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(DV) Zeese: Don't Just Blame the Democrats:

Recently, progressives who supported the Democratic Party in 2004 are expressing dissatisfaction with how Democratic elected officials are voting on the funding of the Iraq war, minimizing bankruptcy protections for working families, weakening the right to file class action lawsuits against abusive corporations, and shying away from environmental protection as well as how the party leadership is moving away from fully protecting a women's right to choose.

Progressives need to recognize they just can't blame the Democrats for this -- it is the liberal intelligentsia that led them down the path of supporting a candidate for president who opposed progressives on many important issues who deserve a large share of the blame. By giving their support to a candidate who openly disagreed with progressives, they sent a message that Democrats will get their vote for nothing -- in other words, progressives could be taken for granted.

When we support conservatives, we get conservative policy - even if those conservatives are democrats. Backing dems is a self-destructive strategy for the left and a major reason for the power the right has today.