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June 21 is Moving Day
Posted on June 12, 2005
Popular blogger and long-time Democrat Jim Leftwich has reached a turning point. He is calling on progressives to switch to the Green Party en masse on Summer Solstice, June 21, 2005.
Here are excerpts from his statement. You can find the full statement at http://movingday.typepad.com/
"I propose that we declare this year's Summer Solstice, Tuesday June 21, 2005, to be Moving Day. Whereupon longtime Democrats such as myself, on one day and en masse, move to a party that has the set of values and principles that the Democrat party not only used to stand for, but used to successfully fight for, both on the legislative floor AND in the hearts and minds of the American people.
It is time that we joined the Green party, bringing to it the sheer numbers of people it now lacks to wield significant political power, and begin the long journey of creating a world that will be better and sustainable for generations hence.
I cannot begin to describe the deep sadness I have when I think of what the Democrat party has lost. But have now, as a single individual, come to the conclusion that the Democrat party is a failed and ruined institution. It it truly, and fundamentally time to move on.
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I believe that we must abandon a party that can only manage, at its best, to offer up a weak and reactionary protest after the fact. That is not enough to save this country. We need a new model.
That model, that set of values, that truly and deeply progressive and whole vision already exists. It can be found in the Green party."