tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post7569283702139479709..comments2024-03-15T03:20:38.106-05:00Comments on Brains and Eggs: The cowardice of the Texas Democratic Party (or how I turned Bluish-Green)PDiddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05851660342241127485noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-74309215847445398012011-12-05T17:28:22.290-06:002011-12-05T17:28:22.290-06:00My opinion is that Democrats are in no position to...My opinion is that Democrats are in no position to dictate terms to progressives, Katy. If they lose any more voters, the Greens will pass them by in this decade.<br /><br />The Occupy movement isn't political -- yet. But it most certainly isn't ever going to be Democratic. Richard Trumka has warned Congressional Democrats to stop taking his union's support for granted. Their intention is to focus on statehouse races, where public employee pensions are most threatened.<br /><br />The trend is inexorable.<br /><br />Texas Democrats are on a generational losing streak, and when they take actions like they did two weeks ago, it only drives more and younger voters away ... who, once burned by Obama, aren't likely to fall back in line in 2012. See 2010.<br /><br />I'm unconcerned about scorn from my former Democratic brothers and sisters, mostly because that would be coming from an anachronistic point of view.<br /><br />There's a place -- currently it's all but a void -- for a progressive party in this state and nation. Whether it will be the Democratic Party is up to them.PDiddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05851660342241127485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901123.post-31138457571144962262011-12-05T12:43:50.777-06:002011-12-05T12:43:50.777-06:00Just a word of warning: when someone DOES decide t...Just a word of warning: when someone DOES decide to express support for the Green Party, they will be attacked, insulted, and all-around hated by Democrats.<br />It doesn't matter whether you have good reasons or not (reasons like the Democrats not being progressive, ignoring what got them elected, etc)...<br /><br />It also does not matter that the Democratic Party and the Greens have won the same number of races for statewide offices since 1996 (ZERO)...<br /><br />In 2001, I marched with the Green party in the Houston Art Car Parade. This was right after the Nader debacle in Florida. We were booed. I head a kid ask "Mom, are those the people we hate?" Et cetera.<br /><br />It has not gotten any better.<br />Two decades of complete failure by Texas Democrats has not made them reconsider their approach.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.com