THE PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS COULD CONFRONT OBAMA'S REACTIONARY POLICIES

Most of the Democratic Party is completely bought and sold, just like the Republicans. Who has bought them?  It is the rich in general and the rich one percent in a little more particularity.  Yet there is a tiny group of more or less progressive Democrats who even have a caucus for themselves.  They call themselves the Progressive Caucus. What could such a small group do to change the political game?

Well, they haven't done much to change anything which is one reason fewer and fewer people believe that the Democratic Party will ever play a role in progressive change. Of course, this is pretty much my conviction. There is a one percent chance the Democrats will do things that are actually liberatory.

Yet a united Progressive Caucus could wield the influence of a small party in a Parliamentary system. Just for example, the Progressive Caucus can block Obama's sellout to big business on the health care denial industry front.  Obama completely sold out! I suppose the bought and sold Democrats are already expecting to give up because of Republican opposition but it is just as possible for the much smaller progressive caucus to play this sort of hardball.

  In a Parliamentary system such maneuvers would be obvious and accepted but the "winner take all" political culture of the United States, created to protect powerful minorities blocks the democratic expression of any party which cannot get the sacred absolute majority of votes.  

  Yet this terrible flaw, this terrible deliberate design error of the slave owner's Constitution need not define the mentality of the dimwits in the Progressive Caucus. So all you Bubbas over there in the so-called Progressive Caucus, throw off your "majority rule" mentality because the so-called "majority rule" in our elections, in the Congress and in our society more generally is protecting "minority rule", the rule of the class that owns and operates society increasingly in its interest alone. Yes, in the United States of America majority rule protects minority rule!



  Progressive demand in the population is overwhelming but the Democrats, as well as the Republican parties are all about denying the people their democratic rights and the fulfillment of their actual political desires.

  The Progressive Caucus could run the Clintonites and Obamaites out of the party and run with the increasingly revolutionary demands of the progressive supermajority in the population. The Democratic party could become democratic!  Or the Progressive Caucus can continue to sit on its hands until others take history into theirs.  Progressive Caucus, GET OFF YOUR ROYAL ROTUNDAS!

  Certainly the ONE PERCENT have done a pretty good job of keeping both the Democrats and Republicans on their chain.  Are the so-called progressives in the Democratic Party ever going to do anything like rule America on behalf of the 99 percent?

The Progressive Caucus could threaten Obama with impeachment because the Republicans would impeach him for anything, anyhow, anyway. How about impeaching Obama for torture or war crimes unless he prosecutes Cheney and Bush? You get the idea.

  Progressive Caucus leaders could call the Oval office just for example, "Dear Mr. President, we may file for impeachment this week unless you cancel yout stupid sh-t nuclear power and nuclear weapons programs.  Impeach you for what?  For the nuke policies, Sir, but the Republicans will come up with some other charges, no doubt.  Still with your policies being so similar to theirs with this nuke stuff it will be amusing to watch them cook your goose.  Is that a hopeful goose, you ask?  I don't know, Sir, but it is an impeached goose.  Yes, Mr. President, it would be a bipartisan victory."

"Dear Mr. President, let's put a ten percent tax on the wealth of the top one percent of the population this week or we will have to get together with Congressional leaders on the Republican side to initiate impeachment proceedings. What's that, Mr. President, you say you found a new hope? Well, I hope so, Sir, but unless we get that ten percent we'll be seeing you in court so to speak."