You Better Learn It Fast, You Better Learn It Young
I’ve seen 30 years of Democratic establishment contempt for progressives, I’ve seen their seven stages of reactionary attacks too many times, I’ve seen the condescension and the slander and the scorched earth. I’ve heard their endless excuses for enabling evil, their immoral pandering to the Powers-That-Be, their strident demands for party loyalty while progressive values burn in the bonfires of the Beltway and the Four Horsemen of Triangulation saddle up for yet another nationwide ride.
We've heard all of their promises. Someday, if you elect enough of us, we'll fight for economic justice. Someday, if we have enough votes, we'll take on the NRA. Someday, if the Republicans let us, we'll cut military spending by 1 or maybe even 2 percent. Someday, if we have 98 seats in the Senate and 430 in the House, we'll overturn Citizens United. Someday . . . someday . . . someday . . .
Well I'm here to tell you now,
Each and every mother's son,
You better learn it fast,
You better learn it young,
That someday never comes . . .
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I’ve seen all I need to see from the Democratic establishment and heard all I need to hear.
I will not vote for Hillary.
No progressive should vote for Hillary.
To hell with Hillary.
And to hell with Daily Kos. It's dark over there on the other side of the Border of Reality and it's getting darker, the authoritarian bullshit is deep and it's getting deeper, the cold rain of hypocrisy is falling hard there and it's going to fall harder.
I won't miss that fucking place.
Good riddance to that graveyard of DNC talking points they call a front page, good riddance to the "crashing the gates" posturing, good riddance to the "more and better Democrats" propaganda, good riddance to all the garbage about Hillary “getting things done”, good riddance to the Hillary diary smoke and the Hillary diary mirrors and that Hillary News & Views Hotel where all the hypocrites hang out.
You've seen it. I've seen it. We've all seen it. The fingers of Dkos Hillbots are always on the trigger, they fire and reload, fire and reload, fire and reload. If you support Bernie you're a target, if you tell the truth about Hillary you're a target, if you breathe a word about paid shills you're a target, if you don't salute the math every 5 minutes you're a target, if any Hillbot anywhere in that free-fire zone for DNC drones says you're a target, you're a target.
Good riddance to it.
Good riddance to all of it.
While those Hillary hacks are hissing the lyrics of the same old triangulation tunes Kos the DNC deejay keeps cranking up on his 8-Track player, we'll be here rocking in the free world . . .
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Little Markos....that f'n guy....
People have literally lived and died on TOP......the quilt making....the mourning of those who passed....the valiant struggles of ned lamont campaign, to name just one....
I saw the comment here yesterday about how Kos rolled in over 400k from Dem establishment off the site.
He didn't build that site. The community did. And those who contributed the least? they're the first to say GTFO.
funny how earlier this year, for the first time in many months, I found the time to write a few diaries. They hit rec list and community spotlight, meaning that someone found them moderately interesting.
less than two months later, me and my fellow berners are Public Enemy #1.
to echo what one of the ladies posted here yesterday--and it's something that i believe more and more every year that i live in America--- this is just a nasty and petty country.
sometimes i think to myself the liberals and conservatives in this country deserve each other. But then I immediately think of all the soulful progressives I met in my life......no, they don't deserve this toxic culture. I don't deserve it. YOU don't deserve it.
TOP can't be reformed. I just wish I knew years ago how fake and spineless so many of those 'liberals' were.
did 9 months in California prison, because Neoliberal Democrats and GOP maggots work together to profit off the drug war
And you did.
I agree with every word, both times.
When it's worth saying, it's worth saying again.
Thank you for reading my essay and commenting, bikingforkarma.
I knew from the title
that I was likely to agree with what you had to say.
"Four Horsemen of Triangulation" is well said.
I'm getting really tired of seeing them galloping all over the
place.
Thank you, esquimaux.
Rusty, I am so happy to find a site...
...where we can communicate again, like we did on DD. Glad we're here.
Hi dharmasyd!
It's great to see you here.
I think we've had an encounter or two on Facebook and Dkos, but you maybe didn't know I was Rusty from DD.
Excellent, Rusty!
That is spot-on and perfectly stated.
Look forward to seeing more of your writing!
Thank you, geebeebee.
Daily Lost
...tried to sign me back up for their daily Hellery cheerleading. I unsubscribed again. They did the same thing to my partner. I think they are aware of the loss of participants. Many refuse to be censored. I do.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
How do you unsubscibe?
I would be interested in that...
do you get emails from them?
If yes, follow the directions at the bottom. I'm not aware of any other way - unless you get some sort of a pop up.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
That's it
At the bottom of the email. I had unsubscribed on 3/15. Then yesterday suddenly here comes their recommended list. They are desperate I think.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Happened to me as well
When the emails resumed after I'd unsubscribed, I just again followed the directions at the bottom. Haven't heard from them again.
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
You post a diary
there titled "Delete My Fucking Diary, KOS!"
I kid, I kid.
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” - John Steinbeck
GBCW will do it. n/t
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Perfectly said
Welcome rusty! It's great to have you here
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
I love this place.
Feels like home.
Thank you, kharma.
This video is enough for me
Not that I didn't have plenty of other last straws to make me permanently swear off Hillary and the DNC--but look at how her supporters treat this Honduran protester, who is upset about the murder of Berta Caceres:
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My first activism was against US foreign policy in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Chile, and I can't express adequately my disgust at the spectacle of crowds of Democrats chanting their support for Hillary, who engineered a coup which resulted in a murderous regime taking over, in the face of this woman who is anguished b/c the US basically wrecked her country.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
It's hard to watch.
But every voter should see it, the ugly behavior of so many Hillary supporters has gotten no media attention at all.
Ugly isn't even enough of a word to describe it
The hateful, nasty, vituperative, petty, vindictive bullshit that has spewed forth from that orange cesspool in the last year or two is as vile as anything I have ever seen on forums like Yahoo or disqus. They're a joke at this point.
"Four Horsemen of Triangulation"
Love it.
"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy." --Albus Dumbledore
And we all know who signs their paychecks.
Thank you, No2wingnuts.
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