Moderate is WAY right of center. So do we just accept that we live in a right-wing country and work for the least radical right wing government we can get?

Let's be clear about how things are at the moment.

NEO-CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN:

* No Civil Liberties
* Massive Unending War
* Theocracy
* Unchecked Capitalism with No Concern For Labor Or Human Rights
* No Recourse to Abortion Except in Cases of Certain Death
* Anti-Gay Sentiments Must Be Fomented
* Total Control of Media

DLC DEMOCRAT:

* Will Pass the PATRIOT Act, But With Less Joy.
* A Little Bit Less Massive Unending War
* Make America a Faith-Based Nation, But In A Good Way
* A Few Checks on Labor Wrongs, But No Challenges to Most Abuses
* Okay with Creating Terrible Burdens On Certain Pregnant Women (Teens, Country Dwellers, Women Carrying Dying and Severly Deformed Fetuses)
* For the Unequal But "Humane" Treatment of Gays (At Best)
* Begging the Media to Be Nice

Sometimes I feel like my choices are between Pure Evil and Weak and Insincere. I promise you, Weak and Insincere will not prevail in the face of Pure Evil.

We need a resistance party. The damn moderates can hold their nose for once and pull the lever.

(All of this pretends that we actually have fair elections still, by the way.)