From a recent post on P!:

....As a vehicle for meaningful progressive change, the Democratic Party as we once knew it (or plausibly hoped it might be) is kaput. Even as a defense mechanism against the worst excesses of the right, the Party's continued utility is highly questionable--as the fecklessness of congressional Democrats in the face of the Bush-GOP junta demonstrates. At best, the dwindling number of serious liberals remaining among the Party's growing cast of surrender monkeys can create some minor friction in the path of the rightward-moving juggernaut. Phil Ochs was right: if there's any hope for America, it lies in revolution. Not necessarily a revolution of the type associated with Che Guevera, but a revolution nonetheless--in the sense of a toppling of despotism and a fundamental transformation of the social order. And, if there's any hope for a revolution in American, the revolutionary movement it must speak to--and give voice to--those who don't necessarily think of themselves as revolutionaries, but whose lives, and ways of life, are being devastated by prevailing American politics as embodied by both major parties.