The president's interview with funnyman Stewart left a bad taste in my mouth. I haven't been blogging here for a long while because so much of the discussion here is totally futile, and leaves me unengaged. Here's my context: I voted for Obama, gave him money, and have been less than underwhelmed. Rather I'm outraged that I fell for his rouse. Now, I'm down with Chris Hedges, when he says that the president is "a legitimate source of public ridicule." Indeed,
every television clip of Barack Obama is so palpably pathetic.
So I'm keeping this short and sweet, and you can call me a troll or whatever ... but I am not voting this November for any democrats, because they are the party of corporate business as usual. And if you haven't seen that in the last two years of the Obama Administration, then you are blind. More below.
UPDATE: It's really useless and a waste of everyone's time to call me an "asshole" or a "troll." It further proves that the level of discussion at this site has plunged.
I'd be interested in a Daily Kos for true progressives, not just brown-nosers for the pro-corporate Democratic Party establishment.
UPDATE II: It's funny to me that without any sense-making argument, so many comments fall into the insult category. One that wasn't insulting instead accused me of facilitating a Republican victory, since that would continue Bush economics. My response is that President Obama's own OMB director Peter Orzag has already come out for Bush economics, and I won't be a bit surprised when Obama extends the vile giveaway to the superich. If you'll be surprised, then I am sorry for you.
UPDATE III: Does it bother anyone here as much as it bothers me that we will be MANDATED to buy OVERPRICED insurance that is marked up to FATTEN THE WALLET of a robber-barron health care CEO? I for one didn't have that in my 90 percent column. Perhaps those calling me names did. If you wanted this, speak up and SAY WHY!
UPDATE IV: In response to a thoughtful commenter: I will not be voting at all this Nov. This is because I have looked over the issues pages on the web sites of the Dem candidates here in Kansas and find them wanting. They are all bluedog wannabe GOP pro-business losers. If there were any liberals running, I'd bother to vote. However, like Hedges cited above, I fear that electoral politics are no longer a venue for achieving even incremental change.
UPDATE V: In my opinion, this site is faltering because it is beholden to the media/dem status quo for relevance — yet nothing going on here is in reality relevant to real politics. A better dKos needs to have a "big tent" strategy that makes room for actual progressives who don't subvert their ideals to a political party. That means naderites, socialists, anarchists, and the rest of the rabble.
In other words, the users/runners of dKos possess a false sense of relevance insofar as influencing the US power structure. But really, nothing going on in this forum the least bit relevant or influential. But, kudos for playing.
At least, a truly progressive site would be relevant to the users, in terms of building alternative communities and developing political philosophies useful for survival a collapsing democratic empire as it stumbles towards corporate fascism. In other words, we should all be studying the Tarnac 9, Hedges,etc., and taking it from there.
UPDATE VI: This could be my last update, friends. Unbeknown to me, and I've been blogging here for years (check out my user ID), I'm told that I'm in danger of triggering the dKos "autoban." Now, this is a perfect example of a non-democratic totalitarian shutdown of what right now is the diary with the most thought-provoking, interesting topic on the site. This diary has more comments than any other. So -- QUICK -- ban it. It might awaken a few sheeple.