Reply #43: The thing about 'passion' is that it leads to action... [View All]

...and that leads one away from today's Democratic party.

I think the DLC / Progressive split has more to do with race and economics than the Vietnam or Iraq 'wars'. I'm not sure there's even more than a couple Vets, if any, in the DLC leadership structure.

The DLCers use WAR for the same reason the Neocons use it: to increase the profit margins of corporations that finance their campaigns. In another time and place they would have called it war profiteering. The DLC doesn't support the Iraq invasion and occupation because they really think Bush has liberated the Iraqis or will bring peace and freedom there. They support it because it's one of the biggest government cash cows in history. This war means literally billions of dollars flowing every EXCEPT to the Iraqis. Every large corporation and Friend of Bush has a contract or subcontract in Iraq. They know congress will keep the cash flowing because they have a majority of Americans fooled into believing that we can't leave Iraq. It's the oldest scam in the book of politics.

This is what happens when a government forsakes democracy for a one-party corporate state. The corporate state doesn't work for the people. It works for itself and the people come second...if at all.

The corporate state always uses dissent and protestors as scapegoats and to coverup their own actions. And since a corporate state always owns at least part of the media...they're able to portray a protest as 'violent' by magnifying the actions of a few individuals. That is...a few individuals burn a flag and the thousands at the rally are called flag burners.

I'm not sure how much you know about it...but the government has a history of infiltrating groups with operatives that are paid to make the whole 'movement' look extreme or radical. The operative(s) might be the ones breaking windows or burning flags. In the 60s, 70s and 80s...it was a 'unofficial' program in the FBI called COINTELPRO. Do some research on it and you'll find that through FOIA...documents were found proving this program not only existed...but that their intent was to discredit any and all anti-war or anti-government protests.

You really shouldn't blame protestors and dissent for the GOP and DLC turning to greed and abandoning the needs of the people. This is how they turn the people against each other and keep them divided...deflecting anger and discontent away from those responsible for unnecessary wars that use Americans as canon fodder.