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People are running around like chicken little squawking about how there’s a great schism on the left brewing, and how we need to stick together. Fuck that shit. Why should I continue to vote for candidates who push conservative agendas and throw the causes I care about under the bus just because they have a D next to their name? Why should I or anyone else left of center continue to vote for republican-lite?
We do need a schism to rid ourselves of opportunistic hacks like Obama and Rahm Emanuel who sell out the middle class to their corporate masters ever chance they get. When Stephanie Miller and other professional Obama apologists harp on how we have to be good little Eichmann and vote for the establish ,or the bad old republicans will win seats in the midterm, it makes me sick.
The reason things have gotten this bad is precisely because we keep putting up candidates who capitulate to the crazies on the right at the first whiff of trouble. People bring up the civil rights movement as an example of accepting the lesser of two evils, yet fail to realize the civil rights movement didn’t begin in the 60s. It was the result of decades of work that kept pushing to change the status quo. Did Fredrick Douglas or Sojourner Truth just accept what the politicians of their day were willing to do to advance their causes? Hell
no! They pushed them to do what was right even though it wasn’t politically convenient or viable.
So why then should we lay down and continue to let the democratic establishment screw us? Especially when they then tell us, “You’re welcome, because the republicans wouldn’t have used lube.” I’d rather put my time and money towards candidates who will consistently fight for progressive causes, especially when it’s politically inconvenient, not just give lip service to them during campaign speeches.
If republicans get in office I’m willing to let that happen, so that in the long run a real liberal third party is realized. One that will fight for the goals of the common people and not the highest bidder. Call me an idealist all you want. I’m thinking about the end game twenty, thirty years out.
The two party system is broken beyond repair ,so when it finally collapses I’d rather have one to replace it than nothing at all. Yes comprise is a required part of governance but that does not mean stabbing your constitutes in the back or not having any convictions so you can crow about fake bipartisan that results in the most tepid legislation. So let the punches fly, an occasional revolution is a good thing.