The derangement batmobile is now cruising at supersonic speed, with a number of Rec Listed diaries within two days informing us that (a)Barack Obama is an evil plutocrat laughing maniacally from his lair as he sneers at America's poor while tenting his fingers and saying "exxxxxcellent," (b)democracy is finished and voting is futile, (c)we will always lose no matter what, (d)Democrats and Republicans are the same, (e)the New World Order is taking over and we must cower in fear Alex Jones-style, and (f)Barack Obama is Barry Goldwater (the guy who proposed nuking Vietnam, leaving the UN, and eliminating most of the federal government) - and that's just the heinous Grima Wormtongue horseshit I've run into at the top of the charts when I could stomach to look at it.
What prompted this avalanche of schizophrenic delusions and Big Lies? An ill-conceived proposal regarding calculation of the Consumer Price Index that will never be adopted because it's tied to progressive tax increases, and a report that sale of a public energy utility benefiting less than 3% of the country might be one of the options under consideration for deficit reduction. And what about the other 99% of the 2014 White House federal budget proposal that's either unobjectionable or positive? Crickets. Dead silence. If it doesn't fit the psychotic fauxtrage narrative, it doesn't exist.
I signed the petition for the White House to reconsider its support for Chained CPI, because I recognize it's a poor strategic move even as a bargaining chip that will never actually happen, but unlike some people I'm not having paranoia orgasms and pretending I'm fighting the Alamo against my own Party. What part of will not happen do you not understand? I'm on Social Security disability, so I have as much to lose as anyone else possibly could, so why the hell are people whose interest is purely ideological pretending they're Storming the Bastille by spewing bannable CTs, fatalistic fantasies of doom, and deranged personal defamation against our own people over this? Here is the actual White House budget proposal - feel free to review and analyze it yourselves instead of relying on commentators who butter their bread with FUD:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/...
Can you imagine how such a mentality would have reacted to the budget proposals of previous Democratic Presidents? If one - just one - thing in them could be interpreted as in any way signaling a willingness to compromise on any tenet of successful progressive programs, even if there was zero chance of such compromises actually occurring? Well, let's take a stroll down memory lane about the things that two of the greatest Democratic Presidents actually did - not just idly proposed as a bargaining strategy, however ill-conceived - without being castigated as treacherous pit-vipers by anyone but the looniest, most impotent fringe:
1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt himself drastically scaled back his own New Deal in 1937 precisely because it had worked so well, and so the logic went that not all of it was needed anymore. And this at a time when there was still suffering all across America that makes today's problems look trivial by comparison. Heartless capitalist betrayer! Plutocrat! Liar! All he would have needed was a white cat and a swivel put on his wheelchair to complete the picture of evillllll, right? Keep that fact in mind the next time you're listening to the batmobile accuse Obama of betraying the New Deal over a change to the Consumer Price Index calculation that will never happen: The President who rolled back the New Deal the greatest extent ever was the one who created it.
2. John F. Kennedy passed the most massive tax cuts for the rich and businesses in history up to that point - cuts that were not exceeded until the Reagan administration, and have not been exceeded again. But because it was done from the lofty perch of New Deal tax rates, barely anyone noticed. Anyone want to compare JFK to Herbert Hoover or Barry Goldwater, or does that nutbar logic only apply to Barack Obama?
So what do we learn from these facts? That Democrats are scum, democracy is futile, and we should all retreat to survivalist compounds and await the black helicopters? Uh, no, Derp. It's that when you judge Presidents you have to judge them in the context of the office and its history, not a Borderline Personality Disorder attitude that blows up any disagreement whatsoever into a fucking jihad, and any disappointment with individual leaders into a bigoted alternate universe where these individuals are psychopathic villains of whom every possible negative thing is true at all times, even when they're mutually exclusive.
Moreover, every word that is wasted personally defaming Barack Obama and spreading bannable CTs about this administration and the Democratic Party is a word that's not being used to attack the Republican Party - the explicit institutionalization of literal evil, corruption, and psychopathy, and whose ongoing power over federal institutions is the single, overwhelming reason for every problem this nation faces. "By their works you shall know them," and what I'm seeing from the batmobile is unhinged hate against Democrats with barely a peep about Republicans other than to promote the Big Lie that the difference is insignificant, or even brazenly spewing Paulite libertarian ideology that the GOP is more progressive. It would be hard to be more plainly on the other side than that without putting on a tricorner hat and compulsively using the President's middle name in referring to him.
So, if it's a choice between the progressive President who gave us nationwide construction projects, huge investments in scientific research, unprecedented clean energy initiatives, the end of the Iraq War, helping the Libyan people free themselves without entangling us in another war, setting a withdrawal date on Afghanistan, letting gays serve openly in the military, the most massive expansion in healthcare since the birth of Medicare, cuts in nuclear weapons, two liberal Supreme Court Justices, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, tax increases on the rich, increased fuel efficiency standards, strong support of pro-labor union and civil rights legislation, strong support for gun control measures, and too many other accomplishments and impeccably moral positions than could be stuffed into a phone book...
If it's a choice between continuing to hold that President to be one of us, and a committed, courageous ally of the progressive cause, or holding that President to be Ming the Merciless, and a Dick Cheney clone nefariously plotting the destruction of the American middle-class and institution of corporate dictatorship...
If it's a choice between believing that that President is a decent person and a moral human being, or that he is a thieving psychopath just because I disagree with a few paragraphs (that will never become law) from a 244-page budget proposal covering a multi-trillion-dollar budget while voices that spew Big Lies and unhinged Conspiracy Theories about everybody and everything who even looks at them cross-eyed are "heroic defenders of the light of liberalism and justice," well then...I guess I'm just some hero-worshiping fool, and the flop-sweat-drenched McCarthyite tirades of those who think the Democratic Party is the Enemy are really thoughtful words of wisdom that bear emulation by the rest of us.
Put the batmobile in park and step away from the Conspiracy Theories. There is one, and only one way that we are going to make any kind of legislative progress going forward, and that is to return the House of Representatives to Democratic control in 2014. I agree that the President miscalculated by allowing the GOP to attack him from the left on this, and unlike some, I will not contribute to the damage of that miscalculation by being the author of the very anti-Obama narratives they will undoubtedly use against us.
Rather, because our ability to do anything is 100% tied to retaking the House and keeping the Senate, and our ability to do that is strongly tied to the President, I will strive to compensate for his miscalculation by promoting the real narrative: That the one and only scenario in which essential programs are secure is one where the Republicans are no longer in a position to make demands. This is our task.
4:57 AM PT: Apparently the claim that the President's CPI proposal is "unprecedented" is crap - Jimmy Carter did pretty much the same thing. And unlike this proposal, which has virtually no chance of passing, Carter actually did enact cuts. Source:
http://current.com/...
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