Glenn Greenwald has a nice post up at Salon today about the only tactic the Democrats consistently employ: ye olde bait and switch. As Greenwald puts it, the Democrats are "willing to feign support for anything their voters want just as long as there's no chance that they can pass it." Then, when it comes to brass knuckles, they all lay down and play dead.
You know who I don't want to be? Ralph Nader. I don't want to be all self-righteous and bitter and craggy and go around saying that both of the parties that are supposed to represent us are actually just paid subsidiaries of corporations. But it's hard to avoid.
By the by, it's interesting that corporations are people as far as free speech goes (and ownership of property, and so on) but not as far as taxes go. Harper's informs me (in one of their soul-crushing indexes) that Goldman Sachs paid 0.6% of their income in taxes last year.
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