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In reply to the discussion: Just as being a poor republican makes little sense, I cannot vote for Hillary. [View all]TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)No, I recall it quite well. I also haven't forgotten the tens of thousands in Florida and millions nationally of "Democrats" that straight up voted for Bush (as well as the many more that about broke their own necks to vote for Reagan) that aren't ever painted as villains.
Seems my non purity has only bought me more and more to be disgusted and harmed by as the cycles go, seems to me some purity and hard-nosed purity at that is required by ongoing circumstances, not the least of which is the ever increasing of the gravitational pull of the right wing. A "radical left fringe" that is upon closer inspection turns out to be New Deal non - interventionist moderates just is in no way a counter for a large far right that is made up of the Birch Society types and worse and a middle seemingly consisting of Nixonian, interventionists, corporate globalists who hate the Bill of Rights and have heaping disdain (or even enmity) for any below the professional class save perhaps the most meager of alms for the poorest of the destitute that manage to avoid becoming the untouchable class of the homeless.
Well, if New Dealism is going to be the left fringe then it better be very damn feisty and unrelenting because it is built on sanding down the worst excesses of a uncompromising and entropy fueled philosophy of ever increasing consumption and avarice.
If you are already based on compromise to maintain a toxic system then hell yeah you better be pure as the driven snow because every further move plants the seeds of absolute surrender.