So O's your man, and everyone on the right of your 10% way left crowd can go to hell. But what about the unity thing?
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Judah McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yup, the time for a policy of appeasement is over. I believe that you > have repeatedly said that yourself. > > Oh, wait...you want appeasement when it comes to right-wing nutjobs in the US? > > Sorry, no deal. > > I didn't care for the Democratic Party for a long time (and I'm still > suspicious of them) because they didn't seem to stand for much of > anything except getting elected. And as a result, they tended to not > get elected so much. And they deserved that. The Republican Party lost > a lot of moderates but at least were pushing a perceived philosophy. > To quote the Big Lebowski: "Say what you will about the tenants of > National Socialism, but at least its an ethos. " > > Progressives have been pushing for an ethos on the left. There is > disagreement about what all it should include of course, there is no > perfectly unified front. And politicians are still politicians and > will cave to expediency on occassion (see my vitriolic ire about > Obama's vote on FISA). But yeah, I want to see people stand up and say > "hey, here's what we believe in" and not back down from it, not fear > ticking off people that don't agree with them. I'm in favor of > universal health care. It ought to be considered a fundamental right. > You may not agree and that's cool but I'm not going to back down and > try to appease you because you're going to claim it's "liberal" and > "socialist" and try to scare me off and say that its not what the > center of the country wants. > > Your definition of "the middle" sucks dead donkey balls. For the past > two decades the "left" in the US would be considered center-right most > places. You think that Obama is really a leftist marxist socialist? > Hahahaha. I'm far more worried that he's going to be a corporate tool > like the "leaders" of the Democratic Party have been for quite some > time. > > Fox wants to keep running smear jobs on Democrats and suckle at Bush's > teat? Fine. Fuck them. They have every right to, but don't come > whinging when their reporters get left off a campaign plane. No > appeasement. > > Go out, state your case for your philosophy on government, society and > priorities and let the people decide how much they agree. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:277818 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
