Reply #77: jukes, they have already merged. Clinton was the first Demican. [View All]

Clinton was run by the DLC, he was their candidate and used their philosophy. He was conservative when it came to what the corporations wanted, but liberal for social policies. That way he kept both the corp. money and the dem votes.

Now the DLC, having already moved us into the pro-corporate column, is attempting to drag us into the socially conservative column. Will someone please ask them how we will then tell one party from the other?

But looking at the bigger picture, there really is just one party now, the corporate party. Both dems and repugs are dependant on the money from corporations to fund their reelection campaigns. You can't expect to solicit a bribe from someone and not be owned by them forever after. I've been shouting about this for years but nobody seems to understand that the only way to restore democracy to america is public funding of elections so as to take the profit motive out of politics and restore gov't to the people.

As for right now, while I've not been a fanatic Dean supporter, I now see him as the only viable politician to represent those of us who have been democrats since before clinton.