Reply #15: But...they were funded by the Robertson/Falwell/Evangelical Ministers and Mellon-Scaife/Richard [View All]

Vigurie and the Vast Repug Big Bucks backers like Coors and Domino's Pizza...with money for massive mailings...issues that that the RW Evangelicals and Big Money Repugs and even Lobbyists could come together on. Democrats have Hollywood and Mainstream Lobbyists who go with whichever way the power looks like it's heading. There isn't money for Grassroots and the Dem Party in most states is calcified. When the Deniacs started getting involved in local politics, in many states they found the doors bolted shut. They loved the action on the ground but as far as getting in with the Dem "Powers that Be" it is very difficult unless you have alot of money or are a minority organizer with a long track record.

The best thing Howard Dean and the Kucinich and Green Activits have done is try to bring the Dem Party into the Computer Age by getting the Voting Records Computerized so they even know where their own Dems live and how often they vote! The PTB are always happy for volunteers but if you start to rock the boat you get the "Pelosi/Reid" treatment. Everything is "off the table" and just donate but don't expect anything else from us until you have a track record.

Until we have money in the Grassroots and the backing of local power structure it's as hard to break in locally as it is to get Pelosi and Reid to listen to us. Repugs worked from the bottom up...building coalitions. We need the money on the Dem side and to have the Developers and Business interests supporting us. That's not easy for Democrats to do unless we want Clintonomics/DLC policies forever...

It will take misery in this country economically before we Progressives can get some backing for our ideas. That will be coming shortly. THEN we will have our chance...and we better use it.