Midnight Meme Of The Day!
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The first Democratic Party debates are hours away, Wednesday and Thursday evenings to be more precise. I know that I'm not the only one who is hoping for serious discussions of issues. I'm also not the only one who is hoping that the various candidates cease with the usual patronizing of voters but I also know that the past is prologue and we're talking about politicians. I'm also hoping that the bullshit meter attached to my TV won't go up in a cloud of smoke. At least I can risk the assumption that the candidates won't spend the valuable time discussing hand and penis size like Republicans do; when they're not falling all over themselves to be the one that mentions love of Ronald Reagan and/or God the most times.
Tonight's meme gets to an awful truth: Reagan's Attorney General (among other things) Ed Meese once infamously said "We will turn this country so far to the right, you won't recognize it." He and his fellow Republican goons did just that. In fact, the Republican Party of Reagan's day made Nixon look almost liberal by comparison and it has only gotten worse since then, as the Republican Party has gone full-blown Boys From Brazil. The Democratic Party? Well, meet the new 1980 Republican Party. They've moved so far to the right in order to appease the Republicans that they are now the party that Reagan and Nixon would have to sign up with if they wanted to run for president now and join the Democratic debates this week. Perspective: This is how it is in 2019. I said the same thing here back in 2004 and every year since then. Go ahead Democrats. Shock me. Shock me by actually being Democrats rather than Republican-lite, or worse. My wife has the chicken wire up in place in front of the TV.
Labels: Democratic debates, memes, Noam Chomsky, Republican wing of the Democratic Party
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 12:01 AM
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I don't plan on watching the "debates". I know I will only get infuriated over the lies and the blatant corporatism being expressed. I'm hoping that those who shouldn't be in this race decide that maybe running for the Senate instead isn't such a bad idea after all (Lookin' at you, Beto!).
The sad fact is that as the Republican Party has gotten crazier and crazier as far as who can hold office, people who could have run as moderate and reasonable Republicans have instead moved over to the Democratic Party. This is awful for two reasons: [1] the presence of so many DINO's makes progressive legislation difficult for Dems to pass [2] the moderates giving up on their own party lets the Republicans slide further and further along the path of ideological incoherence and nihilism (with, of course, a completely coherent belief and devotion to vote suppression and other methods to maintain electoral dominance despite their being wholly out of touch with anything a majority of the country actually wants).
"The Democratic Party? Well, meet the new 1980 Republican Party. They've moved so far to the right in order to appease the Republicans that they are now the party that Reagan and Nixon would have to sign up with if they wanted to run for president now and join the Democratic debates this week. Perspective: This is how it is in 2019. I said the same thing here back in 2004 and every year since then."
...um... noah... it seems you've had your epiphany. Is a change for this site to advocating for a truly left movement nigh? if not... why? How can someone write those truthful sentences yet NOT?
BTW: they didn't become the 1980 fascist party (that's what the republicans were in 1980) in 1982 (!!) to appease the republicans. They did it to serve/appease/appeal to corporations and the very rich for donations. Appeasing the other political party a little further to their right (to demonstrate their fealty to both party's common donor base) is only part of the dynamic.
Today, Nixon would be far too liberal to be a democrap and Reagan would be on the far left of the democrap party.
follow the money.
In addition, not to be pedantic in pointing out that Chomsky was wrong... but Bernie did endorse $hillbillary. That act totally repudiated everything he had said he believed in. So, his principles ARE negotiable.
Jazz, progressive lege is impossible, true. Not because the democrap party is lousy with former republicans, but because the democrap party serves only the interests of its donors and those donors will not abide progressivism.
always remember the advice of 'deep throat': "follow the money".
the former republicans are there because they are now not welcome in the NAZI party.
By the same token, better people like Kucinich, Feyngold, Grayson and many others are now unelectable and not welcome in the democrap party (except to act as sheepdogs for the REALLY dumb altruists).
Anonymous@6:21 am - Chomsky's stance has always been that given the choice between a horrible Republican and a merely bad Democrat, voters should go with the Democrat - I know for many, that rationalization doesn't work, as it means the Dems can then count on getting votes as the (sometimes considerably, sometimes not) lesser of two evils. I think Bernie's great and certainly don't hold that him supporting Clinton was a fundamentally wrong move, even if I personally chose not to vote for her. My state went for HRC by a pretty considerable margin (advance polling data proved correct) - if I lived in a state where the race was tighter, I probably would have held my nose and voted for her.
then, Jazz, you are also part of the problem.
if you allow fear or hate or some other limbic impulse to cause you to reject your principles, presuming they are closely held, then you become the very problem that you seem to understand as our inevitable undoing.
The fact that Bernie did endorse $hillbillary proves to me that he, too, is an integral part of that problem.
You and Bernie and 65 million others guarantee that nothing can ever improve in this shithole... causing it to only get worse a tiny bit slower.
Then I guess Noam Chomsky is part of the problem too? Jeezus H. Christmas. Bernie Sanders doesn't pass your smell test? I look forward to ignoring anything further you have to say when I post here.
Please do. And, yes, Chomsky and bill maher and Michael Moore and soooo many others are all part of the problem.
FTR: the problem is that voters blithely accept a far right fascist party as the only possible alternative to naziism. Thus, all elections since 1982 have been a choice between Nazis and fascists. And you are all in on fascists?
Me? I want GOOD, not just a teensy bit less Nazified.
6:21, if your reading comprehension was any good, you would have understood from the last sentence that you quoted that Noah had his epiphany at least by 2004. I bet from other things he's written over the years that his epiphany came long before that. What we await is YOUR epiphany that you are an overly self-centered blowhard.
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