My little sheep is fighting for his life. A Babydoll Southdown, 24” tall, bred to be a sweet little pet. God, how I love him! and I fear losing him, because of that love and of how empty my life will be if he dies young from his current illness.
Hopefully, my sheep’s chances of survival are better than that of DailyKos. This used to be the center of a reality-based community, whose mission was to elect Democrats—you know, that conglomeration of moderate working people and liberal wealthy people and a great deal of the downtrodden.
But DailyKos has morphed into invective and bile, aimed at purging the impure among us. You see, even President Obama is a corporate sellout here on DK, and Hillary is a bunch of names my late mother would have been ashamed to hear me utter. And the majority of this bile is coming from a virulent subset of the DK universe who obviously weren’t standing next to me in my wheelchair in the pissing rain when I and other Democratic ‘sellouts’ faced down the nascent TeaParty in 2009, fighting for Obama’s ‘corporate sellout ACA’.
I wrote an angry letter to Obama about the lack of Public Option, but eventually realized that with Blanche Lincoln and Traitor-Joe Lieberman fighting for the insurance companies, that the ACA was a miracle; certainly a great start to providing healthcare to most Americans.
Now I am ashamed of that letter, because I see how hard change is to achieve. And something Bernie Sanders said at the last debate struck me as very true and very ironic. Hillary asked him how he was going to get, what is essentially the 2 largest tax increases in history, to pay for his free college and single payer plan, considering all the institutional resistance to change. Sanders said that ‘first we need campaign finance reform’, or else none of this change is possible.
So where is his big campaign finance reform plan? Why isn’t THAT the cornerstone of his ‘revolution’? If he admits he can’t get any of the rest of his plans passed w/out campaign finance reform, why isn’t THAT what he is promising? If elected, he’d get one big shot at passing something, and by his own admission, without campaign finance reform he would get nothing passed.
But he isn’t leading with campaign finance reform. He isn’t railing in front of college kids about his campaign finance reform platform. Because he has to promise them free stuff that, by his own admission, he can’t get passed, or else the ‘revolution’ fizzles.
So now I will get flamed by the purists for pointing out the obvious. Me, who sits in a wheelchair b/c I dared serve our Nation overseas, and have fought for the Democratic Party for 40 years. I saw discord on this website in 2008 when it was Obama versus Hillary [I supported Obama], but we didn’t HATE the other side. We never said the other side was EVIL.
Markos is letting this happen, and he isn’t sharing his reasons, but I sense that this broken thing shall never be made whole after such abuse and discord.
Now, I’m going back down the ramp and try to lift the spirits of my sick little sheep. HE doesn’t deserve to die from his illness.