The first Democrat controlled congress in many years met at the beginning of January 2007 and this small group appeared in front of Mike Thompson’s local office Wednesday, January 3rd to urge them to do what they were elected to do rather than what their corporate benefactors mandate. While the vocal group at Thompson’s office was small they surely represent the stated feelings of a large majority of Americans as expressed in many venues including the November elections.
This action was part of a broader action that saw such demonstrations across the country and in anticipation of a march on Washington January 27th designed to remind the representatives that the election was not an empty exercise and that their jobs should depend on them doing their jobs.
With talk of increasing troop strength in Iraq rather than a rapid withdrawal and, so far, little talk of addressing the massive corruption in our government’s leadership, the two most often mentioned reasons voters said they voted democratic in the last election, these demonstrations hold some promise of an establishment of democracy in the USA though many doubt that anything will accomplish that.