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[Junkdrawer]

1. A Modest Proposal....

Soylent Green

[kelliekat44]

35. But then, whom would the elite have to look down on? nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

55. More close to the truth than many people realize.

Many years ago, Frances Fox Piven pointed out why "the poor" were needed, esp. by the rich.

Johnson's "war on Poverty" provided millions of dollars over the years to a giant multi-layered web of
Federal and state agencies, people to staff them, people to study the poor, people to staff the city and local agencies to provide vouchers, services to "the poor" and a fair amount of money actually got to "the poor" in form of AFDC
(welfare) checks and food stamps..( back then food stamps actually had some value).

Oh,yeah, let's not forget the system of universities and colleges which developed programs for Social Work and other
"poverty" related programs, turning out graduates who found work in the multi layers of the system.

By creating an organized system of "fighting poverty", the country could feel good about "taking care of the poor" while at same time punitive policies kept the poor in their place, where they served as object lessons to those class layers above them. And all that money spent, by the states and the Feds, supported a lot of middle class families whose income depended on the bureaucracy of the Poverty program.

The more postiive side of the above was that there WAS a social safety net for people who needed it.

[trof]

2. Did you just get a new crate of hand grenades?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021943441

[randome]

10. Then why are you here?

[SidDithers]

11. That's the $64,000 question, isn't it...nt

Sid

[Chan790]

43. Because by its ToS and founding positions, it's explicitly supposed to be.

The real $64,000 question is:

"Since it's supposed to be, why are Skinner, EarlG and elad so utterly fucking delinquent in PPRing those people who work against it by promoting radical centrism and right-wing values which make being a Democrat (and by extension, all of the left-blogosphere including DU) suck by being no longer Democratic, progressive or liberal?"

Just because one chooses to not want to be a thought-leader does not mean one who is by position, acclaim or prestige has any say in the matter. (To put that another way, much like Rush Limbaugh is an arbiter of RW orthodoxy (and chooses to be), Skinner is such a liberal arbiter by virtue of position whether he wants to be or not.) With all apologies, it's necessary in explaining this concept to borrow from former US ambassador to the Vatican and RW legal theorist, Mary Ann Glendon: "refusing to take a moral position is a moral stand in itself." Not tombstoning people whose opinions are anti-liberal, anti-progressive and/or pro-third-way is to acquiesce to the rightward drift of the Democratic Party because DU is a place where people who are not DUers look to, to tell them what liberalism and the Democratic Party stands for...and Skinner cannot escape that by merely saying he wants to promote a diversity of opinions...it does factually whether he wants it to or not, require a modicum of curation to expel those POVs which he finds not merely abhorrent but anti-Democratic and illiberal.

Not everybody who needs to be banned is a troll, some are just vocally not really Democrats (regardless of whether they think they are) or in-large hold opinions that make them unfit to speak for Democratic values. Being a Democrat requires more than checking the right box on your voter registration. Mark me as pro-litmus-test but make no mistake that I demand to be marked as believing in the existence of core inviolate Democratic values. Those that promote anathema to those values should be muted here.

[randome]

17. I'm here to debate and share and learn.

I think you might want to check your blood sugar level.

[randome]

26. I'll make one last...meh...to get you to step away from the ledge.

Where have I ever advocated for trickle-down economics or tax cuts for billionaires?

Don't worry, it's a rhetorical question.

[hrmjustin]

41. Jury results.

Automated Message
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Are you saying that this is now a conservative site?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1943904

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Accusing a fellow DUer to be a conservative, and entire thread is based on useless flamebait and whining about DU.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Fri Dec 7, 2012, 09:31 PM, and the Jury voted 2-4 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: I read a valid question, NOT an accusation. But then again, I'm just a dumb bleeding heart, bed-wetting liberal.
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[HiPointDem]

47. jesus. i can see about 5 posts on this thread that deserve alerts way more than that.

it rather confirms the theory that there are some people alerting on others constantly, hoping to run up their 'hidden post' counts and get them tossed.

[HiPointDem]

46. +100

[99Forever]

52. You got that right. n/t

[slackmaster]

4. WWTDKS?

[krhines]

59. +1

This is the first thing I thought of too.

[Scuba]

5. Isn't that what they're trying to do?

[woo me with science]

39. It's what they have already done and continue to do.

Austerity kills. Thieving from the poor to give to the rich kills.

This is not just about Medicare and Social Security, although the murders will be multiplied with additional attacks to these safety nets.

Medicare and Social Security were already used as hostages to get an austerity deal. We hear a lot of despicable propaganda trying to convince us that we will have been victorious if only these particular cuts are spared. What utter hogwash. We have already been sold out to right-wing lies about what is wrong with our economy and what is necessary to fix it. We get trillions slashed from the budget no matter what. We get murderous austerity, more hungry, homeless, desperate, and dying, more suicides, no matter what.

