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In reply to the discussion: Lots of misunderstanding around here about what Michael Moore is doing. [View all]still_one
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was a vote for bush to a crowd of thousands of people, his intentions were quite clear.
Michael Moore also said that Romeny was going to win. Well he was wrong. Moore's prognostic skills are not that attuned.
He will do whatever he needs to do to get attention.
During the women's unity march, which was ABOUT WOMEN UNIFYING after trump won, Moore took it upon himself to take the opportunity to start bashing the so-called establishment Democrats, until Ashley Judd cut him short in midsentence, and pushed the divisive bullshit that he was pontificating out the door.
There is a time and a place for everything.
Right before critical elections, or events whose goal is to unify Democrats, and get them out to vote is NOT the time to start bashing Democrats
It is NOT unusual for Moore, doing this bullshit right before a critical election.
He predicted the 2016, bullshit at the time when a good number of self-identified progressives were conning enough people NOT to vote for the Democratic nominee in 2016 by either voting third party, or NOT voting, and that didn't just apply to the President.
EVERY DEMOCRAT running for Senate in the critical swing states lost to the incumbent, establishment, republican, and most of those Democrats were progressive by any standard.
Hillary lost in each one of those states by less than 1%, and that 1% was just the percentage of votes that Jill Stein received.
People are not going to be duped again by his demoralizing bullshit to get attention this time
People want to make excuses for him, that is their right, but I perceive he is back to his usual green party bullshit that he was pushing in 2000, about the false equivalency between the two parties.
That he throws the Flint crisis on the back of President Obama completely ignores the fact that it was the STATE and LOCAL elected officials in Michigan, that the people in Michigan voted for who created that situation, and part of the reason I suspect they voted those representatives in was because of the false equivalency LIES that were spewed by some of those self-identified progressives who actively campaigned as such.
Well, those damn ESTABLISHMENT DEMOCRATS, were the ones who gave us Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and Supreme Court justices like Rose Ginsberg, so his holier than thou of the ills of establishment Democrats, completely ignores the fact that the Democratic party IS NOT A MONOLITHIC PARTY, just as this country isn't a monolithic country. Howard Dean demonstrated that with his 50 state strategy.