Did Bush/Cheney face accountability for war crimes and lying us into Iraq?
Did Democrats attack Conservative ideology as totally failed after the roaring 90's for the rich and Great Depression 2.0 for the rest of us in 2008?
No. Democrats would rather "look forward", which is a Carlinesque term for Cover Up.
No. Instead Democrats wanted to use those failed ideas themselves to build bipartisan support for FAILED ideas that have bankrupted America and our middle and working class.
Apparently, elections DO NOT MATTER, because we are getting ANOTHER unpopular war and we are NOT getting a popular program like the Public Option, and all because Corporations have overthrown our democracy. They didn't need bullets, dollars did the job better than bullets ever could.
To be blunt, Democrats are losing on purpose, and I have had enough of the spineless wusses who want to play pattycake with the lunatics who kick them in the balls. If you aren't fighting back you are THROWING THE FIGHT, and that goes for EVERY DEM, top to bottom.
Watching that gutless clown Harry Reid do everything in his power to avoid using a simple 50+1 majority to pass legislation in the Senate should be a stark wake the f up to every American who gives a shit about democracy, left or right. Instead, Reid has done everything in his power to cede power to the Lieberman's and Nelson's who do NOT represent the majority of the Democratic base. The purpose of this is to find an excuse for watering down legislation that could easily be passed without the input of people who do NOT want real reform to pass if it might threaten a single dollar of corporate profits. To ignore this is to be willfully blind.
During the Bush/Cheney junta I thought the Democrats were losing on purpose. Conservative policy represents the rich first and everyone else second, and being spineless minority was great cover for giving the Bushies and their Super Rich and Corporate cronies everything they wanted from War in Iraq to tax cuts for the rich to FISA immunity and bailouts. I thought electing a Democratic President and giving the Democrats HUGE majorities would change that. Apparently, I was wrong.
So Dick Cheney, Karl Rove remain at large, free to attack the current Administration as if their shit don't stink, and instead of saying that the Dems look sheepish and wait for the GOP to hold the Lucy/Charlie Brown football again. Good thing we didn't go after Bush/Cheney on day one, othwerwise the GOP would have really freaked out, or something.
By not attacking the GOP the way they would and have attacked us Democrats are letting them get away with it. They are covering it up. They are allowing themselves to take the blame for the Bush/Cheney legacy of FAIL, and it will cost them in future elections, but that is okay, because when the Democrats go back to being in the minority they won't need to make any more excuses about why they just don't have the votes we gave them in 2008.
If the Democratic Party is Moderate Conservative and dictated to by the Lieberman's and Stupak's and the GOP are batshit whackadoo insane Conservatives who are pro torture and anti empathy what choice is their in our Democracy? Can we even call it a Democracy anymore? If corporate Persons have more free speech than individuals because $ = speech and free markets are more important than free individuals how can we even pretend to live in a free and equal society? Is equality socialism? It is, if you are super rich and stand to lose something in the exchange.
If both parties in American politics lean right, how is there any choice? What is the difference? It's not like you are going to vote Republican if you are a pissed off liberal who can't take getting fucked over by your own party anymore, and the Dems know that, so the next best way for Democrats to help bring their Conservative colleagues back to power is by fucking their own Democratic base over so many times that we just give up and stay home. By pulling their punches, watering down reform with ideas that have already FAILed and covering up Conservative crimes and failure Democrats will take the blame for it at the ballot box, and they will totally deserve it. At that point, I will gladly burn this Big Tent with Joe LIEberman in it to the fucking ground, and I will gladly piss on it's ashes.
Does the Democratic Leadership think they can piss on the left that worked so hard for them over and over without running the risk that we would turn around, piss right back on them and then turn our backs on them for good? Of course they know that. Do they want that? It is looking more and more like it everyday.
With Democrats like these, who needs majorities?
And if Bush gets away with murder, torture and outsourcing America to the highest bidder, Democrats SHOULD take the blame for it, and that won't be Bush's fault either, so guess who will take the blame.
Democrats in office have a choice, fight back against the Conservatives who say that Dems = Hitler or lose to them. If they will NOT fight back, they are losing on purpose, and if Democrats are losing on purpose why the hell should liberals and progressives fight for them?
If Democrats lose to this insane crowd of teabagging sociopaths on the right they will have earned it in every way and I for one will be glad to have gotten rid of the rotten low hanging fruit in the Democratic party that enabled the Conservatives and helped them beat us. I am reminded of a line of verse in George Orwell's 1984, from which I take my pen name. I leave you with these words, and a song that sums things up best by Radiohead. I feel they sum up perfectly the kabuki I can not swallow anymore, but if you can swallow it, by all means, continue to cover your ears, eyes and nose all at once. I don't have enough hands to do that, and this bullshit stinks to high heaven in my nose, and I can not ignore it any longer. Can you?
Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me . . .
~ 1984, by George Orwell (Eric Blair)
Peace to you,
Jesse LaGreca@twitter.com
Crossposted at The Progressive Electorate.com and Docudharma.com