FaceBook censorship--- so much for democracy and our right to participate in the political process

 FaceBook has begun blocking 90% of my posts and comments that mention anything in opposition to the Democratic Party and Barack Obama. They even prohibit me from posting things like this as "Notes."

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Scott, I see the Democratic Party from a different viewpoint. I work with people in the Democratic Party around issues of mutual concern. However, there are very few elected DFL state legislators, no federal, who can be worked with. The majority of the DFL state legislators are bucking even the very mild and liberal reforms articulated by Mark Dayton. Most DFL politicians were campaigning in opposition to Dayton's "tax-the-rich" before he was even elected when they should have been riding his coat-tails supporting this kind of left agenda; it's what Minnesota workers want. Had they done this we would have DFL majorities in the House and Senate. But, then again, Dayton is too weak to fight for his own views and agenda--- demonstrated by his department appointments.

Another example is the excellent "Peace Budget" resolution put together by Representative Bill Hilty and Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer. What is being done with this? While it clearly articulates Mark Dayton's own views as he articulated in his Inaugural Speech and again in his State-of-the-State  Speech he has not mentioned this important resolution:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150216481130086

I could cite many other issues that are so basic to solving the problems of working people, women and the nationally and racially oppressed and young people where the MNDFL either does nothing or takes the wrong positions.

A case in point is the wild rice/pollution issue. Here we have DFL'er Tom Bakk, the minority leader in the MN Senate taking the position that MORE pollution should be tolerated that will kill the wild rice. The DFL has just blocked out the voices of this legislation's opponents.

The DFL has earned the right to be challenged. Here we are with a myriad of social and economic problems and the DFL couldn't adequately respond to the concerns and needs of working people with a platform to solve the problems and if that isn't bad enough they move in mass to the right towards the business interests.

I won't vote for Obama; I voted for one Democrat in the 2010 Election--- Mark Dayton. I only voted for him because he came begging for my support and we made a deal. We kept up our part of the deal; Dayton has reneged on his part.

I tell people if the Democrats are tending to your needs and concerns then you should stick with them. Why vote against what works for you, right? Well, why should those of us for whom the Democrats are not only not giving us their ear, they join with business interests in hurting us continue voting for them? Kind of like slitting one's own throat.

It makes no sense to continue supporting party that runs over 200 candidates for state and federal offices and out of this number there are at most four or five that can be relied on to defend the interests of working people.

The MN DFL has returned full circle to its old corrupt roots--- unfortunately big-business serving bigots like Leroy Stumpf are the rule rather than the exception in today's DFL.

The DFL leadership controlled by big-business and the AIPAC lobby wouldn't even tolerate discussing resolutions on Affirmative Action or divesting from Israel.

We need a new party built around the principles and a similar platform like the original Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party.

To think that it is possible for working people to even have a voice let alone any role in the decision-making process in the MNDFL is very naive... but, isn't this the way Hubert H. Humphrey intended it to be?

And Chris; the working class hasn't exhausted electoral participation and struggle and probably never will. The proof in this is the first thing people do when they have problem is go to their elected officials--- the thing to learn is that in order to get a hearing we need to have working people in these positions.

In my opinion one of the best things workers still in the streets could do is run full slates of candidates behind a common platform for every single office on an alternative third party ticket while continuing the demonstrations in the streets.

I can understand organized calls not to vote for Democrats to punish them; but not abstaining from participating in the electoral process. Where there has been this kind of involvement working people have made considerable progress.