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[Two Americas]

I think that if I speak freely now I run the risk of being tossed here. I think that silencing us was always the goal of those who control the party, and all of their sycophants at all levels of the party, and at some point it becomes a matter of being quiet or of being purged for being disloyal. It isn't the party or the front runner candidates we are being asked to be loyal to, it is a Republican lite philosophy that we must be loyal to. We know that in our heart of hearts, and to deny it is to go back on all of the things we have been saying here, everything we said we believed in.

I am more than willing to continue the discussion. I am not abandoning any of you ever. I am first and foremost loyal to the millions of left out and left behind people in the country, secondly to those of you who heard and responded to Edwards message, then to the principles and ideals of the Democratic party, and only after those was I loyal to Edwards, and I have no loyalty to those people controlling the party who are fighting against all of those things and people I am loyal to.

I cannot turn reality on its head yet again, deny my perceptions and deny the truth, and be loyal to a corrupted party leadership, and then promote their selected candidate, at the expense of being disloyal to the millions of left out and left behind people in the country, to those of you who heard and responded to Edwards message, and to the principles and ideals of the Democratic party.

I am going to dig up some quotes from Lincoln, because I think that so much he had to say applies to our situation today. I think that current politics resemble nothing so much as they do the politics of the 1850's and the Democratic party today resembles the Whig party from back then.