people like Mitch Stewart, and occasionally I get requests for feedback on the President’s proposals. Inevitably, these communiques’ are sprinkled liberally with little blue ‘donate’ links. These links when followed all take your donation to the same place: not the OFA, but instead to the DNC. The feedback requests once completed bring you to a donation page, and sometimes the feedback requests are closed to further input by the time one gets to them. Obama & Co. made great strides regarding the positive political uses of the internet, but as with the rest of his presidency, progressive agenda is gradually devolving into status quo. Its not about progress, its all about maintenance of the marginally functional DNC (they are rated marginal only because the RNC rates a full dysfunctional classification).
It kinda figures that Washington still would only listen to people willing to pay.
