2006: The Year of the Progressive Movement

The D.C. Establishment wants to deny it, but they will not be able to deny it much longer. It is a gathering danger to their corrupt and/or 'gooey rot' lifestyles.

The perfect political storm is gathering force and it will have effects way beyond the November election.

The DC establishment will look like New Orleans before we are through.

Sirotablog:

"There are many reasons to be optimistic these days if you are a progressive. A look accross the 2006 campaign landscape shows that our movement is no longer theoretical - it is very real, and increasing in power every single day.

But as the Denver Post today notes in a piece about our growing movement, progressives also face stiff opposition in the form of a corrupt political Establishment desperate to preserve the status quo. The confrontation brewing between this new movement and the Establishment is not to be downplayed - it is escalating, and it will have profound results that go far beyond just one election.

The Denver Post notes that those defending the status quo are, to be sure, entrenched. 'Political corruption comes in two varieties,' the Post notes. 'There are brazen payoffs, and then there is a kind of gooey rot: the venal abandonment of principles, spurred by the favors of corporate lobbyists and the need for campaign cash.' Ultimately, 'All but the toughest pols and pundits get seduced, and over time, the party establishment starts to stipulate: globalization is a blessing, free trade is sacred, billionaires need tax breaks, job loss is inevitable, workers are expendable, wages will decline, the war in Iraq is necessary.'"