K&R if you like Obama! (This one is "mega-style"!)

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39. What in the fuck are you talking about?

Seriously, here's what "progressives" (i.e. centrists like you) don't fucking get and I REALLY wish you would: There are tens of millions of liberals/leftists, even strong Democrats in this country - probably even more than that. None of them have any political representation AT ALL in the US government. That's a political crisis, because every other ideological faction in the US has solid political representation in congress, the senate, and the WH.

Are you right-wing? Wonderful! There's hundreds of local and national politicians who will fight for you.

Are you libertarian? Great! You have your guys fighting for you too.

Are you just SLIGHTLY left of fascist? Cool! You get the White House this cycle (don't you feel lucky?!) and a whole bunch of politicians fighting for your right-leaning economic interests while going to bat (occasionally) for your SLIGHTLY left-leaning social interests.

Are you a liberal?

(silence)

Uh....Um....So! Subject change! How about that Tim Tebow, huh?

This political scenario leaves tens of millions of Americans, maybe more, disenfranchised and completely powerless. This explains why the Occupy protests were so plentiful and so loud. This explains why every centrist Dem's condescending framing of liberal issues amounts to "sorry you didn't get your pony, hippie." This explains why centrist Dems continually dismissing real, genuine, impoprtant issues - life or death issues - are continuously dismissed as "pony" issues. Climate change? Pony. Economic collapse? Pony. Homelessness? Pony. Poverty? Pony. Income inequality spiralling out of control? Pony.

As a self-proclaimed leftist ("liberal" is too fucking milque-toast), but even more as simply a label-less American who's one paycheck away from homelessness at all times but still employed, I take severe umbrage at the typical centrist framing of these massive crises that affect millions of Americans like myself as "you need to realize that the world doesn't revolve around you." Okay, well who got to decide that world revolved around the 1%? Who decided that the world revolved around Repubs-in-Dem-clothing who'll gladly give up public schools, public libraries, and any and all government agencies for the sake of political expediency? Who decided that the world revolved around those people rich enough to steal their wealth from the rest of us and buy off the institutions that could hold them accountable? I didn't fucking vote for this shit.

"When will Liberals finally wake up and see that the world doesn't revolve around them?" Okay, seriously?! When was the last time we had an effective liberal leader in this country? When was the last time liberals had ANY representation in government? You're acting like liberals hold all the cards in today's political landscape but you're either being willfully ignorant or disingenuous about the fact that liberals are the only ones who happen to be noticing and talking about these huge, looming REAL crises that are affecting the US, and that we're completely powerless to do anything about it.

It seems like centrists on DU only care about winning shit - after their fave candidate has won, and has done JACK SHIT to alleviate these huge problems, they've got nothing on their minds but the next election, and putting down those whiny liberals who keep pissing in their corn flakes. Beyond the machinations of the electoral cycle, there are gigantic problems that need to be solved lest the country fall even deeper into chaos and turmoil, and the only people who seem to see it and acknowledge it are the liberals.


Let me just say in closing that the Occupy movements are only going to get louder and noisier and the rolls of centrist Dems are only going to thin even more if the country continues to march down Trickle Down Ave. And then the Dems will be FORCED to start listening to liberals again. And then such snide condescension as exhibited in your post will read like Marie Antoinette, only a little more out of touch.