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I am not a slavering fan of Palast - I mean, I think he's wrong when he diagnoses voter purging/class warfare by the wealthy as being primarily motivated by class (as opposed to race - his argument is that they're out to get the poor, who just happen to be people of color. Uh, no). There are other issues too
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You know, if you're trying to rally me to a cause, insulting me isn't the best way to go about it! :)
(for the record, I consider myself to be a fairly mainstream democrat on everything except gay rights, where I think I trend further left than the mainstream of the party. And I'd call that center-left.)
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I tend to associate the "Democratic Party" with the DLC and see it as a monolithic body to which no one I know belongs. And since I'm nowhere near the center, the Clinton years of NAFTA, welfare destruction, and increased privatization seem GOP material to me.
I think it's mostly that I've managed to move so far left I have to guard myself against anarchosocialism, since I'm pretty sure they all end up becoming libertarians and I don't want that. Ayn Rand novels are too, too horrible for me to suffer that fate.
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Except, you totally do know somebody who belongs to the actual institution of the Democratic Party. I know it's hard to break patterns of thinking, but geez, what am I, chopped liver? :-)
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However, in the future I will delineate between Clinton-era/American Prospect/DLC nonsense and the Democratic Party. Former bad, latter becoming more promising.
I type this while wearing an Obama sweatshirt, so I really have no leg to stand on myself.
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