The biggest challenge is to puncture the idea that the Democrats might be the vehicle of that change!
Cheers, Ken Hanly
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> <http://www.democracycorps.com/reports/analyses/
> Democracy_Corps_October_30_2007_Memo.pdf>
>
> RE: FINDING THEIR VOICE AS THE AGENTS OF CHANGE
>
> The state of the country and the Democrats on[e]
> year before 2008
> election
>
> If Americans have ever been angrier with the state
> of the country, we
> have not witnessed
> it; certainly not in 1992 when discontented voters
> brought the
> Republican Party down to an
> historic low, giving one in five of their votes to
> an unstable 3rd
> party candidate and putting Bill
> Clinton in the White House. The scale of today’s
> discontent is
> evident in the 70 percent who
> now say the country is off on the wrong track and in
> George Bush’s
> job approval and personal
> ratings, now at their lowest levels ever.
>
> But that number is a superficial read of the
> contempt and deep
> frustration with the leaders
> of the country and our times; a period that leaves
> America trapped in
> an unnecessary war, while
> neglecting to take care of things at home and
> protect its own borders
> and jobs and living
> standards; a period that leaves the average middle
> class person
> struggling with rising costs,
> medical and gas bills, while politicians and big
> business special
> interests take care of themselves,
> not the country. They believe America is losing
> ground to countries
> around the world that are
> rushing to catch up, while our leaders are
> rudderless. The biggest
> challenge and opportunity one
> year out from the 2008 election is whether the
> Democrats will become
> the voice of that change.
>
> [...]
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