Justice Scalia today said:
“The Voting Rights Act is
Perpetuation of Racial Entitlement”
Wow.
Although we’re shocked . . . we shouldn't be surprised: Their party openly coddles racists and have taken
racial politicking to new highs or lows, depending on which end you are.
The thing is Registered
Democrats and Liberals OUTNUMBER the racists and xenophobes on the Right . . .
but still we have Republicans ‘winning’ and then installing justices like this
miscreant on the bench.
Republicans have been winning
despite our superior numbers and have been destroying the lives of constituents
at the state level too . . .
Now I could wax all nice and
intellectual-sounding about this, with a ‘tempered, controlled rage’ at how yet
again “These damned Conservatives . . .!” are ‘up to their old tricks!’
BORING and INCONSEQUENTIAL!
I've got to light-into my fellow
Liberals for a second because . . .
We’re full of SHIT!
Seriously we need a kick in the
ASS!!!
Listen we need to put the myriad of liberal fulminations 'on a leash' for the good of the country at large :
Fuck the Public Option
Fuck the Drone shit
Fuck chafing at Rahm Emanuel
for calling you ‘retarded’
Fuck chafing at Barrack Obama
'not using clear strong language in defense of a certain trio of sacred cows'.
And FUCK wanting all this
‘pious’, pure, ‘transparent to all (including our adversaries)’ angle of attack
when it comes to the political battling we MUST do!
WE HAVE BEEN STEADILY LOSING
THE 'IDEA’ OF THIS COUNTRY RIGHT ON OUR WATCH!
The Conservatives have dealt
yet another blow TODAY against the very essence of what this country is
about: The voting rights act may be
seriously weakened.
For fucks sakes if we don't
protect the gains we've got over the 20th century we won't have a viable
country to even fight about!!
FUCK the ‘Right to Politically
Abstain’!!!
Fuck staying home because
you're mad at the President or your Congressman/Senator!!
As Liberals WE CANNOT AFFORD
THAT SHIT ANYMORE for the long term foreseeable future!
Who the fuck does that!? Are we that stupid?
We are the only ideological
group in the world that STAY HOME to supposedly 'show our displeasure'.
That's bullshit and that needs
to stop like yesterday.
We keep staying home in
midterms and then bitch and complain when the fucking Elephants act like the
‘societal scorpions’ they are and ‘sting’ the shit out of the country!?
But we can't see that: We have folks that did NOT vote last couple
of elections due to NDAA or the drone issue or the public option or Obama's
‘less-than strident liberal rhetoric’ . . .
We have folks trying to take
out a sitting Senator or Congressman over ONE issue . . . weakening them enough
for the GOP to take the seat.
We need to UNIFY for the Big
Picture and NEVER let our ‘subsidiary actions’ imperil that, but if it might or
does quash it!
"We have our
principles!"
Fuck your principles.
What will you eat, oh esteemed
Vegetarian, when you’ve been shipwrecked, the greenery is questionable or
scarce and all that’s there is steamed fish or wild boar?
Will you starve yourself to
death!?
THAT IS WHERE WE ARE NOW,
DAMNIT!!!
Wake UP!!
We want to act like we're this
giant net that is actually keeping the country afloat by our principled stances
and our own brand of activism(no matter how unappealing and benign our
methodology is when it comes to moving the public), we fall in love with the
‘struggle’ and almost forget about the long term more viable picture.
We think we’re kicking shit big
time when what we really have is this 'proud' strainer that has no clue what it
really is and think that the few shells and little pebbles that are still in
our 'maw' are the important stuff . . .
Wrong: Idea of this country is
all that 'sand' that has almost totally drained out onto the floor!
Wake UP!!!
Ok I've gotten the nascent
angst out of my system. It is time for
some hard truths.
First up: I’m SICK and TIRED of
the Liberal mouthpieces, opining with rapid, pragmatism-challenged, cubby-holed
vapidity about Obama not living up to his ‘liberal fanfare’. The man NEVER was a, quote, ‘Liberal’, a la a
Dennis Kucinich. He has always sold
himself as a centrist, a pragmatist who wants to take the ‘best ideas of both
parties and strike a happy medium. You
will NOT get a Bernie Sanders for a Presidential candidate that has an actual
chance at winning that prize.
You are going to get only more
Barack Obama's, more President Clintons - Centrists willing to compromise and
assuage the anxieties of the Reagan Democrats that have actually decided
presidential elections for decades now.
They ‘pacify’ them sufficiently
so they may actually help them ‘DESPITE themselves’!
Accept it!
And you want to mention
Hillary?
Dream on!
She'll 'moderate herself big
time' if she decides to run and actually wants to win.
You will be stuck, for the most
part with a mix of bad (corporate-friendly) and good (lukewarm defender of
labor).
Get used to it.
Why should you ‘settle’? Because our Democratic forebears capitulated
to the corporatocracy so that they’d stop being outspent in campaigns.
That allowed Reagan and the
Republicans in the 80’s to do a damned good job, virtually unopposed, thus
tacitly blessed by Democrats, of hegemonizing this precious fount of voters in
the middle of the country.
This ‘programming’ has worked
so well, many have made voting Republican an inextricable part of their
culture(s)!
