Dear Mr. President, I demand that you lead me! And by that, of course, I mean you should totally ignore your own judgment and pretend you're me, because managing my own life is just too hard - I'd rather manage yours. Talking to you in my imagination is much easier than taking responsibility as a citizen for my own role in America's progress or lack thereof. Some would say that my attitude is a symptom of the problem, but to those people I have a very clear and compelling rebuttal: Shut up! I did not join Daily Kos three weeks ago (UID: 47873221937293328) just to see it turn into a place where impotent, self-destructive whining and character assassination of Democrats is treated like a bad thing.
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Now, I've thought about this very carefully - which is to say, I've studied my holy canon of HuffPo editorials, Glenn Greenwald articles, and Cenk Uygur screeds - and I've come to the eminently rational, constructive conclusion that the best way forward is to (a)completely destroy the Democratic Party, (b)turn once-liberal blogs into left-flavored teabagger hate spigots, and (c)demonize every identifiably human individual who comes within a country mile of holding office until the only people who can safely do so are those whose criminality exceeds all possible exaggeration.
I have heard the claim that this is all a pathetic, ego-driven attempt to deflect responsibility for our failure to produce a Congress amenable to our agenda. I have also heard the claim that obsessing on the decisions of one man indicates simple-minded authoritarianism incapable of self-governance in a constitutional, three-branch system. To everyone who thinks that, I think you'll find my counter-argument persuasive: Shut up!
It was not we who failed to elect a Congress that would pass our agenda - that was Obama's failure. He failed to make the American people do what liberal activists demand, which is the entire purpose of democracy - it even says so right in the Declaration of Independence, right after Thomas Jefferson's eloquent "Free Mumia" cantata.
Our choice is clear: Either we can get serious, return to reality, and focus on making progress like intelligent adult citizens of a democratic republic...BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA...(gasp) oooo, heh, I slay myself sometimes...or we can stop letting little things like elections, separation of powers, laws, political reality, and moral consistency get in the way of striking a blow for the proletariat. Come on, boys and girls, whaddaya say? Let's have a sequel to the Weimar Republic, with Reds and brownshirts battling it out in the streets in a colossal rematch - maybe the outcome will be different this time.
Surely, given everything we've seen in our history, the American people would prefer to be dominated by a bunch of obscurantist economic theoreticians, endlessly fractious identity constituencies, and limitlessly petty political nitpickers rather than be violently ruled by a bunch of fascistic dullards with simple-minded slogans and beliefs they can summarize in bathroom-stall graffiti. We're just a hop, skip, and a jump away from anarcho-syndicalism becoming a regular topic of dinner conversation in typical American homes, aren't we? Of course, some people insist this is a false dilemma, and that America's survival during the Great Depression largely rested on rejecting it in favor of more holistic politics, but they're forgetting one thing: Shut up!
If Obama won't force us to be competent citizens - another gargantuan failure on his part (why does he victimize us so?) - then I guess we'll just have to go for our own oligarchy instead of acting intelligently to prevent the right-wing version from ruling us. And to lead this Revolutionary Council, I propose the following triumvirate of strong, constructive leaders, who have proven their credentials as non-sellouts:
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/9/927331/-Liars,-and-PUMAs,-and-Trolls,-Oh-My!This is spot on! The poo flinging begins in 3..2...
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