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(6,719 posts)Tis the way I see it all.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)... geniuses at the top of the Democratic Party are too fucking dense to see it.
(or maybe it's exactly what they want.)
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)and so does most of the public.
But until the next round of elections, we cannot change anything.
Can we count you in? Or can we count on you to only complain about the status quo?
99Forever
(14,524 posts)The choice between a crappy lying candidate or a really crappy sociopathic candidate?
Define your terms.
(Here's a hint for you: if it involves holding my nose to vote, it ain't happening.)
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I hope you enjoy 2010 revisited, with all the committee assignments and decisions as to what bills will be brought to the House and/or Senate floor going to the gop.
And if your really refuse to hold your nose long enough ... I don't want to see you postinjg a damn thing comlaining of the SCOTUS nominees after 2016.
But I know I will.
BTW ...
With that ... haven't you just excluded your continued participation at DEMOCRATICunderground?
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... standing up for them? Or is being a wishy washy, spineless, "'centrist" DINO now a "requirement" to speak your mind here?
And BTW, just who appointed you gatekeeper?
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)there is no rule against having principles and/or standing up for them; nor are there requirements to be a wishy washy, spineless, "'centrist" DINO.
But there ARE ToS rules against the crap that you pull on a daily basis; specifically:
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Right, pal?
Bye bye.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)truth; not so much.
Citing to the DemocraticUnderground ToS ... Absolutely.
99Forever
(14,524 posts).. if I won't be a spineless, condescending schmuck, you'll get me kicked out of your private club. 'Cuz only "people" who think exactly like you, can be "good members."
Sounds very familiar, somehow.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Agreement is not a condition, nor a consideration ... but only those that follow the ToS of a propriety website can be "good members."
99Forever
(14,524 posts)I won't be seeing or hearing you anymore. I promise not to miss you.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Thank you.
I wish you the same.
jazzimov
(1,456 posts)Nobody's perfect, and certainly no one will live up to your purity test - so you'll always be "holding your nose" in one respect or another. But if you decide to do nothing, that means you simply don't care. Which means you have nothing to complain about anything because you let it happen.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)He/She has been doing something that he/she really cares about ... posting invectives on an anonymous bulletin board, claiming that but for those traitorous Democrats that do not pursue his/her politically impossibly pure progressive agenda; we would be living in some progressive paradise. Even though, progressive only win in solidly Blue districts that make up maybe 5% of the electorate.
He/she clearly knows nothing of the two-party system that we have, or have the ability to count to 60 (right or wrong, the new political reality) or 218 (the same old political reality).
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)Obama has been falling for the same trick over and over.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)He is making that exact point.
Timbuk3
(872 posts)Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)Believe it or not, the idea of a Mixed Socialist/Capitalist economy was taught in my late 60s Public HS as the American Way.
How we've changed.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)we haven't ... The U.S. is still a Mixed Socialist/Capitalist economy; it's just the right focuses on the Capitalistic part, while condemning (but enjoying) the Socialistic part and the Left promotes the Socialist part, while condemning (but enjoying) the Capitalistic part.