Reply #23: agreed...pretty much [View All]

we know who the bad guys are. the enemy is, and has been, for decades, the corporate oligarchy.

they certainly do influence and control many of our politicians in both parties.

the Republicans are unashamedly and openly in their pockets--(all the more wonder that the teabaggers think the Rs represent their interests!)

so we're left with the Democrats. they still advertise themselves as the "people's" party, or try too, the friend of the working man. And for decades they haven't been able to deliver much. Hence becoming the target of the anger and frustration of you and so many others here at DU, and often myself as well.

While I'm sure there are those Dems who are wholly owned from the get go and there are those who are "bought out" too. There are those who believe that the only way to make any head way is to work with the powers that be and try to negotiate some favorable gains however meagre. (ie. Clinton, Emmanuel and Obama, even LBJ). There are still many others who succumb to pressure of a myriad of kinds (including real violence and threats), and there are those who just can't get any traction no matter how tall they stand up.

The bottom line is: all this only proves is how entrenched and powerful the "enemy" is. It is not proof that Democratic leaders "serve the Corporations," regardless of whatever manner by which they have been rendered ineffective and or powerless.

If we want strong leaders, we have to create them and we have to back them up.