I’ve sacrificed the austere beauty of my Wordpress theme to join the important-but-lamely-named “Strange Bedfellows” coalition — I like their official PAC name, Accountability Now, a lot better — as you can now see from a button at the bottom of the sidebar there. Now that I’ve added one button I suppose I might whore myself out thoroughly and put a few more there, but they won’t all get their own posts, because Glenn Greenwald won’t have made such a devastatingly convincing post on their behalf.
You should read the whole thing if it’s not obvious to you why it’s important to have an organization devoted to holding Democrats’ feet to the fire, but this passage in particular struck me as relevant to today’s discussions:
As the 2006 election and these subsequent events conclusively demonstrate, mindlessly supporting and electing more Democrats for its own sake doesn’t solve or even mitigate anything. But it’s also true that actions which result in handing Republicans control over any branches of the Government — including supporting third-party candidates or abstaining from the process altogether — makes matters worse still. Nobody who finds the above-documented events objectionable can rationally embrace a course of action that directly or indirectly empowers those who are the prime forces behind these events: namely, the mainstream GOP in its current incarnation.
All of that, in turn, leads to this pressing question: what is the best course for those who want to battle against these civil-liberties-destroying, rule-of-law-trampling, war-making policies that the GOP leadership pushes and the Democratic Party leadership supports, enables, and/or passively accepts? In a two-party system where blind support for either party will do nothing but perpetuate these policies, how can they be undermined?
I don’t really have any disposable income for the moneybomb, but if you do you might consider giving.
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