By Kent R. Kroeger (Source: NuQum.com, February 22, 2018)
We have two political parties in this country. The Republican Party and the Other Republican Party (or sometimes called Republicrats). Both are pro-War, pro-Big-Banks, pro-Government-Spying-On-Its-Citizens, pro-Corporate-Welfare, pro-Big-Oil, and pro-Big-Government.
This is not the rant of a frustrated progressive. I am more of a libertarian, mostly. But if I were a progressive, I would be frustrated at how my natural home — — the Democrats — — is inhospitable to progressives right now.
Barack Obama’s choice for Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair, Tom Perez, started purging progressives from the party’s leadership last fall and the DNC is already rigging the congressional primaries to favor DNC-approved, establishment candidates.
And the progressive media has noticed.
“On the eve of the Unity Commission, Tom Perez purges the party of a bunch of long-time progressives who were delegates,” complained progressive radio host Jimmy Dore, whose YouTube podcast attracts 300,000 subscribers. “Tom Perez is the enemy of progressives…and the friend of corporations who are screwing America.”
When asked what choice progressives have other than to stick with the Democratic Party, Dore responded, “They…
