Do any other folks here get the feeling Obama is TRYING to drive progressives out of the party?

[felix_numinous]

164. The good cop/bad cop argument needs to go.

That we should accept a choice between center right and insanity. This is what is crazy-- that anyone disagreeing with how far right we are is delusional. Vote for us 'Or else!!'

On the one hand we are being told to work within the chain of command with any disagreement, while at the same time being chastised for daring to do so.

Authoritarians punish honest dissent even when reasoned out, while rewarding true believer type behavior. But this is to be expected.

You have to be blind not to see what is happening with whistleblowers and peaceful demonstrators who HAVE been punished for reporting crimes and disagreeing with actions after obeying the law and chain of command- -and still use this argument. Their personal lives are attacked and ruined by people pretending the subject at hand is irrelevant.

And I do not know what is more disturbing, the character assassinations or the actions being exposed--to me both phenomena are part of the same message--an attempt to ostracize and divide people-- from within and without--from calling attention to or resisting the moving goalposts. We are being asked to turn a blind eye to atrocities and the broken system while we're at it.

The 'chain of command' is not working, the militarization of police is the answer to dissent.