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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPissed. How the Rahm Emmanual/DLC "Liberals are F#cking retarded" attitude may cost us the election
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So, I'm trying to get people to vote on Facebook and I get this:
"i even know a few who are much more radically left than me who are voting for romney, with the idea that at least then perhaps folks will finally start to fight back. i won't go that far but i do see their point."
Then I get a link to this Al Jazeera op-ed:
The right to indefinitely detain citizens without trial, classified kill-lists and "disposition matrices", a fast-expanding fleet of legally-unaccountable aerial drones, and the presumptive right to kill American citizens without due process - all these sweeping expansions of executive power are the legacy of four years of Barack Obama's presidency and of themselves represent a new era in the power of the American government over its citizenry.
Never before has an American president asserted their ability to act as judge, jury and executioner towards their own citizens, a power which Barack Obama claimed for the executive branch in killing the New Mexico-born fundamentalist preacher Anwar Al-Awlaki in a drone strike - followed by his 16 year-old son two weeks later.
The passage of the National Defense Authorisation Act (NDAA) provides the President with the ability to place Americans under indefinite military detention without trial or even the provision of evidence; a power which extends to citizens abroad as well as to those on US soil. Such concepts seem utterly otherworldly to most Americans, especially given their origination from a liberal president who had been elected in large part as a response to the perceived belligerence and militarism of George W Bush.
With Obama facing a tight re-election battle with Mitt Romney, even his supporters - who would normally express alarm at these actions - are reticent to criticise him for fear of damaging his chances and empowering his Republican challenger. " http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/10/20121029155126349265.html
The problem is the think tank brainiacs don't understand that some people are forced to vote their conscience, and don't think like they do.
I don't want to hear how wrong or stupid my friends are - I want you to understand how wrong it is to treat our base with contempt and disrespect.
Robb
(39,665 posts)Laughable.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)DemocratsForProgress
(545 posts)Sure thing, fella.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)good luck idiot
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)LYING. Of course, THEY don't think it's them. To them a radical leftist voting for Romney is perfectly plausible.
As is his ever changing position on just about *ANYTHING*
Kaleva
(36,312 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,740 posts)This is just silly, and not in a good way.
Kaleva
(36,312 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,740 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)but hey, the dumbasses will attempt anything. Ooops.... sorry admins, you can't keep the trolls out, so we must break rules.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)I know you don't want to hear it but there it is. We're not going to lose and we're certainly not going to lose because liberals are going to vote for Romney.
This is ludicrous.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Look closer to home, bub. That's whack.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)The extreme leftists unhappy with Rahm/DLC/etc are voting for Jill Stein and are very small in number. Probably smaller percentage than the RWers that will vote Ron Paul or the Bible-thumpers that will write-in Jesus.
Bucky
(54,027 posts)Hey, that's kinda fun to say.
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)from the left.
You didn't get it directly, but some one else you know on FB relayed this scary notion.
Your friend is not the stupid one ... they seem to be saying they would NOT follow the lead of the other, the non-specified super liberal who plans to send a message.
And you take that 3rd hand input to voice your own concern with the "think tank Brainiacs".
Ok.
FSogol
(45,491 posts)gkhouston
(21,642 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Good to see that the Rahm bashing here at DU is still in vogue.
Strike a pose!
Vogue, vogue, vogue!
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)a few months worth of exposure to the greedy, lying sack of 1% monkeyshit that is Willard Romney will certainly bring their votes back home to the President. Yeesh.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)Because the "fucking retarded" remark (which was about a specific tactic of people on the left running TV ads against Democrats, let's remember) doesn't have anything to to with that Al Jazeera op-ed; and the friends of your friend who want people to 'fight back' after they vote Romney in are nothing to do with it either. They just seem to be anarchists who want a really bad government before a revolution.
So we're left with your final paragraph, which seems to be saying your friends are still bearing a grudge from 3 years ago about a reaction to anti-Democratic ads, and because their poor hurt feelings are so bad, they'll not vote for Obama. Your friends are being childish, I think - nothing to do with their consciences.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)The neo-con light agenda because the far left has nowhere else to go.
This race is to tight to be alienating the left.
(Read the Al Jazeera commentary)
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)bluestate10
(10,942 posts)developed limited mental capacity due to sickness or injury. Liberal must realize that a win by Romney kills any hope that Liberals have for any progress for their lifetimes and the lifetimes of their children. That last sentence is a fact.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)you need us.
treestar
(82,383 posts)I hope that is a small, small minority. What horrible people. They aren't the base of any reasonable party.
And to actually vote for Rmoney? Vote for the Greens or something like that but to actually vote for Rmoney just to cause widespread suffering is just plain evil.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)Ah, yes. Of course.
Who do you think the Base is???
You are neither wrong OR stupid.
Just another human in love with their own opinion.
As though it were the unsullied truth.
JI7
(89,252 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)I guess we've found our 'baggers'. Enjoy your company.