Counterpunch column advises progressives: “Don’t mourn, go Green”
Don Santina has an article at Counterpunch entitled “Don’t Mourn, Go Green”, advising progressives who didn’t get what they voted for to join the party that shares their values.
They voted for peace, and they got war–expanded into Pakistan and Yemen with escalation in Afghanistan and continuing occupation in Iraq. They voted for health care reform, and they got Big Pharma’s Frankenstein. They voted for reining in Wall Street, and the got multiple bailouts and fat bonuses on Wall Street and ever increasing foreclosures and evictions on Main Street and Back Street. They voted for jobs, and they got spiraling unemployment. Bring back Habeas Corpus? Nah. Close Guantanamo? Nix. Stop torture? Nein. Fair union organizing in the work place? Tax breaks for he rest of us? Mortgage relief? You gotta be kidding…
On the rank and file level, what if all the progressive Democrat voters registered Green Party tomorrow?
Full article at Counterpunch.
Great commentary. I’ve already officially left the Democrats since 2006 when impeachment was taken off the table. Not yet registered as Green, but I think that is coming soon.