The Democratic Party is Still Dead
While searching for something else, I ran across the following article from way back in 2001 by Robert B. Reich in the Washington Post: The Democratic Party is Dead. Isn't serendipity great? It's real short piece — I'll wait while you read it.

I guess what I find the most surprising and depressing is how true the basic premise of Secretary Reich's article still is. Before the current administration I would have classified myself as centrist leaning towards Republican. Now I have no idea what I am, but I know, based on deeds, not rhetoric, that there is no way in Hell that I am a Republican. Go to any extremist left-wing, pinko, commie web page to find out why. Pretty much everything those whack jobs have been ranting about for the last couple of decades is true. I'm sorry it took me so long to get to the party.

But that's the problem! Where is the party? The primary organizing principle of the Democratic Party seems to be, "Well, at least we're not the goddamn Republicans!" Okay, great, but where's the beef? With a couple of weeks before the elections to go, the fact that I can't tell you what the Democrats are about should be a huge red flag for somebody. I'm very afraid that the current status quo that has so badly bungled Iraq and Afghanistan and has been gleefully chipping away at our civil liberties while jobs head overseas and, in my state, foreign trash gets shipped in to our landfills, will sit unchanged after the election with its voting, vote fraud, tampering and legal posturing.

I suppose I can always hope for a Libertarian surge this year...