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• Sunday, July 12, 2009 10:53 PM

  @mgriscom

  You wrote "Vote Democrat, or be a Slave." Respectfully, and as someone who as a lifelong Democrat came to this conclusion slowly and painfully, I think "Vote Democrat, and be a Slave" is just as accurate. Yes, you might be less of a slave under Democrats than the current Republican Party, but you will be a slave none the less.

  The current Democratic Party is no longer the party of the working class. They are, at the national level, entirely out of touch. Elitist even. What we have now are Demopublican/Republicrats. The positions and policies of the Democratic Party in this day and age are well to the right of Nixon. The Republican Party has moved to the fringe right in the last three decades. The Democrats have taken the place that the Republican Party used to occupy. The middle did not hold.

  If you are waiting for actual leadership on economic issues from the Obama-led Democratic Party which focuses on rising wages, fair trade and people instead of propping up the money changers of Wall Street and mega-banks, my advice is don't hold your breath.

  Politics in America is broken. The system is broken. Laws? They only apply to us little people. But regardless of that, the fact is that the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are both working as hard as they can to prop up and sustain an unsustainable status quo. Neither party is being truthful about our economic system, our debts, our resources or the future. Neither has the spine. Unfortunately, it's the masses that will wind up paying the price.

  —Roman Berry Read Roman Berry's other letters
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