I think several new parties will be coming forward in this country very soon; most likely the Tea Baggers will have a party. Most important though is that we build a party that reflects the kind of coalition it is going to take the American people to win peace, real health care reform, jobs and create a higher standard of living for working people--- especially through universal social programs while defending the good social programs we already have like Social Security and public education.
We need a new party that will take in liberals, progressives and the left.
Something like the Canadians have with the New Democratic Party but built on the foundation of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party which was destroyed by corporate and governmental repression at a time it was about to go national.
Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO and Ben Jealous of the NAACP missed the opportunity of a lifetime in calling for the formation of such a party in Washington at the One Nation Working Together Demonstration--- judging from the speeches I heard someone with the politics and popularity of Harry Belafonte is going to have to run at the head of such a ticket.
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