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calimary

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19. Welcome to U, Nwgirl503.
Fri Dec 16, 2016, 11:52 PM
Dec 2016

This shit is just beyond discouraging! I've noticed more appeals lately that Dems start fighting like the GOP does. Ruthlessly, deviously, dirty.

Hey, if that's the way the game is played, I say we go all in. I say we BETTER go all in! FUCK this shit about taking a nice feather duster to a gunfight.

Many of us have been complaining about this FOR YEARS. TIRED of being nice. SICK of "taking the high road." I have observed, over the years, that taking the high road leads you straight over a cliff.

If we always take the high road, and the enemy takes the low road, we WILL lose. And we'll have that "lovely" satisfaction of being all moral and nice and high-minded - while we're shut out of power and the bad guys with the worst ideas and the shittiest motivations and the most crass and most sinister ulterior motives get to govern and lock their power in and cheat and lie and scheme and stack the deck and then get away with it.

I sincerely love Michelle Obama's invocation of our better angels: "when they go low, we go high." I love the sound of it and I love the meaning behind it. I believe that's how it should be. And I wish that was how it could be. But this is real life. Greed and lust for power are real. They're big-time motivators and the ultimate intoxicants. They actually won this time, needing to cheat to do so, but it helped them steal a win. And if we don't fight on those terms, we are simply kidding ourselves. And they will win again. As long as we face adversaries with this agenda, we simply cannot continue "being nice." Or "playing by the rules." When the other side basically says "Screw the rules!" then we're the ones who'll get screwed.

I wish it weren't this way! I wish both sides played fair. Because our side certainly seems to prefer it that way. But it takes two. And the other side would rather win. By any means necessary. At some point, Democrats really do have to stop playing nice.

Here's the deal... [View all] SHRED Dec 2016 OP
"When they go low, we go high." CrispyQ Dec 2016 #1
Lemme know how that works out for ya Nwgirl503 Dec 2016 #5
Welcome to U, Nwgirl503. calimary Dec 2016 #19
Me too Nwgirl503 Dec 2016 #24
I agree zippythepinhead Dec 2016 #26
I think the biggest failure of the Dems has been getting out the facts. Dark n Stormy Knight Dec 2016 #31
Exactly.. coco22 Dec 2016 #34
Welcome to DU, to you, too, coco22! calimary Dec 2016 #36
I faintly remember this Dean and Roemer thing but.. coco22 Dec 2016 #37
I've already seen how that works out. CrispyQ Dec 2016 #30
My reply was a proverbial you Nwgirl503 Dec 2016 #32
And I can be dense. CrispyQ Dec 2016 #38
Yes, taking the high road elmac Dec 2016 #9
Or the movie Idiocracy Nwgirl503 Dec 2016 #10
Another movie that will likely stun you is "Network." calimary Dec 2016 #20
THIS! n/t bear425 Dec 2016 #29
littlemissmartypants Dec 2016 #33
So damn true ALBliberal Dec 2016 #15
True That Martin Eden Dec 2016 #2
Yep standingtall Dec 2016 #3
Coming away after watching the presser. He left the choice to Congress. Ellipsis Dec 2016 #4
That was painful to watch tavalon Dec 2016 #8
He chose his words carefully... he made me proud. Ellipsis Dec 2016 #14
because AlexSFCA Dec 2016 #6
'Stronger'? 'Psychopathically criminal authoritarian', maybe. byronius Dec 2016 #7
We need to shut them down instead. Quanta Dec 2016 #11
Welcome to DU, Quanta! secondwind Dec 2016 #12
probably the single most frustrating thing about our party of forward thinkers lastone Dec 2016 #13
At the risk of being removed I'll say I do not understand why the DNC and all the rest Ford_Prefect Dec 2016 #16
Agreed...It's frightening SHRED Dec 2016 #17
Perhaps it could be because of Donna Brazile? calimary Dec 2016 #21
+1 uponit7771 Dec 2016 #28
Damn right TheDemsshouldhireme Dec 2016 #18
2650 Wisconsin Ave Washington, DC 20007 fleabiscuit Dec 2016 #22
Should go Viral TheDemsshouldhireme Dec 2016 #23
Yeah we're gonna have to stop placing so much stock on decorum after a year like this.. JHan Dec 2016 #35
pretty much. democrats are completely useless. nt TheFrenchRazor Dec 2016 #25
+1 uponit7771 Dec 2016 #27
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