Precipice

Long-time favorite Mike Gravel is switching parties. Not that this will matter in the upcoming election one bit, but these are the words of someone itching for a fight, if only someone would take him up on it:

…the Democratic Party no longer represents my vision for our great country.

The fact is, the Democratic Party today is no longer the party of FDR. It is a party that continues to sustain war, the military-industrial complex and imperialism – all of which I find anathema to my views.

By and large, I have been repeatedly marginalized in both national debates and in media exposure by the Democratic leadership, which works in tandem with the corporate interests that control what we read and hear in the media.

He’s going Libertarian. I should have seen it coming. I got one of their flyers in the mail last week.

Operating within the system” also means operating without it. His prescience in this clip is astounding.

March 26 2008