More confrontation from Liberal Street Fighter
It is frustrating, this game of “Lifeboat” that the Democratic Party and Pravda/dailyKlark are playing.
What to do? Ridicule them. Shame them. Say NO every chance you get. Confront the lazy misogyny whenever you see it. They’ll call you “shrill”. I get called an “angry loner” a lot in threads by these people. Doesn’t matter. YOUR ridicule, YOUR comdemnation is more powerful than theirs. What can they take away from you? You know the stakes, even though they don’t. We all know that this is a question of life and death, that they are willing to retreat on a gain that, in the grand course of history, has only existed in the western world for a mere glimmer of time. Women, and men of decency, fought for this freedom, this vital leveling of the playing field. All of the new wonder, new creativity, that has entered our daily lives THANKS to women’s righteously won freedom will all be lost again. Control of one’s body is a necessary and primary requirement for a human being to be free. Any intellectually honest person, claiming to live in a free society, must be able to see this, I don’t care what the men spouting superstitious exceptions to that basic truth say.
So laugh and ridicule. Laugh with the biting angry laughs of Margaret Cho and Lenny Bruce and Bill Hicks. Confront them with facts. Confront them.
I can’t believe we’re back here. I can’t believe that people are so blind, but I also know that NOTHING blinds people more than the herd morality so enthusiastically practiced in this country.
I’m sorry for the lack of focus in this rant, but I woke up SO ANGRY about what I’m seeing, about the enthusiastic reception this charicature of a human being has gotten, when it’s quite easy to see that he’s another person who’s fully in the grip of the idea that people must be CONTROLLED, that the wild beauty and creativity of unfettered humantity is something to be snuffed out under rules and shame and iron and condemnation.
Laugh at them. Sling your truth at them with a bitter smile. Ridicule their fear and their lazy reliance on authority.
Most of all, keep fighting, because there is nothing else to do.
Check out a wonderful disection of the problems with the Roberts nom at BOPnews:
But because he doesn’t have a lot of judicial opinions he ordered written for him by his clerks we’re supposed to think we don’t know where he stands? We know who loves him. We know who he’s chosen to work with all his life. We know who he sleeps with. We have seen not a single decision from the bench that indicates that any of the other things we know is wrong.
We know he’s a telegenic, smarter, version of Thomas or Scalia – at best, Rhenquist.
Bush and his allies aren’t subtle people. They tell you what they’re going to do, often years in advance, and then they do it. They do this time in, time out. And yet, for some reason, people still don’t believe them.
So let’s bring it back. Any failure to recognize that Roberts is Scalia prettied up is just gutless timidity and an unwillingness to look the facts full in the face. It isn’t some intellectually principled ‘we must wait till all the evidence is in’, it’s the exact opposite – an unwillingness to operate on the strong evidence which already exists.
And compromising on Roberts, being unwilling to filibuster him, is just another way of saying “I don’t really give enough of a fuck about civil liberties, about a woman’s right to control her own body, about the imperial presidency, about habeas corpus, or about torture to put up more than a token fight.”
Thanks to TrueBlueDem at Our Word for the link.
