July 8, 2015

A person has to dig way down and wide to get a swing at that pinata.

It's appalling that in a country that only has two viable parties, one of them, that regularly gathers close to half or more than half the votes, is so far out to lunch on simple matters of human decency. All Dems should recognize this - that an alignment with such an evil political party can't be let to define what is "moderate" or "center" in political discourse. All Dems should recognize this - that the Republican "base" is big money in the form of investment capital and that there's no way a Dem can reasonably "abstract social issues from economic issues", as third-way politics asks of us. To say nothing of abstracting economic issues from issues regarding the MIC and a foreign policy established on the principal of eternal war.

It's all part of the same thing and Trump/Cruz are only the most nasty faces of it, in today's political news.

July 8, 2015

Because they're honest about it.

Not pretending to be progressive and not even deigning to nod in the direction of 'liberal'. They are honest. Not pretending that "policy" matters to them, explaining up front that they're in it to win and that they love the money that they think it takes to win.

There are many DU posters who agree with ConservativeDemocrat, many of whom sport HRC logos as avatar. But there are also those who promote third-way economic/military policy but who aren't so up front. Hell, at first just a couple but now there are several actually pretending to be "Bernie supporters", using that front to promote their insidious message.

I find ConservativeDemocrat's honesty refreshing.

July 7, 2015

The problem that I have with "Skinner's advice",

and please see my post #24 to understand more about where I'm coming from, is that his comment chastising supporters of Bernie Sanders for uncomely behaviour was not fair - considering that at the same time Skinner was donning a HRC logo. His comment was "blind", it was partisan, and it is still being used today to bludgeon Bernie Sanders' supporters.

Please see the Bernie Sanders group on DU and compare it with any other group, for any other candidate, regarding whether it is upbeat, positive, pro-Democratic. Skinner's slam against Bernie Sanders' supporters was wrong. It doesn't reflect the reality of DU.

July 7, 2015

Imagine. There are some who want to see him executed for treason.

Others more compassionate just want him to serve the rest of his life in solitary.
Of these there are some who wouldn't mind to see him water-boarded and worse, worse forever if their imagination needs the room, so long as nobody is caught, so long as nobody can prove it in a court of law - all of which are owned.
(If someone is caught it's a black eye, but if nobody is caught it's a feather in our cap.)
This way we get to discern a "liberal center". A land of "bleeding hearts".

July 7, 2015

You didn't try very hard.

http://www.latimes.com/la-na-c1-bernie-sanders-president-2016-20150306-story.html#page=1

It quotes from an extemporaneous speech at the Prairie Lights bookstore way back in early March.

July 4, 2015

It doesn't mean anything.

What means something is that Mao kicked out the European free-ports, those colonialist enterprises run by colonialist countries.
It had to be done.
The Brits still had their Island colony.

The ruling class on that Island colony hadn't done a very good job for China, when they were in power - and now they ruled their Island at Her Majesty the Queen of England's sufferance.
In the thousands of years of China's history, their governance was the nadir.

China now had to fend for itself outside of and ostracised from the American/European economy, in a condition that was totally undeveloped and totally the product of neglect.

For all its faults, China is now/soon the #1 economy in the world.
That happened quickly, considering the size of the engine.
The Chinese invented the concept of "state capitalism" decades ago, whereas most Americans still associate China with a nebulous hate-word 'communism', think its economy has something to with "Marx", and beyond those insights don't have a clue.

July 1, 2015

You have successfully run me off DU.

Not your post alone, of course, but because I respect your posts and it was you who posted it, it was "the straw that broke my back", my will to continue.

I cannot post on a forum where I'm accused of being a racist because I support the ideals and aspirations of Bernie Sanders, and try to defend Bernie Sanders against innuendo that he's either a racist or doesn't give a shit about racial issues. When I can't even rec a post lauding MLK, without being shat on as "cherry picking" or whatever crap-filled innuendo is being flung.

I respect your posts, and those of 1SB and others. I think you all have good hearts.

But I cannot continue to post on DU when discussion is under such an all pervasive noxious cloud, where I have no way to defend myself against slander against my character.

June 30, 2015

There are a couple well known people on DU flying the Bernie avatar

who have never, to my knowledge as a regular reader of DU, posted anything remotely suggesting that they would support Bernie Sanders. The opposite, in fact -- their politics would be way way way closer to yours. As "Bernie supporters" their posts have never promoted any policy that Sanders is distinguished for, but instead all their posts castigate Sanders' supporters for being especially awful people.

Go figure.

June 30, 2015

You do realize that the Saudi despots aren't, like, "the good guys" on planet Earth?

If the US wanted to spend a couple years working up a case of hate against the Saudi regime, as forerunner to one of their now regular "regime change" operations, they wouldn't have much of a problem. Certainly no more of a problem than they have against all the other hated enemies.

Right now the PNAC list of prime targets has been whittled down to Syria, Lebanon (??), Iran, and most certainly Iran has seen the progression and knows that it's next in line. God only knows how the USA expects to control the product of their ME war, where they're aligned with extremist despots in Saudi Arabia (wahhabi - ISIS - al queda). The question baffles the best of minds.

June 11, 2015

Posts like this say that NOTHING MATTERS.

And a letter 'D' is NOTHING if all there is to it is blind submission to authority, so long as it is 'D'.
It's part of that damned "loyalty oath" crusade, that hit when HRC's candidacy hit.