(1) loyalty is a two-way street

REASONS WHY I WILL NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA (and you shouldn't, either) #1

a coalition requires give and take that works both ways.

I am not an ATM machine. If I give something, I want something back.

But Obama and Donna Brazile seem proud to have thrown the so-called "old coalition" out of the party.

So why would I - or anyone else from that old coalition - vote for him?

I used to wonder why Democrats are too dumb or lazy to figure out how to win elections. Eventually I realized - I was the dumb lazy one. They have known perfectly well how to win all along. They just don't want to.

Many, many articles have been written on what it would take to get the working class to support a Democratic President. The articles are full of accurate and useful information*. The Democratic party just doesn't care.

Now we see why - they don't want us. They want to attract Republicans instead, and permanently change the demographic makeup in ways that will enhance Howard Dean's and Donna Brazile's personal ambitions.

The Democratic party has stopped standing up for women. It sometimes talks about equality - but it doesn't put values into action, and hasn't for years. Decades even.

The Democratic party has stopped standing up for gays, if it ever really did. It has stopped standing up for Latinos. It has stopped standing up for its people. It still talks about people as if it were all about standing up for minorities, but the actions just aren't there.

And, even though right now it is making a lot of demands on behalf of the black community, ordinary black people aren't going to see anything to show for it. The "leaders" are just spending other peoples' political capital, and blacks are going to end up as burned as the rest of us or worse. Just wait & see.

The entire midwest has been thrown out, and the majority of the U.S.A. earns too little to be interesting to the Democrats now - like a bank that figured out small-deposit loans are more trouble than they're worth, the fees now outweigh the interest.

The Democratic party has not opposed the Republican dream of completely replacing the old-fashioned "reward that work ethic" social contract with a new ethic - one that completely values risk over work, one that defines productivity (and one's worth to society) solely in terms of how much capital you own/put into the economy.

And, of course, on the issues, Democrats are now eager to prove themselves Republicans, or at least willing to appease.
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* With Hillary Clinton outspent (and actively opposed by both the media and her own party, plus the rules openly rigged against her) she still managed to tie Obama, just by following the obvious strategy of giving voters a reason to vote for her.