The nomination of Sarah Palin saw the unleashing of vicious attacks against her, particularly by left-wing "feminists" (the need for the use of quotes can be dealt with in another post, but is hopefully self-evident). They threw Senator Clinton under the bus for a misogynist, and then turned their sights on Palin. It should now be clear to all who were not engaged in the PUMA movement this past summer that women's rights are in fact not valued by the current party leadership. To them, reproductive rights are only for those women who choose abortion (though when the Democratic Convention opens in Denver with a religious convocation where the keynote speaker openly condemns abortion it is arguable that the new DNC is preparing to fast track the adoption of the abolition of reproductive rights as we know them to the Democratic Party platform); women's liberation only applies to Left leaning women who choose to pursue family, career, and holding public office. The level of hypocrisy is staggering, but honestly not surprising. After all, this is the party that made Nancy Pelosi, the now famous panderer and Bush lapdog, Speaker of the House.
The current economic crisis has exposed this corrupting of values as well. It is now well documented that what began as a desire to help minorities and low income Americans have a shot at owning their own piece of the American dream, became an open floodgate for rampant and unchecked speculation and abuse. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, along with other Congressional Democrats, stood in the way of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reform and are knee deep in questionable connections to both. They also happen to be major beneficiaries of Fannie and Freddie largess, with Dodd and Obama receiving the largest purses from the now failed companies (Obama receiving in three years more than 5 times the amount given to John McCain in 18.5 years). Frank went on record in 2003 as a denier that there were any problems on the horizon regarding Fannie and Freddie. These people helped open the door, turned a blind eye, and benefitted financially and politically from the abuses that generated this crisis. Now they are cheering the loudest for a $700 billion giveaway of our money, which will at best put a bony finger the dike, so they can rescue their benefactors.
Party appartchiks at all levels helped enforce a predetermined outcome at the Democratic National Convention this past August in violation of the most sacred tenets of the Party's charter. This in the wake of the Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting in May that set our rebellion in motion. Now we are watching them create an outlet for voter fraud in Ohio, and using their positions to violate the Constitution in Missouri.
We are not simply talking about bringing down the junta that brought the bitter taste of fascism to the Democratic Party. If we are going to speak of reform then we must be prepared to engage in nothing less than ending the political careers of the corrupt politicians responsible for this mess, and rebuilding the Democratic Party from the Congress, all the way down to state and local levels. To put it another way; if the Democratic Party were on "Home Again" Bob Vila would be dealing with a colonial mansion, ravaged by termites and rot, needing to be stripped to its foundations to be completely renovated and restored. I envy the relative ease of Bob's task.
It would certainly be easier and safer to sit back and let all of this happen, go back to our private lives, and go to sleep, but it's not in our nature. Voices from our past call us. Our history makes demands on us that we cannot ignore:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
~ Declaration of Independence, 1776
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled. The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.
~ Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
When faced with a political entity that has done us harm, impinged on our rights and freedoms, are we not obliged to alter it so that it better effects our Safety and Happiness? Undoubtedly Chairman Dean and the DNC hope our answer is no. Dr. Dean, consider that bubble to be burst.
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