Democrats Are Full of It: (From Ralph Nader)

[Guest guest]

Have the Democrats learned anything from 2004?

 

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Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National

Committee, now wishes President Bush “success” for his

war in Iraq.

 

" Now that we're there, we're there and we can't get

out, " Dean told an audience of nearly 1,000 at the

Minneapolis Convention Center on April 20, 2005. " The

president has created an enormous security problem for

the United States where none existed before,” Dean

said. “But I hope the president is incredibly

successful with his policy now that he's there.”

 

Two months earlier, Bush's CIA Director, Porter J.

Goss, told the Senate that the U.S. occupation has

become a potent recruitment tool for more terrorists

from Iraq and other countries.

 

The military/industrialist Senator from New York,

Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for her party’s 2008

Presidential nomination, continues to support the war

in Iraq.

 

And now she is supporting International Paper’s plan

to test burn used automobile tires at its Ticonderoga,

New York facility – making the Republican Governor of

Vermont – across the waters of Lake Champlain – look

like an environmentalist for opposing the burn.

 

The test burn is the company’s first step in a plan to

burn 72 tons of tires a day at the facility.

 

Vermont PIRG points out that the company’s boiler is

not properly equipped to catch the highly toxic

pollutants that are coming out of the plant right now,

yet alone the witches brew of heavy metals and cancer

causing chemicals released from burning tires.

 

Two years ago this week, President Bush, standing

under a “Mission Accomplished” banner aboard the USS

Lincoln, proclaimed the end of major combat operations

in Iraq.

 

Since then, more than 1,400 Americans and more than

100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq.

 

And the Democrats can’t muster a single member of

Congress to formally call for the impeachment of Bush

for his ongoing illegal war.

 

Democrats as an opposition party?

 

The Democrats want you to believe that they are the

only game in town.

 

They don’t need to lie to do this.

 

They can bullshit their way.

" On Bullshit " is the title of New York Times' best

selling book (number four and climbing) by retired

Princeton University philosophy professor Harry G.

Frankfurt.

 

“Since bullshit need not be false, it differs from

lies in its mis-representational intent,” Professor

Frankfurt writes. “The bullshitter may not deceive us,

or even intend to do so, either about the facts or

about what he takes the facts to be. What he does

necessarily attempt to deceive us about is his

enterprise. His only indispensably distinctive

characteristic is that in a certain way he

misrepresents what he is up to.”

 

Perfect description of the Democrats.

 

No lies needed.

 

And what exactly is their enterprise?

 

To make us believe that they are a true opposition

party.

 

Yet the Democrats in Congress can’t find the internal

fortitude to stop Bush’s legislative agenda on

bankruptcy, tort deform, repeal of the estate tax, and

the energy bill, much less to vigorously propose a

worthy agenda of their own.

 

The reality is that there is no opposition party in

the United States.

 

The Democrats and Republicans are two heads of the

same mega corporate machine.

 

And the only opposition is going to come from the

people, steeped in the history of resistance to

corporate power, and equipped with the tools to change

from within.

 

We’ve recently returned from a two week anti-war tour

of Arizona, California and upstate New York.

 

To all of you who came out to listen, learn, react and

activate – it was great meeting with you and

discussing with you the state of our political

economy.

 

To those of you who chipped in to help us drive down

our 2004 civil liberties debt – incurred fighting off

the corporate Democrats driving to push us off the

ballot in many states – we say, thank you.

 

We have raised over $500,000 since the election and

now are looking at $95,000 that we must pay off over

the course of the next few months.

 

To both help move our campaign into the black, and to

gain more of an understanding of the current political

dilemma facing our nation, we make you this offer: For

a donation of $100 to our campaign, we will mail to

you a copy of Professor Frankfurt’s best-selling book,

" On Bullshit " , (Princeton University Press, 2005).

 

In addition, I will send you a copy of " Civics for

Democracy " , a 338-page history of major citizen

movements and a detailed guide to social change.

 

This book has become a perfect teaching manual for all

people – it will help identify the bullshitters that

dominate our political arena – and forge alliances

with your fellow citizen activists to organize for

lasting social justice.

 

That’s Professor Frankfurt’s best-selling " On

Bullshit " , and the classic " Civics for Democracy " –

all for a contribution of $100 to our campaign.

 

If out of our tens of thousands of supporters, only

950 of you act now, we will be freed from this imposed

civil liberties debt so that we can move aggressively

to challenge the political duopoly that plagues this

great land of ours.

 

Purchase them both for yourself, or give them to a

friend or someone you love.

 

And please let your friends and family know about this

invitation by forwarding this letter to your e-mail

address book.

 

Thank you for your generous support and bright

horizons.

 

Sincerely,

 

Ralph Nader

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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