Just after WI was (re-)won they went through their Kubler-Ross stages but--as with all things liberal--stunted the emotional process by stopping well-short of Acceptance.
They are now working on a new meme: we're too nice, they're too mean.
This has nothing to do with civility. Civility was out the window won Bush won in 2000 and Gore decided he wanted to cherry pick democrat held counties for a recount. Since then we've been treated to everything from being called racists for not wanting to spend $1 trillion dollars on unions and boondoggles to being accused of inspiring 9/11 CTer Jared Loughner. Meanwhile they revel in posts from MasturbatingNemesis while listening to Mike Malloy and Alan Grayscum. Scott Walker was simultaneously compared to Hitler and Stalin (so much for the efficacy of WI public schools).
Since this new meme seems to soothe DUmbasses (READ: it can't be challenged without betraying sympathy for the other side) this is the new talking point. I noted a couple of instances just after the recall win and today Nads is cited by hillneck and ScubaGuy in separate threads, advancing the meme.
Now, DUmb**** Kentuck dutifully adds his voice:
kentuck (61,675 posts)
A very nasty political environment.
It's obvious that the Republican right-wing is at war with this Administration and everything Democratic, including the very word. (Democrat)
With what happened in Wisconsin and what is happening in Florida and elsewhere, their forces are advancing as if it were an actual war. They mean to destroy Obama and the Democratic Party.
We see the purging of voters in Florida and other states not as visible, such as Texas. We see the blatant disrespect for our public workers and our unions. They are using the debt issue, which they created, to destroy the very foundations of our society, the teachers, the firemen, the police. This is a very serious matter.
We cannot depend on the media to inform the people. They are mainly into the entertainment, the horse-race aspect, "he said, she said" type of reporting. There is very little actual honest reporting of what is happening in our country at this time.
Democrats feel the anger and animosity and reflexively fight back with similar tactics that the Repubs are using. It only turns up the heat and there is little light. We must understand the nature of this opponent and not become like them.
This is a battle for the hearts and minds of the American people. It is a propaganda war as much as it is a political struggle. We must keep the facts on our side. We must yield the sword of truth. That is the best weapon we have at this time.
TRANSLATION: Those damned republicans keep winning and doing what they said they would and not what we want.
Skittles (79,737 posts)
1. as repukes ALWAYS do, they will overreach
hopefully voters will catch on by November
And not a hint of any sense of irony.
TheKentuckian (15,485 posts)
2. I'd put them way past overreach already. If not then the correction won't mean much.
I also don't think we can be sitting around waiting for reaction to fix the world. We have to make our way rather than waiting for karma or mistakes by the opposition to hand it to us.
Skittles (79,737 posts)
4. I feel burned out
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I live in a country where good people struggle but hateful bastards like Glenn Beck get paid 100 million to further divide us....where people care more about Dancing with the ****ing Stars than who might be appointed to the Supreme Court - I am disgusted and fed up. I won't give up but I see people waking up only when it is far, FAR too late.
TheKentuckian (15,485 posts)
3. You seem to assume an atmosphere where the truth sees daylight and further
where it can be distinguished clearly from distortion and falsehood.
Where is this world? If it was here it passed with signs of being further away by the day.
I also see more signs of hearts and minds be corralled into a very tight area of room for debate more than being fought over, where is the fight?
kentuck (61,675 posts)
5. Unfortunately...
I don't assume truth can be clearly distinguished from the propaganda war now being spread.
My concern is that we will continue to fight but the fight will be without a purpose. We fight for the injustice we see coming down the road, as well as the injustice we see in front of us, and soon we will fight just for the fight.
You are a soldier, Kentuckian.
A slur against real soldiers.
HereSince1628 (23,057 posts)
7. I think we (citizens of the US) are already at the point of fighting just to be fighting.
America has always been attracted to rebelliousness, but things have reached the state of being pathological.
The tea-party has picked up on the R's political impedance and contrariness, typified by Norquist's "no new taxes, shrink government" and Mitch McConnell's approach. Now the republican base, which cannot grasp the principles involved, simply walks around looking for a fight, with one or more 'Don't Tread on Me' flag magnets stuck to their cars, and tattooed on their arms.
What they mostly want to fight is anything that is status quo--except of course they don't want to change to status quo of belligerence.
In the face of amazing amounts of dry powder seemingly unreasonably held in reserve, the left has also developed an appetite for belligerence and confrontation.
Across America, around kitchen tables, in conference rooms and in legislatures there is no respect, no recognition of alternate views, no interest in searching for compromise that captures the best of both points of view. It's all or nothing and very serious.
Many of the politicians, political pundits, and even DU'ers use language so deeply embedded in defensiveness that it suggests existential desperation. Intolerance is growing.
We are in a social environment where competitive debate replaces discussion and where debate is nothing but verbal combat. It seems to have been brought about by the approach of one political party determined to have its way, either by winner-take-all outcomes or refusal to cooperate. But, as argued by Adam Curtis, in "The Power of Nightmares", it could also have arisen from fundamental religious rhetoric, not only in America, but also in the Eastern Mediterranean.
After decades of this, the distinction of chicken vs egg arguments seems less important than recognition of the current increasingly unstable state of affairs here.
As a society we've drawn up sides, we dream of conflict, and we practice arguments that will justify conflict.
These people are Darwinists, right?
I'm not saying we should glorify combat for combat's sake. Conflict always carries an opportunity cost. It's wasteful and inefficient but these people preach the gospel of survival of the fittest then whine whenever life doesn't drop everything into their lap with a pink bow on it. Worse, if someone has a contrary idea/desire that person is supposed to forsake all sense of self for the Left's immediate wants.
Nothing stops these assholes from creating 100% organic food stores that pay $20/hr and have insurance co-ops while giving their products to homeless people without regard to profit.
The only people stopping the DUmbasses are the DUmbasses themselves (and the basic laws of economics).
Anyway...
...look for a lot more of these threads. They're cheap, easy and can't be contested.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002798835
