Yeah, I hold a grudge. Forever sometimes. And along with this particular grudge comes nothing but disgust and derision for old Markie Moosetits and the rest of his crew. I always found it funny that I can pay dues, vote in polls, sign their petitions, but I can't put in my 2 cents because I was right and they were full of shit about 1) Barack Obama; 2) the boondoggle called the 'Affordable' Care Act; 3) the lousy quality of representation that we get out of our 'representatives' who decided send nurses and doctors to jail; and, 4) that those types of 'representatives' are not real Democrats and should not be rewarded with our votes. (Why deliberately vote for and pay someone to screw you?) So you can see where something like this just tickled the shit out of me:

Requiem for a Lightweight
Markos Moulitsas was once the face of American progressivism. That shouldn't happen again

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And yet. Two months out from the shock demolition of the Democratic Party, the most faithful acolytes are not getting it. Someone like Moulitsas, an irrelevancy himself, can only be a real, pressing threat when marching in lockstep with the rest of a vast zombie horde — a sea of dead flesh which somehow is still upright, clogging the highways, trapping those still alive and trying to break out, in a waking nightmare without end. It is the only way of explaining a Democratic Party, from Markos Moulitsas to Cory Booker to Rahm Emanuel, cheering the demise of decent health care as a going concern for many Americans.

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Like the official introduction of sushi as a Sizzler salad bar item, Moulitsas’s mainstream inclusion as a pundit in the those years was a grasping, clumsy attempt by corporate forces to keep up with the times. That in all of his appearances, Moulitsas inevitably resembled a teacup poodle, yapping endlessly at passing mailmen, was immaterial. He had tapped into something new, something fresh. This man blogged. This man blogged, online — on the internet.

It was the right time and place to be writing online. Kos, along with a lot of other people, was well positioned in the early 2000s to exploit an emerging technology that the big boys didn’t quite understand yet. It’s easy to forget now, when the president-elect can liquify share prices with a pissy tweet, that political blogging was once a novelty. Within a few years of blogging’s established viability, it was ubiquitous enough for everyone to be doing it, such that by the time Obama came along, even fameballs like Pat Sajak were blogging about politics (in a welter of truly diseased arch-right screeds that I of course highly recommend reading).

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Kos’s schtick was always as a tough guy, a truth-teller with little regard for the niceties of most liberals. While he wasn’t very good at it, at least he tried. His 2010 book, American Taliban, a naked attempt to ape the polemical bestseller style of a Jonah Goldberg or Ann Coulter, was very dumb, but with its titular thesis in the hands of a more fearsome writer, might’ve gotten at some dark truths.

They view themselves as ardent liberals who extracted real concessions from the Democratic Party, rendering the GOP impotent, as recounted in a 2014 victory lap which seems unhinged the more you think about it. Even at their most resolute, norms regarding illegal warfare, addictive militarism, free-market greed, and vicious social conservatism were more or less accepted by Netroots liberals as unimpeachable political realities to be snaked around rather than confronted head-on.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/markos-moulitsas-kos-democrats-clinto...

Yep, I'm a petty geriatric grudge holding TOP hating old white female PROGRESSIVE. And as far as I'm concerned this article is dead on. I just figured some of you guys might find it amusing as well.

EDIT: put space between 'a' and 'Lightweight'
EDIT EDIT: fixed a misplaced 'a'
EDIT EDIT EDIT: fixed Requiem. I thought I fixed ion the original OP. Guess not,