Like I said, blame our
democratic forebears who decided to go corporate instead of sticking with labor
and others 'who brung 'em'.
Chuck Schumer, Rendell, Cory
Booker, Christopher Dodd are functioning like, or are corporate Democrats.
Search your feelings 'Paduans'
Why have Democrats, time and
time again, on some emotionally-vituperative issue, always seem to ride at a
full gallop 'hollering and whooping' it up, bringing us along with them to the
trough, but when the time comes to make it ‘real’ . . . that ‘horse never
drinks deeply' enough?
We've neutered our party by the
choices of our forebears AND by our disgusting, short-sighted, and myopic
political practices. We have a very
heavy lift.
Democratic disunity and
political abstinence (stay home protests) allow conservative evil all across
this country.
Search your feelings 'Paduans'
. . . and consider the following facts and questions:
We outnumber them on the voter
rolls but yet they dominate most of the governorships and state legislatures
all across this country even in NY!
Why are they winning?
Why are they able to do such
damage to the country?
We're the Opposition and we're
supposed to stop them: Why haven't or can't we?
Why are we always 'reacting' to
their bullshit? Why aren't they
'reacting' to us?
We have all the ideas that most
of the public agrees with . . . WHY ARE WE ALWAYS ON DEFENSE!?
That is what I'm saying!
Republicans used to say for
DECADES:
“Young People, minorities,
young women, naturalized immigrants, poor people . . . or ANY ONE of our
so-called Base Groups can't be counted on the show up.”
“They can't be relied on.”
“They're skittish and easily
'frustrated'/distracted from exorcising their political rights with efficacy,
useful timing and in sufficient numbers to overwhelm any 'systemic attrition'
they may encounter.”
And guess what?
They've been RIGHT!
We moved that needle the
closest in decades to a 50% eligible voter participation (which is still an
appalling statistic when compared to other developed nations) in 2008 and 2012
. . . but I fear it won't last in 2016 or even 2014.
It may not happen for a
combination of the reasons Republicans have correctly deduced about our
maddeningly-persistent, uniquely-liberal quality of a political Cat Herd, but
it may falter due to the fact that we may not have a charismatic candidate like
Barack Obama as our standard bearer to whip our emotions into frothy batter,
and stir us to grassroots action.
We'll STILL have to organize like
we did in 2008 and 2012 . . . but not because of passion . . . or emotional
'high'.
It will be, must be, because of
necessity, worry about ‘things we hold dear’, an intellectual dovetailing
around a common philosophical dream for the country, and a working, easily
regurgitated list of specific measures and laws we need to protect, or
strengthen.
It’s not 'Sexy' . . . and
neither will any of the potential candidates at this juncture be.
It doesn't lend itself to the
easily-lobbed sound bite.
We need to embrace some good,
old-fashioned civic duty, and participate at unheard-of historical levels . . .
if we want to undo the damage the conservative has done to the country's
economy, our collective intellectual/educational exportable product, and the
philosophy/psychology of how we understand ‘What our Obligations are To Each
Other’ - 'Socialism' should be elevated and exorcised as a word/concept to be
feared, into to One that is desired and strived towards, where and when it matters - Social Safety Net, Economic
Inequality, the Reclamation of the Commons, the punishment of the
magnates(Robber Barons’ 2.0) who flout ethical standards and our laws.
But that takes a sustained,
smart and eager movement to reverse the effects.
Do we have that within us
Liberals?
Can we GET PAST the ‘minutia’
of ‘strict rhetorical content’, take off the blinders when it comes to real
ideas for national insurance programs solvency, quit being whiny, ADHD,
‘Johhny-Come-Too-Lately’s when it comes to politics and policies . . . and
focus on saving the country for the long haul?
Can you do it?
I hope you can . . . because I
have.
This is bigger than me, and we
need to stay the course consistently for the next Eight to Ten Presidential
elections if we’re to enact the substantive change we say we want.
Listen: I’m hard on my fellow
liberals because I sincerely believe we are the best suited in ideas and
intellectual curiosity to usher-in this country’s best days ever . . . but we
aren’t being smart about it, we’re being played and lead around by Republicans
if you think about it.
Our dysfunction, myopia, piety,
naïveté, and disunity allow the POISON of the GOP to thrive!
We NEED to address this in a
pragmatic, politically offensive, practical way!!
Unfortunately the emotional
need for ‘clear-throated bellowing’ of our values does NOT lend itself to
political fortune, which you NEED to make change.
We allowed the public to get
too hegemonized so now we have to slowly 'reprogram' it.
Sorry for the unfortunate,
robotic choice of words but hegemony IS 'programming'.
We have a proud legacy of
impressive world-renowned laws we’ve passed and we’ve shepherded this country
into the modern era . . .
We have a heavy lift to turn those
past successes into that of the 21st century.
So if you're as upset over the
Scalia comments, like I was, start paying attention and VOTE ALWAYS . . . among
other things.
They can’t seem to help
themselves with ‘What They Do’ . . . even if they go down with the calamity
they cause . . . and we’re the Frog that has been carrying Them and the country
over the River, ‘undersung’ for decades . . . but we keep getting ‘stung’.
I think it’s time we stop being
envenomed and our unity ‘dissolved’, our superior vision ‘blurred’ by these
folks . . .
We’re supposed to be better
than that.
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