If you're like me, you may have thought in the past three weeks that you were through with the Democratic Party. They seemed to be ignoring some of us activists who have been calling for standing up, fighting, and making clearer statements about Liberal Values, and what the party stands for. I had thought that I would fight for this, but then if I didn't see it happening soon, I would go the way of a third party candidate in 2008, BUT then I read "The Despoiling of America" by Kathrine Yurica. Please google search this paper and read it or skim it (it's very long and includes many footnotes). You may agree with me after reading this that it is more important than ever to keep the dominionists and neoconservatives at bay by voting Democrat in the next few elections even if the choice isn't as good as we would like.
I have made a decision to keep fighting to reform the Democratic party, but failing that, to vote Democratic in 2006 and 2008 anyway and then to keep fighting to reform the Democratic party until it reforms. I have also decided to take all my mutual funds and put them in socially responsible funds, I have dropped more corporations from my buying list, I shop for food as locally as I can, and when financially possible I am going to go solar on my house and electric on my car. I can only hope that these decisions that I have made will be decisions that many will make and together we can change things for the better in our country. Please read "The Despoiling of America" for yourself and then see if you agree with me. If you do agree, be as loud as possible in asking people to stand with you, and fight against what you see happening in this country by using your money and your voice and your vote to turn things around.