- Read through the last few days of Greenwald's columns, covering Democrat leader Steny Hoyer's back-room maneuvers to force immunity through telecoms through Congress, while publicly lying about it, and while also arranging to be able to actually vote against the deal he creates so he'll be able to falsely claim he didn't support it.
- Meanwhile Obama is doing nothing to stop it, but is issuing bland statements that mildly oppose it.
- Internet progressives continue to lament the "spinelessness" or the "weakness" of the Democratic Party. Liberal blog hero Digby just can't understand why Democrats won't stop shredding the Constitution and figures there must be some deep dark secret that they're afraid will be let out or something.
- Wake the fuck up! Democrats WANT this shit. They don't care about the Constitution. They WANT telecom immunity! They WANT domestic spying! Their highest levels of leadership work to make it happen, while maintaining in public that they don't want it but can't help it.
- They'd rather you think they're weak than have you realize what they really want. That way you can believe that they're really good people deep down, but if only they had more courage...
- This shit is so fucking obvious, but every day you hear a new complaint about how bumbling and cowardly the Democrats are. The media perpetuates this narrative because they're in on it too.
- Remember how the Democratic takeover in 2006 was supposed to end the war but instead the war was escalated? That's because the Democrats don't want to end the war. They want to get votes from people who want the war to end. So they say they want to end the war, then they discretely make sure the war goes on, while they publicly pretend that they just couldn't fight the bully Republicans, but maybe if we elect even more Democrats then maybe they'll be able to stand up for themselves. Bullshit. Same with torture, rendition, domestic spying, Iran, and everything else. More Democrats won't do any better.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
"weak Democrats" my ass
I've been meaning to write this up more formally but I'm just going to jot down some notes. Perhaps I'll come back and fill in links and more reasoning later.
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Um, I think I recognize at least one of the targets of this rant, so I thought I'd weigh in.
There's no denying, this is a huge kick in the nuts to the Democratic party's most active, most enthusiastic base. I don't know if it was intentional or a misjudgement, but they sent a huge shot across our bow.
I think there's much more here than meets the eye. I don't think it's as simple as 'all politicians are predisposed to authoritarian fascism.' Someday it will all be clear to us, but in the meantime the Democrats pissed off a whole lot of us and there will be hell to pay. Grab your popcorn and settle in for some good fireworks!
I don't think it's as simple as 'all politicians are predisposed to authoritarian fascism.'
No it isn't that simple. It is slightly more complex:
'just about all politicians who rise to national office will act in ways that effectuate authoritarian fascism.'
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