Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your (Political) Life

Progressives need to take a step back from the Democratic Party.

Who cares which corporatist they nominate? They will continue to lose until they start to provide a viable alternative to corporate power.

I doubt that there ever was a time in our history when the labor, civil rights, peace and environmental movements have been as unified; too bad they bet it all on a nag.

Now these movements need to secure that unity by getting together behind a simple program:

single payer health insurance,
an increase in the minimum wage, and
the internationalization of American labor and environmental laws.

Lament that Bush won; shed tears for the country; but have no regrets that Kerry lost. He's just another symptom of our political dysfunction.

Joe Hill said, "Don't mourn. Organize!"