Your MF Civic Responsibility, FCS
At the end of the day there will still be a "perennial battle".
Whoever you are, friend or foe, if you live in a democracy you have a dog in the race for as long as you exist and are capable of voting whether that means by mail or going to the polls and standing in line for hours. You should feel obliged to do so because that vote and the hours, days, and months of time spent getting others to do so, just in order to keep that vote is an uphill stone roll the likes of which have never been documented in any mythology. The real world consequences are vastly different than deciding what your major will be in school or how much money you should borrow.
On one hand you have the Democratic party. In national politics the DNC comprises the vast makeup of the very diverse and forward thinking group. Their policies include expanding the national healthcare public option to all through medicaid, amending and strengthening worker and consumer protections, making voting easier and more accessible, protecting legal immigration and providing asylum seekers a safe harbor as is advertised on our Statue of Liberty. Their policies also include things like strong environmental and industrial regulations and marriage equality, they do not mix religions and government, their position on dark money in politics is almost unanimously to end Citizens United (the decision that allows donors to hide large amounts of money funneled through pacs and orgs) The majority of representatives that speak for the Democratic party rate highly in fact checking sites and as such I have before stated that the facts appear to often lean left. Rightists and populist regressives have accused fact checking sites of political bias due to this mostly correct assumption that the factual sites are from center left to least bias.
The other side of the coin is the Republican party. They voted more than 70 times to take health care. They falsely tell their voters that they all need to vote because they claim, and have claimed since 2008, that associations like ACORN (a charity for the poor) steals their elections from them. This has resulted in a much-publicized coup. They rallied for Citizens United which was mostly paid for by the Koch Brothers and represented before SCOTUS by Pat Robertson’s anti ACLU attorney team led by Jay Sekulow who was also one of Trump’s impeachment defense attorneys. Their last speaker and the youngest ever, Paul Ryan, an Orwellian version of Alfred E Neuman was inducted because the current one, Kevin McCarthy, didn’t want to follow the act of the Republican speaker before Boehner and Ryan, Dennis Hastert… whom Tom Delay and 40 other Republicans wrote letters of defense for just in 2016 as he was being sentenced for molesting boys. Their other current teases for speaker include Jim Jordan who not only ignored the call for help from wrestlers under his supervision at Ohio State but also tampered with witnesses and Donald Trump who is under probably 7 or 8 different grand jury investigations. This party voted against giving service industry workers a god damned dime in 2020 when people had to be forced to lock down instead of just agreeing to do it because their maniacal leader told their entire frothmouthed compliant asshole base that fear about a pandemic was a liberal hoax, which killed hundreds of thousands of human beings. This party, the Republicans or GOP, represents death itself. When the first confederate flag in our nation’s history paraded through the Capitol building as these chickenshit do-nothing resource glut traitors cowered rightly, while they were being hunted by their own constituents, they made it maybe a couple weeks before trying to cover it up and call it a tour. When told that Trump’s pick for national security advisor was working unregistered as an agent of the Turkish state this party asked, “who unmasked!?” When told that Russia was working to attack our elections, their senate leader Mitch McConnell (that later enjoyed a Russian aluminum company’s investment in his district) said not to tell the public. This party merchandises Q at their CPAC functions. Their top candidate pardoned the men who perpetrated the Nisour square massacre and asked Russia to target Americans on live tv. When told that he was illegally withholding congressionally appropriated funds to help Ukraine BEFORE Russia brutally invaded, the Republican party decided that they wouldn’t see evidence. Their entire party received microtransactions that comprised millions of dollars from places in the world that fucking hate us, western democracy, and the cases have all either been pardoned or cajoled away by Barr. This last half decade has been so much worse than Nixon and Nixon era was fucking corrupt. Their zero-tolerance policy to separate families was enforced by Jeff Sessions and written by Nazi Steven Miller who emailed an extreme right publication to the state department to illustrate his policy concerns. Their elder leadership is frequently photographed among white supremacists and known international mobsters.
The Republican Party main players briefly tried to change their slogan to “anglo saxon values” not even long ago. Their spokespeople are still perpetuating the lies that our election was stolen.
No fucking more, this shit is dumb, there is not any resemblance between these two parties but you know who there is resemblance between? (rhetorical question).
I don’t want to talk about guillotines or gallows, I don’t want to hear about 1776 or revolutions, I don’t want to hear about how you want the state to control companies while you misuse the word oligarchy, or your super new definition of anarchy. No amount of pretending the primary is rigged or that you can protest by not voting is going to change the reality that you are forcing others to succumb to. All the people you have and will contributed to the pain and possibly demise of by not standing up to these right-wing nut fucks that are now trying to ban contraception with their Supreme Inquisitors . Nobody on the left needs you to storm Democratic rallies and try to brutalize people or hold the national convention hostage until your candidate is forced in after they lose the primary vote…. “Exit” campaigns are fucking dumb. And stop attacking Obama, stop downplaying attacks on your basic right to vote.…
Fucking vote. Vote for Democrats. Don’t go in the street and fight people over your political ideologies because you become ignorant camera fodder… go fucking vote. The day we settle things like that is on election days. The right doesn’t crack their vote… those fucking Nazis among them will vote for Cheney despite their furthest right media* if she won their primary anywhere, despite all their vitriol toward her they don’t crack their vote because it’s the same hateful policy.
You have to vote, you have to be a majoritarian on the left or at the end of the day you’ve still ceded power to the fascists.
Me too! Hey, how come Steven got suspended from toad?
These are all terrific diary entries, Farts! Thanks for sharing!