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I know some out there feel I am little more than a cheerleader for the Democratic Party. I think this just shows that they aren't paying close enough attention to what I write over all...but they are right that, fighting against a Republican Party that has become the worst threat to American democracy since the Civil War, I find myself very focused on supporting Democrats at almost every turn. The Democrats are currently all that stand between us and a one-party, right wing theocracy that would make the founding fathers furious.

Under Democratic leadership our basic democracy is not threatened and I don't feel that a budding theocracic dictatorship is at hand. Under Republicans today, that is exactly what I feel. So, given the choice, I cheer the party that best reflects my beliefs, my values and fights against theocratic dictatorship that Bush is foisting on us. And by and large, the vasy majority of Democratic politicians I have personally known are a pretty good bunch.

Doesn't mean I support all Democrats. My readers at Culture Kitchen don't see one side of my blogging that my NYC readers of Daily Gotham do see. I spend a great deal of time battling corrupt and anti-democracy Democrats right in my own community of Brooklyn and I get a lot of shit for it. I have my own infamy in Brooklyn as a rabble rouser AGAINST the mainstream Democrats and, in general, for a loose and inefficient group of "reform" and "progressive Democrats." I cut my blogging teeth on fighting WITHIN the Democratic Party and it is because of the response I got that Liza asked me to be managing editor at Culture Kitchen. But I keep it in perspective. Democratic politicians are, in my personal experience, generally (not always) good and Republican politicians are, in my personal experience, often (not always) a pretty sleazy, greedy bunch.