November 2004

Welcome the Blue Party

As a reaction to the recent, horrible presidential election, we here at Evil Robots decided to step it up at notch and get even more up in America's face about what it's doing wrong. We've been doing this for a while, but now we're not holding back. Now we're going after Democrats, too.

While the entire staff of this publication may not be Democrats, the editors are. Severely. However, we've become increasingly frustrated by our own party over the years. We have huge respect for Bill Clinton, but his amazingly successful "triangulation" strategy has left the party spinning instead of actually showing leadership and creating smart policy. This is why we at Evil Robots have formed what we are calling The Blue Party.

The Blue Party stands for the progressive ideals that lead this nation from depression to global leadership in the last century. These values were once synonomous with the Democratic Party, and even within certain circles of the Republican Party. This is no longer the case. The Republican Party has turned into a right wing propagandist party while the Democratic Party has lost its nerve and is trying to win by imitating Republicans.

We are here to end this, and bring the Democratic Party back towards it's progressive ideals. While it may not be possible to have a third party in American Politics, at this point we'd settle for there being two.

Republicans are going to ruin this great country. And we don't think the pussies ruing the Democratic Party right now can stop them. Get out of the way, Bob Shrum.

In the coming months we will be further flushing out these progressive ideals which, we believe, are the notions that founded America as a great nation. We want to see candidates who stand up for what they believe in and run strong leaders, not the lesser of two evils. We want to see candidates who run on some of the following ideas:

• Aggressively oppose non-Democratic religo-fascist governments around the world - and here at home
• Promote the creation of a new tax code without corporate entitlement programs and an attempt to re-instill the strong limitations of corporations that the Founding Fathers felt necessary
• Preserve the Federal Inheritance Tax and stop the shift to taxing earned income over unearned and inherited wealth currently underway
• Relieve Government from the burden of overseeing marriage other than printing the cirtificate.
• Granting the right of civil unions to Every American Couple
• Continuting the fight for an equitable workplace
• Tort reform MUST include jury decisions for all and NEVER limit the right of an American to bring suit and any party that has wronged him, even the government itself
• Statehood (or independence) for Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico
• Giving Voting Rights Back to All Americans
• Promote a equitable and economical health care system
• Working towards a sustainable economy and never forcing an unfair economic burden onto other generations
• Fiscal responsibility
• Real environmental stewardship
• Fair immigration policy
• Reform corrections and crime prevention

We believe in all of these things, and we feel that core of the rank-and-file Democrat does too. More importantly, we feel that these are fundamental American values that a great many millions of Americans hold dear too.

Finally, and most importantly, we believe in a sincere government that will always chose actual governance and real leadership over the bogus leadership of politicizing every possible issue with an eye towards maintaining power. This, in our minds, is the most incredibly shameful act of the Bush Administration.

The Blue Party stands for real leadership and the progressive values made so abundantly clear by the US Constitution.