Dems, We're Citizens, Not Consumers - The Smirking Chimp

Dems, We're Citizens, Not Consumers - The Smirking Chimp: "This Democratic notion that what matters to Americans is an agenda to meet their physical needs may represent a fatal flaw in the party. Democratic leaders miss the philosophical element of the American spirit through which citizens define themselves as participants in a grand experiment of democracy.

Therefore, the Democratic leaders play down the importance of demanding honest information or holding government officials accountable. The Democrats tend to see these goals as luxuries to be abandoned when they threaten the political comity supposedly needed for the creation of new government programs."