Choose Your Own Adventure (and Tell It to Howard Dean)

I was on the DNC's web site today, and the home page has a message from new chair Howard Dean. He asked, "What can we do together to make the Democratic Party a force for change where you live?'

Take a minute and tell him what kind of Democratic Party you want. The right-wingers of the party are using the losses in the election as a reason to push a more conservative agenda for Dems. In particular, there's momentum toward moving away from a pro-choice platform. (See this article in The New York Times today for a good article about the response of Emily's List, NARAL, etc.) Don't like it? Not the Democratic Party you want? Tell Dean.

Anyway, here's my two cents:

Support and cultivate progressive candidates, particularly women and people of color. Call out the Bush administration for its unethical behavior, for its lying, for its double-talk. Be bold. Be unafraid. Speak out against the Constitutional atrocities being committed by this administration. Speak out against the extraordinary disregard for civil liberties. Do something about the rampant poverty and death of our cities. Stop discriminating against same-sex couples and their children and start supporting them. Speak out against hate. Speak out against the war. FIX HEALTH CARE! Do something so that ALL working people are paid a fair, living wage. Build a broad, tent-of-a-party that we can all work under. EMBRACE CHANGE.

Dr. Dean, I'm counting on you. Please don't let me down.