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In reply to the discussion: I've, and most of us who have been here for quite sometime realize one thing........ [View all]JHan
(10,173 posts)as if it's difficult to understand...
There seems to be a real lack of awareness of the traps that are set for liberals such as:
It is in the GOP's interest to equivocate corporate hegemony with Democrats because if you represent the powerful, as the GOP do, it is in your interest to persuade the electorate that your opponents are just as bad as you are - "Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee"? Yeah the GOP love that shit because their value systems have little to do with utilizing tools of the federal government to to create fairer outcomes and they don't care about enfranchisement for all. It is in the GOP's interest to see Liberals fractured because suppressing votes become easier that way.
It is also in their interests to see Democrats lose touch with moderates of different stripes on the left and the party swerve so much to the left, we can't make a dent incrementally in red districts and lose elections. And I say this as someone who has some pretty radical liberal ideas of my own.
It is in the GOP's interest that Liberals attack effective Democratic Leaders and that Liberals buy into the negative framing of the Democratic Party. A while ago Michael Steele admitted to Joy Reid he had no idea his demonization of Nancy Pelosi would catch fire on the left, but hell it did - and Michael focused on her because they wanted to retake the HOUSE and he didn't care if they lied to do it.
It is also in the GOP's interest to have leftists create a fuss about employees of powerful banks and corporations donating to Democrats - no matter the position of employees in these organizations- because a starved DNC and DCCC means Democrats can't effectively compete in a corrupt system run by money - until we have the perfect solution of public funding of elections and a reverse of citizens united we're gonna have to be a lot more pragmatic than the purists would like.
If the GOP gain anymore ground, we're absolutely and totally fucked and the purists will be fucked also. Like it or not, the imperfect Democratic Party is the only institution standing in the way of the GOP getting all they want.
We have to get our act the fuck together.