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The Democratic Party Left Me Behind

...the 2010 midterm elections and Tea Party movement weren’t actually fueled by the far left, just a caricature of it.


Yep

Lie, lie, lie.

Sow fear and deception.


Care not in the least what is actually good, true, or needed.


Thy name is Republican.



Now “winning” as the party of Trump, the perfect expression of incoherent, deceptive, self-interested outrage. Wrapped in a too thin veneer of patriotism.
 
Maybe that’s true in some sense now in 2018 but the 2010 midterm elections and Tea Party movement weren’t actually fueled by the far left, just a caricature of it.

Yep

Lie, lie, lie.

Sow fear and deception.


Care not in the least what is actually good, true, or needed.


Thy name is Republican.



Now “winning” as the party of Trump, the perfect expression of incoherent, deceptive, self-interested outrage. Wrapped in a too thin veneer of patriotism.

All of this.
 
MDMH has now used the term 'astroturf' twice as a verb. what the fuck ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

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Here's the original Max Boot column.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...7/20/how-i-miss-obama/?utm_term=.253461879190

Conservatives accused Obama of hating America and going on an “apology tour.” Obama never claimed, however, that poor relations with Russia were the fault of “U.S. foolishness and stupidity” rather than Russian wrongdoing. Obama may have been naive in trying to “reset” relations with Moscow, but he did not say that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “fine” person — and he did not endorse the Russian’s lies over the truths unearthed by the U.S. intelligence community. The Iran nuclear deal was flawed, but it was infinitely stronger than the non-agreement Trump reached with North Korea. Obama even looks like a fiscal conservative compared with Trump, who is ushering in trillion-dollar deficits.
It can be depressing to think about our current predicament under a president whose loyalty to America is suspect but whose racism and xenophobia are undoubted. However, Obama’s speech gave me a glimmer of optimism — and not only because he cited Mandela’s “example of persistence and of hope.” He reminds me that just 18 months ago — can you believe it was so recently? — we had a president with whom I could disagree without ever doubting his fitness to lead. We can have one again.

Conservatives paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Now they're showing regrets.
 
It’s what happens when you imagine the best way to gain power is to spread lies, to adopt a platform founded on falsehoods, to deny reality, and to ratchet up animus towards any not falling in line with your fantastical false reality.

Then you end up with a con man, an idiot strong man wannabe as your master. And a party and a people unable to grasp truth or understand or do anything good.
 
"Some conservatives." Sooo many moderate conservatives yet I think each one has an op-ed, knashing their teeth and rending their garments, in the NYT and WaPo. Publishing these anti-Trump conservatives is masturbatory, it's political porn for a dying suburban white collar class that pulled up the ladder in 1975. A world wide economic crisis, an endless middle eastern military quagmire, Depression level wealth inequality, and a million dead Iraqis later, it's Trump complimenting Putin that's a bridge too far! "Have you no shame, Mr. President"?! Fuck every single one of those bullshit op-ed writing Republicans. They have so much blood on their hands they should all go jump off a fucking cliff and the world would be better for it.
 
90% of these Resistance conservatives worked for the fucking Bush administration. I don't really give a shit what they have to say from the comfort of their homes in Chevy Chase, smoking cigars in their study, fiddling while Rome burns. Send those worthless shitheads to the gulags and let them renounce Trump there.
 
I hope there’s a better way forward than gulags. Or guillotines.


Please.
 
I hope there’s a better way forward than gulags. Or guillotines.


Please.
Was there a better way forward than:
-Tent cities of homeless in every major city?
-Schizophrenics locked up in jail for lack of treatment
-A whole generation of Americans trapped in college debt who cant buy houses and wont have children?
-African Americans nationwide losing 75% of their wealth in 4 years?
-Cancer patients going bankrupt from medical bills?
-A las vegas hotel suing mass shooting victims to prevent them from suing first?
-Undercover police officers soliciting sex from prostitutes and then arresting them after sex?
-A cash bail system that keeps poor people with low level criminal charges in jail for years without a trial, while rich people accused of murder walk free


Yeah, I say bring on the gulags and guillotines for those "consistent political disagreements". Lets hash this shit out. Let moderate cons and dems figure out a market solution to climb out of a well.
 
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bold strategy cotton
Not a strategy - inevitability. How do you think massive inequality, injustice, distrust in government, and artificial partisanship turns out? Do you think about the country further out than the end of your mortgage?
 
Not a strategy - inevitability. How do you think massive inequality, injustice, distrust in government, and artificial partisanship turns out? Do you think about the country further out than the end of your mortgage?
you will still be ranting about this as an old man.
 
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