I'm a populist; I'm no longer a Democrat.

[freshwest]

76. That last sentence says it all, no fooling around. This is an election year and it effects turnout.

Just as it's intended to do. The amount of negativity sinks into the subconscious and does its work all the way through to election day.

It's from Nixon's CREEP and Donald Segretti termed it as 'Ratfucking.' So many things have been debunked, but they set up an internalized filter that literally depresses the people hearing it and literally depresses the vote. History has shown the steady success of this psychological tool:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Segretti

The garbage we are daily assaulted here is not policy analysis, not philosophy but competing media memes. The opposite of outright RW propaganda is not populism and libertarianism, but that is all we are getting, one of the other.

Bashing without any solutions that we all know do not work and are not going to happen and is not liberalism. We have half the American population firmly opposed to our ideals.

Those who are shredding us are either in those camps, easy enough to read, or those who playing Segretti's game. And that is nearly 100% of media, no matter what they call themselves. They have no solutions because they will not answer questions with what they know as well as most of us will get done, and spend their time attacking those working to get things done in ane environment with a lot of opposing voices and a lot of lives at stake.

Some that claim to be liberal, are not willing to sacrfiice their currernt comfort for the good of the very poor or oppressed, which does not look liberal to me. Ignoring their plight while pursuing one's own benefit, squalling of losing a dime while others get nothing, shows they don't believe in equality except in slogans.

The ACA was an example, as one of its major goals was to give healhcare to those who have been dying for a lack of care altogether, not just to make those in the middle class better off. Those are the main beneficiaries, but they seem to just be invisible to the middle class online keyboard warrior. After all, they can't afford being online...

A non-vote or a throw away vote is effectively a vote for the strong and the powerful, that such claim to oppose. But no one is taking the part of the TOS you cited seriously:

If you are bashing, trashing, undermining, or depressing turnout for our candidates during election season, we'll assume you are rooting for the other side.

The other side doesn't have to be the official other, like the GOP. It can be several other groups, and it leads to the status quo.

Ain't buying it.



What do you think, Tarheel?