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Call for a New Party
(Robin Miller, Dissident Voice, December 2, 2002)
To be an American today is to confront an economic system that drains the lifeblood from our people, and promises the same fate to our children. . . . To be an American today is to be certain of the failure of our political process. . . . The American people have not agreed to this savage distortion of priorities and violation of American ideals. No rational people would. But with both political parties and the mainstream media firmly in the control of the wealthy, that sliver of our population is permitted to dictate our country's direction. This is the reality to which thirty years of post-Vietnam progressive organizing has brought us. . . . We must form a new national political party, offering a new politics--the politics of justice, compassion, humility, and faith. We must compete for power in the only avenue through which real change is possible--the electoral system. . . . This party will compete for power at the national level. Only election to Congress has the potential to affect national policies and provide national media exposure. . . . Initially, this party will limit itself to candidates for the House of Representatives. Voters are willing to elect political newcomers as federal representatives. Conversely, we will not devote any of our limited resources to quixotic presidential campaigns. (We'll defer until later the question of running senatorial candidates.) . . . Our goal is to trisect the American electorate. If we could earn the votes of one-third of those who didn't vote in the 2000 election, and 15 percent of those who did, we would have a vote total comparable to those of the Democratic and Republican parties. Accomplishing this will require a massive, national voter education and registration drive. . . . The Democratic Party is not an alternative. It is beholden to the same interests as the Republicans; we have seen what each has to offer. The Democratic Party may play good cop to the Republicans' bad cop, but both serve the same masters. . . . to rely on the Democratic Party is unthinkable.

posted by Lorenzo 4:24 PM