Hillary Clinton is the Kevin Bacon of Wall Street.

[woo me with science]

51. Well, I guess I'm honored.

Also very sad for you that this is what constitutes a thrill in your life (!), but truly honored that you find my posts so important that you are driven to make a project out of them.


For the record, I would have voted to leave the post, too. It's silly in a junior high sort of way, but hardly rises to the level of hiding. It's not as though you cussed me out, although I can understand that the Third Way hoped that the post would be taken that way.

I've always been fascinated by the Third Way's obsession with publicly demonizing Libertarians, a fringe party that has never gotten anywhere near the White House. Then I realized that it was because Libertarians expose those Democrats' betrayal of voters on core issues that they should own but that they have cravenly abandoned because of corporate, monied corruption. Let's be honest: The only reason Libertarians get any political attention at all these days is because they say some of the right things re: reining in warmongering, curbing the drug wars, and stopping the outrageous surveillance and police state. But people still DETEST and rightfully fear their willingness to scrap social programs, privatize the hell out of everything, and gut Social Security.

All Democrats would have to do, both to reinvigorate the party *and* to let go of this bizarre obsession with Libertarians, would be to re-embrace the policies they were *supposed* to stand for all along. Stop the outrageous corporate war on marijuana and marijuana users. Stop pandering to the corporate One Percent with private prisons and draconian drug policies and a fascistic surveillance state. Be the party that not only ends the spying and the warmongering and the outrageous drug wars for profit, but also reins in Wall Street, restores our Constitution, reduces inequality, and STRENGTHENS social safety nets.

In fact, ending the monied corruption that drives the abandonment of those policies is the medicine a good many principled liberals are trying push for the Democratic Party right now - people like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and, yes, a whole bunch of posters at DU like me, that you try to heckle with silly attacks like the one that went to jury.

Those who whine about Libertarians while excusing the corporate sellout of our own party are part of the problem. Third Way Democrats would not have to worry about Libertarians at all if they would crawl out of their corporate Masters' pockets for long enough to own the issues they SHOULD own.