C'mon. Enough of this. It's great that Russ Feingold is getting back in the game and running for the Senate; I'd give him some money. But, for crying out loud, stop this bowing down to the entirely bankrupt idea of "bi-partisanship" which was a big feature of his video announcing he's in the race in 2016 for his old Senate seat.
Bi-partisanship is a false god. And I do not want to support people who are trying to prop up an entirely bad idea--an idea that means bad, bad, bad things for the country and the world.
Bi-partisanship conjurs up one of my favorite lines: "Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me" (which is how I came up with the title for this book)
"Bi-partisanship" is entirely aimed at propping up a failed economic system.
It means more Catfood Commissions that obsess about a phony deficit crisis.
It means more "chained CPIs", more corporate-written so-called "free trade" deals, more "New Way" or "Third Way" or "Get Me A Paid Gig Inside A Centrist Think Tank Way" calls for "reforming entitlements"...all of which is just bullshit language to say: lock in the class warfare, people should not get decent wages, a decent pension and have a fair living.
It means, in the name of "bi-partisanship", continuing a tax system that even in the mindlessly (and wrongly) praised "good economic times" of the Clinton Administration was far too low for rich people.
It means continuing, for the sake of "bi-partisanship", a mindless, draining, foolish foreign policy that funds bombers, advanced fighter planes, drones and corrupt dictatorships, not to mention the illegal and immoral occupation of Palestine.
At the end of the day, "bi-partisanship" is the view, espoused just the other day by the president, that, "We also have the best workers in the world. We also have the best businesses in the world. And when the playing field is level, nobody beats the United States of America. Nobody beats the United States of America"--as if this is some sports game in which we should be "the winning team", lording ourselves over the entire world.
I want to hear more Jimmy Malone:
I'm not advocating violence.
I am saying: take a hammer to the system. Break it apart. Don't call for more phony "bi-partisanship".
"Bi-partisanship" is Al Capone. It's a crook. You don't beat it by making nice to it.
You beat it by destroying it.
AND...I do believe that what we should say is: lots of people, across the political spectrum, are sick and tired of being robbed, and those are progressives AND **some** non-racist, rank-and-file self-identified "Tea-Party" people.
That's rank-and-file movements of people who want to take down the system.
NOT Bi-partisanship.