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(32,139 posts)The corporate crew was all over the boards with it, and there was even an OP: "We can't ally with these people!" or something like that. Someone at a protest of THOUSANDS shows up with a tasteless sign, and the whole protest is smeared, and we get lecturing idiocy about allying with Libertarians. What manipulative, predictable Third Way garbage.
You know WHY the bombing of Syria was beaten back? Because Americans (and the world) opposed it overwhelmingly, even across party lines. We are waking up. There was not enough circling of wagons this time to defend the indefensible, even though the reliable Third Way crew did their best to accomplish just that. They were the *only* ones making ghoulish arguments that bombing would be "humanitarian."
We're learning more and more about the LIE we are constantly fed by the Third Way: that we must circle the partisan wagons and defend predatory corporate and neocon/neoliberal policies for fear of enabling the Other Party.
No, it turns out that the hectoring for mindless partisanship and wagon circling are tactics used AGAINST us by the corporate One Percent. They are the means by which Americans are kept divided and unable to unite against the predatory corporate agenda.
There is nothing more important right now than uniting as Americans against what the predatory class is doing to us. The incessant garbage propaganda with second grade logic and guilt by association is pathetic and transparent, and simply doesn't work anymore. No, I will not avoid a protest against something I consider fundamentally evil and wrong, just because a Libertarian might show up to protest it, too.
You have fun with that last post rule. I'm done here, as it's bedtime and I'm bored with this nonsense.