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[BainsBane]

209. I've had it with your petty insults

No, a constitutional amendment isn't possible as long as people like you care only about sowing division among the people, as long as people like you work to promote the mythology that all that matters is who occupies the white house. Clearly you find the idea of real change so unacceptable, you turn to insults to ensure no one discuss anything other than the fortunes of one member of the political elite or another. If you wanted change, you would work for it rather than relentlessly targeting Democrats who suggest doing something that matters.

If you actually gave a shit about what I believed, you could look at my journal. While you post about how much you resent Democratic voters and your singular focus on the fortunes of the political elite, I post about social justice. Not only have I posted about political economy on this site, I have done so in responses to you.

That suggestion of working to get money out of politics through a constitutional amendment really pissed you off. If you shared that goal, you would say great, let's talk about how we can do that. But instead you show that all you care about is hurling around empty insults. Meanwhile you defend a multi billion dollar gun lobby--The MOST POWERFUL lobby in Washington--that subverts the will of the people and kills hundreds of thousands, all because you want moar guns. Your relentless efforts to sow enmity and target Democrats show clearly what your goals are, and your response above tells me the last thing you want is to see money out of politics or any diminution in the power of capital over the state.

The election will be what it will be. I am not responsible for the candidates that choose to run, but I am the enemy because I refuse to stick to what your obsessive focus on one member of the political elite or another. You're right. We are not on the same side. I do not target working Americans, the poor, and ordinary Democratic voters as the enemy. I target capital, and the change I want to see focuses on capital, while you work to promote the machinations of a political system tied to those interests.

My congressman is chair of the progressive caucus. I live in one of the most progressive states in the nation, and I work for progressive goals like marriage equality, voting rights, and raising the minimum wage--all concerns we have managed to enact through activism rather than hurling insults at Democrats. We don't have a backwoods educational system, and we don't have Senators like Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul. The Democratic Party here is called the Democratic Farmer Labor party, and our state has a proud history of socialist politics. Meanwhile, you live in a center of Tea Party politics and have refused to do anything at the local level to lessen the stranglehold the right has there. It is not me who works to drive this country back to the nineteenth century. We are light years ahead of KY, and progressives in my community actually work to get policies enacted. Meanwhile, you hurl insults at those progressives when they have the nerve to talk about policy and substantive change. Third way my fucking ass. How about you start taking some responsibility for your own political engagement?

I've had it with your bullshit, which I find far from convincing. Go hurl your mud at some other Democrat who refuses to parrot the latest GOP spin. You are on ignore.