[craigmatic]

6. It wouldn't becase rich people hae no skills and are lazy as fuck.

[craigmatic]

15. Rich people didn't build shit. Let's put kidding aside slaves built America.

[srican69]

7. the world will be a better place for whom?

Does the existance of poor people bother you ?

If so please fuck yourselves..

I know poor people who love their kids and dream of a better days for their kids..and work their butts off for it...and still remain very poor


They may be poor..but they know what love is...and understanding that...is to be a liberal

[banned from Kos]

12. stupid poll deserves stupid vote

that is all.

[srican69]

18. you are either

Very young and don't know what you are taking about...or a sociopath who might become a serial killer..

[banned from Kos]

24. You don't understand that politics is the art of the possible

It is all about coalition building, teamwork, pulling together fractious elements, and uniting people with different goals.

You care about poor people most. Fine.

I care about climate change, regulations that end corporate abuse, personal liberties, civil liberties, tax fairness, labor unions and so on.

Maybe we only have one thing in common -- defeating Republicans. That is good enough if only 51% of us share that goal.

[99Forever]

53. The horseshit "art of the possible" meme..

.. was a fucking lie and shitty excuse the first time it was said and hasn't gotten any better with time.

[srican69]

27. pleeeese

F ..your selves


why would you even think of such a thing???


I know a good shrink...and I think you might need one.

[randome]

29. Some context may be needed.

'Tombstoned' means kicked off DU.

And it seems to me that she wants to get herself tombstoned.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

33. I can understand the upset this poll can cause a person

I was ready to hit the alert at first site! But then I saw it was devilgrrl that did it and if you saw they other post. devilgrrl has a habit of posting dark, sometimes very disheartening post. It is just her wat to point out something she is upset about.

For me, it is very painful. The topic hurts very much due to having people come up to me when I was living on the street and mockingly ask me to "Off" myself because I was making them sick. Or when they threw trash at me and yelled get a job _____!

But this is devilgrrl way of venting. Please don't take it personal!

[annabanana]

54. I really wonder why you continue to post

somewhere that you hold in such contempt.

[randome]

22. Welcome to DU. Please excuse the rash one.

[Chan790]

48. No, don't excuse the rash one. She's right all around. n/t

[Chan790]

45. I can vouch for her being neither.

devilgrrl, like I, is merely a liberal who feels that DU and the Democratic party should be unwelcoming to anti-liberals...note I did not say moderates or centrists; I said people who are actively anti-liberal & anti-progressive working to recast the party as radically-centrist, center-right or third-way.

[moondust]

13. 1%: Flood the country with guns and they'll kill each other!

Problem solved! Our hands are clean!

[HiPointDem]

50. and drugs, which my neighborhood is currently being flooded with. the uptick is very obvious, & it

goes with the uptick in unemployment.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

21. Ouch.

this hurts.

[banned from Kos]

31. Actually Ayn Rand herself campaigned against Reagan

because she was pro-choice.

I'll take her vote any time.

[MessiahRp]

42. Wow.

Just fucking wow. You can keep Ayn Rand. Maybe we should call you Paul Ryan from now on.

[Chan790]

49. Wow.

...
...
...
Just "wow". I'm nearly speechless...courting the vote of Ayn Rand or objectivists in general should carry consequences beyond immediate PPRing.

Too bad none exist.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

32. I know you mean it as sarcasm. But it hurts me for a reason.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021942949

[PufPuf23]

34. Don't forget the elderly and Baby Boomers who weren't greedheads.

I like your OPs this eve devilgrrl; they are spot on.

Stimulated me to post out some frustrations at DU.

[woo me with science]

36. That's *exactly* what austerity does.

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[coalition_unwilling]

38. You need one more choice: "No, we need to keep them alive so in

watching them suffer we can be convinced of our own righteousness and superiority."

Otherwise, great poll. Not sure I agree with you 100% about the direction DU is going, but I recently got accused of being 'excessively negative' for pointing out that 1 in 5 American children currently lives in poverty.

[HughBeaumont]

44. You know who had the right idea? Art Laffer!

&feature=relmfu

My boss and his associates recommended that I watched this. I can't even take five minutes of this debunked nonsense-vomiter preaching to his white rich Repub choir at the City Club, let alone an HOUR of it. A two minute Google search capsizes his crapship straight away.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

51. Uh, what do you mean, "we", devilgrrl?

You're suggesting mass suicide, unless "we" get "them" to do the killing.

[kestrel91316]

56. That's what wars are for.

[standingtall]

57. I see the sarcasm

but if that were to really happen. The remaining classes would just cannibalize themselves through greed, and create an entirely new class of poor people, and the cycle would continue until no one is left.

[Rex]

58. Who would do all the work?

You think wealthy people are going to do such things as *gasp* LABOR!?!?! They would probably rather starve then be seen with a shovel.