So this question is really directed at the Left leaning members of the board. Some time ago, on the order of decades, the Republican party started to veer off a bit from what was generally agreed to be the Republican beliefs. Promote business, free market, smaller government, all of that. The term RINO (Republican In Name Only) was coined to describe those who ran on the R ticket but werent, really, Republican in their actions or how they voted.
It got to the point where the true conservatives felt they had been sold out and betrayed by the Republican politicians.
Looking at the current climate of Democrats I have to wonder if a similar detachment between beliefs and actions isnt happening on the "Other Side" as well.
So to the Democrats and liberals, do you feel as if the Democrats you voted for and supported have not held true to the Democratic beliefs? Do you feel sold out by those you supported?
First, if you aren't aware I've said this about the Democratic party for years, over and over, why?
I'll repeat my position:
The Republican party has purged itself of its liberals, and now its moderates. It's a whore party, not frankly - some out of choice, some out of greed, some out of necessity for political survival.
That's not quite what you mistakenly remember the party as. There is a corruption that's always been there, but is now exaggerated and dominant. In short, it seems a pretty lost cause.
Democrats have had a similar invasion. The same powers that keep increasing their power and dominance over goverment that took charge over the Republicans, are hardly oblivious to the Democrats - if they can do the same there, they egt both choices and the American people lose. These interests are mostly the corporotocracy and rich class, the 'screw the American people, give us the freedom to profit from wrong, transferred wealth upward, low taxes on the rich, repeal the middle class's rise' people.
And they have long made inroads to the Democrats. They didn't have much influence with Carter, but by Clinton, they sort of told him who's boss, and he looked at the situation and caved. There's been a "DLC" wing in the party that embraces this corporate alliance - it's the front of the war to drive out liberals and become the sister part to the Republicans that the Republicans were when they drove out their members not on the same page.
In my opinion, the well being of US politics largely rests on this battle - the real war between the corporatist interests, who really are winning heavily, and the public interest.
This is why I say over and over how people need to support the progressives, who are the only major faction standing up to the corruption.
The answer to your post is 'yes, I see that'. Yes, I'm disappointed in Obama and the corporatist Dems, and at how well the corporatists are spreading - not only against the progressives but against the public.
Third parties are all but impossible to get anywhere without rule changes not likely anytime soon. All they can do at best is defeat the arty they're closer to by splitting the vote.