RE: Impeach Obama
November 15, 2014 at 6:06 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2014 at 6:09 pm by Ryantology.)
Republicans wasted tons of government time and treasure just to attempt to take down a president by whatever means necessary. They spend tons more of it now trying to do the same thing. And yet, we're supposed to believe that the fiscal future of the nation rests on depriving the underprivileged of any basic necessity their slave wages can't pay for.
And, it's the fault of Democrats for not doing unto Republicans what Republicans do unto them. They allow themselves to be punished for failing to compromise with the uncompromising. They let the Republican slander machine turn 'liberal' and 'progressive' into slurs.
I think it should be a priority of the party, and of progressives in general, to go on the offensive, everywhere, against conservatism. Make it a word too toxic for any politician to use. Progressives have won spectacular victories against the regressives in the social war by making homophobia and racism actually look as bad as they are. If they would only do the same on economics. How many times did you see a Democrat in this midterm election inform the voting public that trickle-down economics have a 30-year track record of making the rich richer and the poor poorer? How many of them ever asked a voter "does the CEO of the company you work for work ten thousand times as hard as you do?" or "do hedge fund brokers contribute hundreds of times more to society than teachers or doctors?" Did you ever see anyone ask if they would support a political party who strongly believes in the idea that you deserve to have to work far harder, longer and more dangerously than other people just to have the same basic level of existence? Did any of them ask "Should a company who makes billions in profits be allowed to pay people so little that they rely on government assistance to survive?"
No, you didn't hear any of these things. All you heard was a bunch of neofascists blaming Obama for problems that are almost entirely the fault of Republicans and then all of the racist idiots got all scurred and voted.
Republicans survive only because they play the game better. It's time we stopped letting civility get in the way of progress. Conservatives are poison and it's time Democratic politicians started making sure everybody knows it. We can't get better if we insist on letting the cancer stick around.
And, it's the fault of Democrats for not doing unto Republicans what Republicans do unto them. They allow themselves to be punished for failing to compromise with the uncompromising. They let the Republican slander machine turn 'liberal' and 'progressive' into slurs.
I think it should be a priority of the party, and of progressives in general, to go on the offensive, everywhere, against conservatism. Make it a word too toxic for any politician to use. Progressives have won spectacular victories against the regressives in the social war by making homophobia and racism actually look as bad as they are. If they would only do the same on economics. How many times did you see a Democrat in this midterm election inform the voting public that trickle-down economics have a 30-year track record of making the rich richer and the poor poorer? How many of them ever asked a voter "does the CEO of the company you work for work ten thousand times as hard as you do?" or "do hedge fund brokers contribute hundreds of times more to society than teachers or doctors?" Did you ever see anyone ask if they would support a political party who strongly believes in the idea that you deserve to have to work far harder, longer and more dangerously than other people just to have the same basic level of existence? Did any of them ask "Should a company who makes billions in profits be allowed to pay people so little that they rely on government assistance to survive?"
No, you didn't hear any of these things. All you heard was a bunch of neofascists blaming Obama for problems that are almost entirely the fault of Republicans and then all of the racist idiots got all scurred and voted.
Republicans survive only because they play the game better. It's time we stopped letting civility get in the way of progress. Conservatives are poison and it's time Democratic politicians started making sure everybody knows it. We can't get better if we insist on letting the cancer stick around.
