PDA DECEIVES PUBLIC ABOUT
HEALTH CARE
by Gary F.
June 28, 2007
On June 26, 2007,
another PDA-backed candidate went down in flames with 3% of the
vote. Virtually none of the liberals who were elected to Congress
in 2006 were backed by PDA. In 2006, PDA didn't even endorse the
liberal
Congressman who founded the organization, claiming that, because of
technical difficulties, it couldn't endorse in that district.
Some time back, PDA put out the word that war may be peace.
Now, PDA is working to defeat the cause of single-payer, not-for-profit
universal health care. What was once a promising organization is going
down in controversy and heartbreak for its members.
Were the huge losses suffered by PDA caused by its failure to back
liberal leaders and causes with more than lip service? Or was the
organization so disorganized it just lost its way? What caused it
to subtly do more to help the corporate agenda than the purpose
statement it used to gain supporters?
As this article is being written, PDA plans to distribute tens of
thousands misleading flyers nationwide that will work to lessen the
likelihood of not-for-profit health care ever coming about. The
PDA flyers,
which appear to support the cause, seek to cloud the issue of who is
and who isn't behind the kind of health care system Michael Moore has
endorsed. The purpose of PDA's deception is to make it easier for
a corporate candidate who supports for-profit health care be elected
and end any chance of the people getting the kind of health care system
they want. In PDA's apparent goal of continuing the
for-profit system and confusing the public, it has its work cut out for
it. Michael Moore's move Sicko is very popular and viewers
aren't likely to fall for PDA's flyer which fails to even mention the
name of the person in Congress who has done the most work to get
Moore's plan into law. Mentioning the co-author of HR 676 might
inform audiences of who is the only Presidential candidate to support
not-for-profit health care. Fortunately for liberals, Fox News
has mentioned the truth.
It would be nice to say that PDA's
actions are a mistake. I have seen a chain of PDA emails
establishing that it is no mistake. The deception is
intentional. It appears from the emails that members of the
John Edwards campaign are behind PDA's deception on the health care
issue. John Edwards is adamantly opposed to the kind of health
care
Moore calls for in Sicko. By misstating the accepted name
of the health care bill, PDA is intentionally depriving the public of
information on who is willing to help them on this matter.
Barbara Becnel and others have
warned the people that PDA is not on the side of the people. In
2006, PDA worked to marginalize liberal candidates running for office
in states like California. It refused to endorse the most liberal
candidates running in the various areas. It sat uninterested,
while obvious election fraud stole a seat from a popular liberal
Congresswoman in Georgia. Members and former members are blaming
PDA for Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory in 2006. In
marginalizing liberal candidates, PDA has marginalized itself. In 2006,
most endorsed PDA candidates went down in flames. The most
liberal members of Congress were never endorsed by
PDA. PDA rewards Representatives who take
action in support of PDA's pretended goals by stabbing those
Representatives in the back and working to undercut them at every
opportunity.
What does this mean to the youth
community? It means that an organization which has done
absolutely nothing for us is showing its true colors. PDA did
nothing for youth free speech rights. It did nothing to help
students who marched in the immigration marches. It did nothing
to help us get voting rights. The leadership silently let over
400 Americans die without a vote in any Presidential election. It
did nothing to help us get tuition rates cut.
It did nothing to allow us freedom of education. In short, PDA
has done absolutely nothing for much of anyone but the corporate hacks
who are backing it.
At one time, PDA
was an organization that
had a lot of promise. Dennis Kucinich saw the need for a
progressive
organization to take back the Democratic Party for the people.
After
seeing the organization founded, Kucinich let it go so that it could be
independent. This is what the founders of the United States also
did.
They gave America a good start two hundred and 18 years ago.
They
guided the US while it was young. Their work made it a land
of opportunity.
Other great leaders got involved and the US continued to grow and get
better. Then something happened. The great leaders either
died or
stood back. The US got a new kind of leadership from a group of
extremists who didn't care about the people. The result was wars,
poverty and inequality. PDA was let go sooner than it should have
been. There are some good people left somewhere at the
helm. Unfortunately, it appears that most of those exercising
power at PDA are people who support the corporate agenda over the
people's
agenda. The good people are refusing to rein in the corporate
robots
who are sabotaging what was once a promising organization. The
corporate advocates are the ones controlling what PDA does and
supports. The insurance companies may love the subtle support
they are getting from PDA. Betrayed liberals are angry.
This explains why PDA has done nothing to end the death penalty,
nothing to end human rights abuses against young Americans, and nothing
to end other civil rights abuses. It also explains why it won't
respect members of Congress who do what the organization pretends to
want and why it is working to undercut universal health care in
America. In boxing terms, it's called taking a dive. PDA's
final dive in the matter of not-for-profit health care may cost it the
illusion that it is a progressive organization.
These days, the corporate media is giving more coverage to PDA's causes
and to the leaders who back those causes than PDA is giving. PDA
is promoting the interests of the corporate media above PDA's own
causes and their supporters. To PDA liberals, it makes
little difference whether you listen to the corporate news or
PDA. Both are only covering the portions of the news they want to
cover and the reader or audience is left with only a piece of the
picture. That's the insane world of deception politics. This
world should have a sign that reads, "Warning. Entering will
result in complete moral and mental breakdown."
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