sailingaway
02-15-2013, 12:17 AM
This is the guy who coined the name for Blue Republicans to begin with. He is suggesting this Dem candidate deserves a look:
The newest and fastest growing political grouping in the U.S. is driven by the idea that the problems that are facing the nation today have been caused not just by the left wing or the right wing, but by the mainstream of both parties, which have for years been eliminating our civil rights, sponsoring and benefiting from a crony corporatist economic system, and operating a militaristic foreign policy, seemingly to the benefit of a military industrial complex more than that to the benefit of the nation.
This growing group of anti-Republicrats are mostly young people who've been educating themselves about their nation and its workings -- rather than relying on the typically dull mainstream media that continue to filter events through the mistaken ideas that the Democrats and Republicans have fundamentally different political perspectives, and that on any particular issue, one of the parties will know the best political direction for the nation.
In 2012, most of these post-partisan Americans who say to America's political duopoly, "Pox on both your houses", are supporting Ron Paul for president, even though very many of them have never before identified Republican.
Now their influence is beginning to be felt outside the Republican party -- and not just in the presidential election.
In the 10th District of New Jersey, a candidate for the Democratic nomination to represent his district in Congress, is finally asking the question that hundreds of thousands of young American liberals have already asked -- and whose answer has caused them to leave his party.
The candidate is Dennis Flynn, and his campaign video begins by asking, "Where Have Our Liberal Values Gone?"
The voiceover proceeds to provide the motivation for the question ...
more at link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robin-koerner/ron-paul-dennis-flynn_b_1552072.html?ref=tw
The newest and fastest growing political grouping in the U.S. is driven by the idea that the problems that are facing the nation today have been caused not just by the left wing or the right wing, but by the mainstream of both parties, which have for years been eliminating our civil rights, sponsoring and benefiting from a crony corporatist economic system, and operating a militaristic foreign policy, seemingly to the benefit of a military industrial complex more than that to the benefit of the nation.
This growing group of anti-Republicrats are mostly young people who've been educating themselves about their nation and its workings -- rather than relying on the typically dull mainstream media that continue to filter events through the mistaken ideas that the Democrats and Republicans have fundamentally different political perspectives, and that on any particular issue, one of the parties will know the best political direction for the nation.
In 2012, most of these post-partisan Americans who say to America's political duopoly, "Pox on both your houses", are supporting Ron Paul for president, even though very many of them have never before identified Republican.
Now their influence is beginning to be felt outside the Republican party -- and not just in the presidential election.
In the 10th District of New Jersey, a candidate for the Democratic nomination to represent his district in Congress, is finally asking the question that hundreds of thousands of young American liberals have already asked -- and whose answer has caused them to leave his party.
The candidate is Dennis Flynn, and his campaign video begins by asking, "Where Have Our Liberal Values Gone?"
The voiceover proceeds to provide the motivation for the question ...
more at link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robin-koerner/ron-paul-dennis-flynn_b_1552072.html?ref=tw