making a quick referal to americablog, one of my favorite sources for info about those bastards. check out the longer post about the washington post's mislabelling bloggers as the "liberal base" of the democratic party.
a few words on that topic myself. i am pretty liberal on the whole, as the profile stuff to the right would attest. i do believe in big government as the only possible alternative to the (infinitely preferable but virtually impossible) no government option. though my liberalism isn't pure, neither do i consider it an inappropriate or even scathing label. i'm proud to be pretty damned liberal.
that said, i am not a part of the democratic party's "base." i am essentially pragmatic in this regard. the democratic party represents a shift toward my side. i do not think that a third party can win real influence until one of the two currently in power goes down in flames. of the two, i'm hoping that's the one with a wing currently on fire. basically, i want the republikkkans out because they're so good at playing politics, even when they're openly evil, they get support. the democrats are essentially weak due to their pandering to the "centrist majority," and as such my angry liberal people's party would be able to gain a foothold.
until then, vote democrat: they're not strong enough to be (genuinely) evil
and fuck bush.
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