I have never seen us so vitriolic and hostile towards one another as I have during this primary process. EVERYONE has become polarized. It's not just Kos or MyDD or TPM or DU. It is the whole so-called f*cking progressive establishment.

I have NEVER seen the wholesale adoption of tactics that we had previously come to abhor, the quoting of right-wing lunacy like gospel to score a cheap political point. I believe in karma and it will catch up with the relevant people eventually. One thing I have to say is, at the very least, it has pointed out who really wants an open government that is representative of the people and who wants to win for the sake of winning; who wants to establish a true progressive majority and who puts their personal (or perhaps professional goals) first.

I never thought I'd see the day when both MoveOn and Howard Dean and Keith Olbermann and Randi Rhodes and Stephanie Miller and Rachel Maddow were all collectively thrown under the bus. Kos, who brought together a collection of disaffected progressives and organized the netroots into a powerful coalition that GOT MORE PROGRESSIVES ELECTED TO CONGRESS is now a hack. Howard Dean who also GOT MORE PROGRESSIVES ELECTED TO CONGRESS is now a hack. And Barack HUSSEIN Obama, who inspired those like myself who were not thrilled with a Kerry nomination at the convention, is now an arrogant aristocrat who had everything handed to him on a silver platter. Who knew Obama was born with a silver spoon in his mouth?

This primary process is a true test in more ways than one. We aren't just selecting a Democratic nominee. We are deciding the future direction of the party. Are we going to campaign in all 50-states or are we going to focus on the "significant" ones? Are we going to support and help elect progressive candidates down ticket for Congressional and local offices or are we going to hand a potential Democratic President another hamstrung House and Senate that lacks a mandate to implement a progressive agenda? Do we decide that given this extraordinary moment in American history where we are facing economic disaster, stuck waging an illegal occupation no one wants, to change our direction and look towards the future? Or do we look towards the past and try to make do with what worked a decade ago? Are we going to bring more citizens into the political process and ask them to participate in forming the type of government that is responsive to their needs? Or will we tell the hopeful masses that the answers reside with whoever our leader is, so just relax... the people's input is not requested nor required.

This is the moment we've been waiting for. The secrecy, the blatant violation of our Constitution, the stain of blood on the hands of those who have betrayed all the noble and good things this nation stood for... it's all coming to a head. Our nervous elected officials sense this. We can hold the party together and forge a new pathway or we can go back to the same-old and shatter the party into pieces.