The Rise of Anti-democratic Democrats

The Democratic Party is influenced by many factors and factions, but at it's core, it's structure is organized as a representative democracy which grows from the grassroots of America.  It begins at local Precincts where you go vote. Then it grows upward through County Parties, State Parties, to a National Democratic Party.

Officers at each level are elected. To participate, all you have to do is register to vote as a Democrat with your local Board of Elections. You don't sign up with the Party. You don't pay dues. You don't ever have to renew your Membership for the rest of your life, unless you move out of your Precinct. You just walk into a meeting.

That's how the Party works. But what about the external Factions which also call themselves "Democrats"?

During the 8-year Bush Administration, left-leaning Democrats who were once called Liberals (until Republicans turned that word into a slur), began calling themselves "Progressives."  Origin of the term goes back much further than that, and for half a century I've been part of this fringe progressive group all my adult life. But for purposes of this Article, I'm looking at the current Progressive "movement" as seen as an organization which calls itself Progressive Democrats of America (PDA).

PDA is an astroturf organization. It claims to represent Democrats, and pretends to have a grassroots organization which does not exist.  If you go to the PDA website, you discover they represent only themselves, and that their numbers total -- at most -- a few hundred people, even including their Board Members.

So far as I can tell, no Officer in PDA is elected to any position. PDA claims to have "Chapters" in all States, but 10 States have only one person listed, and 15 have none. To become a State Rep, you just volunteer. No one in your State elects you. 

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My focus for 3 years has been on Progressives in my native state of North Carolina. I have several other Articles posted on OpEdNews about Progressives in NC, written about events as they have occurred. Most recent is here. "She's a Whack Job!" said the sociopaths.

Looking at names on the PDA Website who claim to represent NC, we find no one who was elected by the NC Democratic Party to represent the Party in PDA.  No one is authorized by anyone in NC to speak for NC about anything. These "representatives" are self-selected, not elected by anyone in NC.

PDA claims it has a State Caucus in NC.  How that relationship occurred is not known.  But five years ago, a fledgling group of "progressives" calling itself Greendogs formed in NC. I was a Charter Member, donating $99, not 100% sure this was a good idea. Turns out, it never was.

During Election 2004, Greendogs spent its entire time and energy legally converting into a private membership corporation, known as Progressive Democrats of North Carolina, Inc.  Endless hours were spent -- not campaigning for Democratic candidates -- but in writing and re-writing By-laws.  What they cobbled together is the most Anti-Democratic organization that ever claimed to be part of the NC Democratic Party.

Because, that's what they did. They wrote that their purpose was to infiltrate the Democratic Party, and to convert the Party to service PDNC goals. Early on, PDNC became affiliated with PDA.  It may have actually been started by PDA, for all anyone can tell from the outside.  Because -- unlike the Democratic Party where there is total transparency for all Members -- PDA and PDNC are private organizations, which are not required to share whatever they choose not to share. 

To vote at a PDNC meeting, you must first pay a membership fee. A poll tax by any other name is still anti-democratic.  If some inside PDNC disagree with you, they can have you expelled. In the Democratic Party, no one may be expelled for any reason by anyone.  

You have an absolute right in the Democratic Party to hold and espouse any views you choose. In the private membership corporation PDNC, you must sign an oath that confirms that you espouse whatever the Powers-that-be in PDNC have decided you should believe. Both PDNC, and it's parent PDA, are totally Anti-democratic organizations.  They are, in fact, versions of corporate fascism.

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In Jan 2005, PDNC figured out how to elect one of its own as Chair of the NC Democratic Party. It was a bloodless coup. Millions of ordinary NC Democrats never realized what hit them. After this Chair was elected, PDNC Members started showing up at Executive Committee Meetings as if they were an official Auxiliary of the State Party. The State Party does not allow Auxiliaries to form around ideological issues. Auxiliaries may be organized ONLY around age, gender or race. PDNC is an illegal alien, sanctioned only by the State Chair. 

PDNC, with full cooperation and approval of the Chair -- but NOT from the Party -- began attaching Progressive Groups to County Parties across the State. The State Chair, using Party funds, traveled to County Parties searching for likely candidates for a Progressive invasion. More than a dozen Progressive Groups sprouted up inside the Party, with NO approval of the Party. EVERY one was illegitimately formed inside a County Party.

Members of these Progressive Units became the body guards and hit men for the Chair, whenever anyone dared to step out of line and criticize anything he chose to do. One of them in Wake County, home of the State Capitol and Party Headquarters in Raleigh, conceals his blog identity behind this name: Progressive Pittbull. This was one of his posts: I'm figuratively weilding a .50 caliber sniper rifle - and I hit what I aim at.

At the State Executive Committee meeting of over 600 NC Democrats statewide on Jan 31st, a Progressive Attack Unit now known as the Witches of Wake, publicly lynched a Candidate for Secretary of the Party. Over the years, the Chair's Progressives have attempted to destroy opposition to the Chair by having Internet Service and Face Books cancelled, bloggers kicked off Websites, and circulating anonymous lies.  Progressives in NC, empowered under Lawyer and former Chair Jerry Meek, became some of the nastiest people you would ever want to know. These are the folks who believe God gave them the right to reform the NC Democratic Party in their own image.

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At the SEC Meeting in Jan, Progressives failed to have their endorsed Candidate elected as Chair, when the newly elected Governor, Beverly Perdue, stepped in to back another, though unknown, Candidate.  New Chair David Young operates a travel agency in Asheville, far away from the Center of Intrigue in Raleigh. Jerry married a State Rep, and just walked away, leaving all the wreckage he caused for 4 years to be dealt with by his Successor.

After the Jan SEC Meeting, Progressives invaded Precincts, as they had been advised to do in their PDNC Newsletters. Earlier this month, they infected County Party Conventions, electing their own as Officers at the County and SEC levels.

At this point in time, there is a full infestation of Progressives at every level of the Party, in some few of NC's 100 Counties. None of these Progressive Groups are permitted to be any part of the Party under a massive NCDP Plan of Organization, which has guided the Party for decades. They gnawed their way into the Party as parasites, and no one knows how to get rid of them, tho many see the expanding damage they cause. The biggest problem is that they ignore and violate the rules everyone agreed to play by. Instead, they invent whatever rules suit their goals as they go along. Here's a quoted section from a recent [NCDP-on-Trial] Newsletter #107, which is read by thousands across NC:

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