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In reply to the discussion: I'm sorry, guys. I can't get past her vote for the Iraq "war". [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,036 posts)favorably to the modern Birchers that are the current TeaPubliKlan party.
It is a fairly worthless metric and sure as hell is far from a gold standard.
In fact, functionally the Tea idiots work as cover for the corporate toadies and resource warriors to do their damndest and play liberal and now (absurdly) populist.
I understand your position because I long shared it but I no longer see the outcomes as tolerable even if better than the offered alternative because of the functional feedback spiral that constantly moves in a two steps forward, one step back in the wrong direction under the cover of an ever more reactionary right.
I can hardly say we even are getting "good" on social issues, what credit I can give is more along the lines can be drug along after the majority of the public passes them by, which is a far sight better than the regressives fighting tooth and nail to turn back the clock to a more pre - enlightenment orientation but I don't know that I call that good either. More leading from the rear.
The economics, support for public education, the militarism, the security and police state, the corporate capture of government, protecting and advancing labor, and even increasingly the environmental stewardship are going in the wrong direction with different rhetoric and occasional "tweaks" that sometimes are more offensive than what was the previous state like retroactive immunity and disgusting "make it legal" patches that make the very things we have been fighting against all good in soulless maneuvers.
It is this development that leads to an absolute crisis of trust, too many times treason, subversion, murder, mayhem, theft on grand scales, and now blatant torture, war crimes, and corporate capture are not only being looked the other way for, not only covered up, not only white washed, but now actually codified at worst and dismissed as "policy difference" at best is a faith breaker because what comes out in the end is something very much like a shitload of cheap cologne sprayed over the worst B.O. aka pure stank of a greater magnitude than either could aspire to on its own.
At some point you become complicit no matter how many rationalizations you make for why and when you extend beyond that to the point you make what was wrong right by bringing it under the cover of the law then you become guilty of inflicting even greater damage than the original sin because you absolve the sin and make it acceptable.
If you are willing to provide that kind of cover then you probably aren't actually doing any better and the blood enemy bit sounds like extreme hyperbole and dishonest as hell misdirection to me as does the constant seeking of "bipartisanship" and should be laughable droning on about "common ground" all while they scream bloody murder and throw every wrench imaginable which cannot help but actually throw the balance ever toward the supposed opposition as far as worldview.
Every time one plays a round of one step forward, two steps back you end up a step further back than when you started and are moving toward your own goal line, perhaps less quickly than the team driving in that direction openly but even that is dubious when the standard defense is the prevent played deep, seemingly designed only to prevent scoring on a single play but willing to give up huge chunks short of that.
No, I feel no duty to support and condone the current path of the party no matter how scary the opposition, in fact, I feel a duty to make such wanderings to be less than viable so that the people have some plausible platform for actual representation.