Glen Greenwald’s acount from February of the Democrats’ dubious support of the public option during healthcare reform elucidates the reasons why I left the Democrats and joined the Green Party. Here he goes for the jugular, indicting the party’s pattern of “support” for progressive policy measures:

This is what the Democratic Party does; it’s who they are.  They’re willing to feign support for anything their voters want just as long as there’s no chance that they can pass it.  They won control of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections by pretending they wanted to compel an end to the Iraq War and Bush surveillance and interrogation abuses because they knew they would not actually do so; and indeed, once they were given the majority, the Democratic-controlled Congress continued to fund the war without conditions, to legalize Bush’s eavesdropping program, and to do nothing to stop Bush’s habeas and interrogation abuses (“Gosh, what can we do?  We just don’t have 60 votes).

Greenwald exposes Democratic posturing at its most repugnant: in the extension of win-less wars and the disavowal of rule of law, civil liberties, and human rights of American citizens and foreign nationals in detention.