Over the past couple of weeks, as we xDems have begun to organize, we’ve seen the formation of a coalition in Congress made up of Republicans and just enough Democrats to ensure that the will of the people can’t be done.

Democrats seem to be joining Republicans in increasing numbers for no other purpose than to frustrate the public will as expressed in the last congressional election, in which the issues were war and malfeasance. Now that the election is over, the Democrats who took office on a pledge to end the war and call the malfeasors to account have turned their backs on the voters who put them there.

Just this week Democrats lent critical support to right-wing initiatives:

• Provoking Iran and facilitating a unilateral act of aggression by the president
• Decreeing the ethnic partitioning of Iraq
• Funding the war in Iraq
• Condemning an advertisement critical of the war and the warmakers

Conventional wisdom holds that these Democrats have acted to attract the votes of right-wingers in their districts to whoever emerges as their presidential candidate next year. Courage of conviction is out, with politics at center stage. As for the presidential candidates, three of them, Clinton, Edwards and Obama, refuse to guarantee an end to the war in Iraq before the end of their first term.

And that’s just in this week’s news. We can pretend that there are good Democrats we should stick with and bad Democrats we should repudiate, but if the good ones are tolerating the bad ones, even encouraging them, then they all deserve repudiation.

We keep receiving a ready supply of news, unfortunately. It’s embarassing to think that xDems would consider it a great victory if all the Democrats in Congress ever voted for something we believe in. We’re here because we know that’s impossible.

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Dear xDem.

A couple of dozen of us are now signed up with xDem.org. That doesn’t sound like many, but it’s certainly enough to start something. We can begin by organizing ourselves. I’m just an opinionated writer who can do a little programming. I’m a pretty good facilitater, but I’m just one guy, and so we’ll all have to be organizers.

My plan for now is to keep the blog supplied with links to articles I find about Democrats’ failure to heed democrats’ demands, and anybody that wants to help with that is welcome. I’ve been surprised at the ready supply of material. When I cast my first vote for Hubert Humphrey, I never thought the party would come to this.

I’ll also maintain a database with all our names. Most of us have supplied full names, and I’m assuming we’re all genuine. You never know about that, however.

I plan to circulate short emails to our list fairly regularly. Many of us have cluttered email folders–I know I do–but this is a tool we ought to use and if we have to intrude on each other from time to time, it’s an inconvenience most of us can live with. If you want to send me addresses of people to email, I’ll send them something.

The blog can accommodate anybody who wants to write about any aspect of the corruption of the Democratic party, so keep your pens sharpened.

We probably ought to have a governing board of some kind, but maybe that can wait till we’re bigger.

I’m calling us, maybe a little grandiosely, the movement that doesn’t know it’s a movement. My impression is that, as xDems, we tend to side with the little guy, defend human rights, distrust wealth, denounce violence, and crave equal justice. We believe that our convictions are shared by the majority of patriotic Americans.

We’re readers, and we read over and over that our convictions don’t match the policy objectives of the Democratic party, which seems to pander at every opportunity to bigots, chauvinists, zealots, and bullies. Instead of asking us what we think is best for America, they’re busy currying favor with people we consider un-American.

With this site, we have a tool to organize ourselves, inform ourselves, and test our resolve.

Dear xDem.

A couple of dozen of us are now signed up with xDem.org. That doesn’t sound like many, but it’s certainly enough to start something. We can begin by organizing ourselves. I’m just an opinionated writer who can do a little programming. I’m a pretty good facilitater, but I’m just one guy, and so we’ll all have to be organizers.

My plan for now is to keep the blog supplied with links to articles I find about Democrats’ failure to heed democrats’ demands, and anybody that wants to help with that is welcome. I’ve been surprised at the ready supply of material. When I cast my first vote for Hubert Humphrey, I never thought the party would come to this.

I’ll also maintain a database with all our names. Most of us have supplied full names, and I’m assuming we’re all genuine. You never know about that, however.

I plan to circulate short emails to our list fairly regularly. Many of us have cluttered email folders–I know I do–but this is a tool we ought to use and if we have to intrude on each other from time to time, it’s an inconvenience most of us can live with. If you want to send me addresses of people to email, I’ll send them something.

The blog can accommodate anybody who wants to write about any aspect of the corruption of the Democratic party, so keep your pens sharpened.

We probably ought to have a governing board of some kind, but maybe that can wait till we’re bigger.

I’m calling us, maybe a little grandiosely, the movement that doesn’t know it’s a movement. My impression is that, as xDems, we tend to side with the little guy, defend human rights, distrust wealth, denounce violence, and crave equal justice. We believe that our convictions are shared by the majority of patriotic Americans.

We’re readers, and we read over and over that our convictions don’t match the policy objectives of the Democratic party, which seems to pander at every opportunity to bigots, chauvinists, zealots, and bullies. Instead of asking us what we think is best for America, they’re busy currying favor with people we consider un-American.

With this site, we have a tool to organize ourselves, inform ourselves, and test our resolve.

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