The more you hold your nose, the more you’re killing the oxygen to your brain. Our austere, sober leadership in the DNC/DLC has been holding their noses for over 20 years now. That’s a lot of missing fucking oxygen. There are people in this party that will tell you with a straight face that it doesn’t fucking matter how many of your morals you have to compromise, or how many crooked, psychotic people you have to cozy up to as long as we win.
Who the fuck needs a soul when you can eke out a win? The people that are rigging this system aren’t just patriots, they’re the New England Patriots. Every single time I see one of these placid, smug assholes crowing over the victory (or inevitable victory) of an elite, moneyed, bought and paid for candidate, I watch one more piece of what inspired us to get involved in politics dragged through the living room and drowned in Grover Norquist’s bathtub. Bend to the fucking will of the machine or die. And if you’re too stubborn to die, they’ll make for gawddamn sure you’re so marginalized that relative obscurity will seem like a never-ending orgasm.
The argument that, “well, yeah, we’re corrupt as fuck and don’t care about you, but we care just enough about you to keep you voting for slightly less crazy” is fucking disgusting. What’s even more disgusting is that it works. Given the choice between abject lunacy and abject lunacy peppered with tiny consolation prizes, we hold our fucking noses and dig through the bag of literal shit to find the candy and hope against hope that they left it in the wrapper. This time.
This is a comment from someone who says they work for the DNC:
“If Sanders wins the nomination you’re gonna need me to help put him in the White House. And plenty of people like me. I don’t care what you think about my “outlook.” I care about what bills we’ve passed, what policy we’ve put in place, and what we’re going to do next and how we’ll get it. And that’s what you damn sure better care about if you’re serious. If you want the country you can have it. But it doesn’t come for free. You have to take it from us first AND THEN the GOP. “
What bills? What policy? Watered down kickbacks to their owners? That’s the American Dream. And we have to “take it from them” first. That’s a fucking Democrat telling you that you don’t fucking matter- and that you won’t matter until you either fall the fuck in step or wrench “control” out of their cold, dead hands. No principles. No qualms waving a lordly hand in dismissal. Power. That’s all that matters. Moving further and further to the right means nothing. Endless war means nothing. Just fucking give me my money and let these peasants think they’re doing something. While you’re at it, let’s hold a primary for shits n’ giggles.
You wanna talk about privilege? There’s your fucking privilege.
