While the current administration pursues an imperial foreign policy, and an increasingly totalitarian domestic policy, the democrats have been all but silent.
Bill Moyers explains why:
Why aren’t we hearing more from the Democratic Party about this whole range of issues?
I think the primary reason is that the Democratic Party has bought into the same thing. It is as obligated to corporate fundraising, to money, as the Republicans. They have to raise as much money as the Republicans do, and they go to essentially the same sources for it: wealthy, privileged people, the 1 percent of this country that contributes most of the money to political campaigns. So the interests of the donor class come to dominate both parties. The people who get your attention once you’re in office are not the people who voted for you but the people who paid for your price of admission.
Yep. What he said.
And now it gets worse: since Bush has (apparently successfully) defined his task as kicking ass in Iraq rather than making the country or the world better/saner/safer/more peaceful/more just, we can expect the critics of the war to be slammed with criticism in the form of “Nyah, nyah, you whiners didn’t think we could do it but we did! All hail Emperor Bush!” A few brave voices will question Bush’s definition of a successful presidency, but I fear that his critics will be increasingly demoralized and, in winner-take-all political terms, irrelevant.
I’m sincerely glad that Saddam’s statues are coming down, but I’m very fearful about what will or won’t be going up in their place.