tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post8738445765419411352..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: The Git and the PendulumBig Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-78792046449698540192014-08-29T13:39:28.451-04:002014-08-29T13:39:28.451-04:00Voter apathy is their biggest hope for success- th...<i>Voter apathy is their biggest hope for success- the voters blew it big time by not coming out in record numbers in 2010, and it will be decades before the mess can be cleaned up.</i><br /><br />I think you are giving way too much blame to the downtrodden masses, and way to little to our cynical corporatist Dems.<br /><br />Who got rid of Howard Dean's 50-State strategy as soon as he was sworn into office?<br /><br />Was "look at how well the stock market is doing...now let's cut Social Security via the Catfood Commission" supposed to rouse the masses?<br /><br />And it continues. <br /><br />Even if the voters did turn out in huge numbers in 2014, there are many Congressional districts that will not be in play at all...because DCCC chair Steve Israel and DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Obama's pick) want to run conservadems, only. <br /><br />(<a href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2014/08/is-there-democrat-in-congress-more.html" rel="nofollow">And not against their favorite goopers</a>.)<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-27829579320759172702014-08-29T00:02:36.333-04:002014-08-29T00:02:36.333-04:00Damn. Sounds like Mullin is running Giuliani's...<i>Damn. Sounds like Mullin is running Giuliani's campaign from 1993.</i><br /><br />Yeah, even the specter of the "squeegee men" has been raised. "Specter of the Squegee Men" would be a great <i>Dr Who</i> episode.<br /><br /><i>These sort of things are the reason I think it's all going to come apart. It's not the racial and sectarian divides with us - oh, they're there, but we've developed a society that lives with them. With Americans it's tribal - and the tribes have named themselves 'Liberal' and 'Conservative'. These are just labels that cover a whole set of increasingly narrow ideologies, but the underlying tone keeps getting more and more violent.</i><br /><br />I think we are a bit too sensitive to this because we are political obsessives. I still have "Republican" friends to whom I make no bones about being a socialist- we don't typically talk politics because there are other subjects with which to occupy our time.<br /><br /><i>This is false, so I'm not sure where this comes from. I think part is the fact that they frequently don't like the results of the political process. I suppose they could be trying to get people to say democracy is a bad idea, let's make Reagan king and have done with it, but I doubt it.</i><br /><br />Voter apathy is their biggest hope for success- the voters blew it big time by not coming out in record numbers in 2010, and it will be decades before the mess can be cleaned up. In the meantime, the right gins up outrage about fake issues, knowing that racial animus and hippy-hating can get the rubes to vote against their best interests.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-35946441884425187412014-08-28T21:42:17.632-04:002014-08-28T21:42:17.632-04:00"The new sheriff's ^wife's a - Ni-CLA..."The new sheriff's <b>^wife's</b> a - Ni-CLANG!"<br /><br />I've noticed for a while now that the right is trying to make "politics" this weird scary thing that we should avoid at all costs because it isn't part of our normal lives. <br /><br />This is false, so I'm not sure where this comes from. I think part is the fact that they frequently don't like the results of the political process. I suppose they could be trying to get people to say democracy is a bad idea, let's make Reagan king and have done with it, but I doubt it. <br /><br />And there's always plain old stoopididty.Juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17390791792685104671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-55096701440656814202014-08-28T10:59:47.083-04:002014-08-28T10:59:47.083-04:00These sort of things are the reason I think it'...These sort of things are the reason I think it's all going to come apart. It's not the racial and sectarian divides with us - oh, they're there, but we've developed a society that lives with them. With Americans it's tribal - and the tribes have named themselves 'Liberal' and 'Conservative'. These are just labels that cover a whole set of increasingly narrow ideologies, but the underlying tone keeps getting more and more violent.mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-14113940076818403072014-08-28T08:36:06.056-04:002014-08-28T08:36:06.056-04:00Damn. Sounds like Mullin is running Giuliani'...Damn. Sounds like Mullin is running <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani#1993" rel="nofollow">Giuliani's campaign from 1993</a>.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.com