Since nalbar’s latest zero attack (See my recent post at <http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2018/7/18/162343/902>, “Several Questions For Booman.”) I am going to save myself the trouble of ferreting through the comments sections to see if what I am saying has been McCarthyized and…until Booman takes some kind of effective action against the zero rater(s)…I will simply post my comments and replies as standalones.
On that post, oaguabonita commented:
boo’s very next word was “But”, so… (none / 0)
. . . of course that’s where you stopped quoting him! He continued:
But all of that has been put on a back burner for me when it comes to priorities because keeping people like Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan from running our lives is more important than any other issue.
Leaving your “me, too” following that truncated quote a typically dishonest misrepresentation.
Below is my response.
Read on.
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“…a typically dishonest misrepresentation?” The link was there for all to see.
I disagree with Booman’s further ruminations about “what to do.” I think that sacrificing the strong implementation of those true progressive priorities in favor of political “pragmatism” is the reason that we are now in the Trumpian fix that so bedevils us. Making compromises of that sort has only allowed neocentrist, corporate-owned hustlers…like those who now control the direction of the party…to pass as progressive Democrats.
But they can’t get…or at least keep…the votes.
Why?
Because too many people read their hustle as soon as they get a chance to really look at them, and then promptly shut them off.
Even the most talented of those hustlers…Barack Obama and Bill Clinton…must eventually show their true beliefs/alliances and thus lose their glossy luster. The same holds true on the conservative side of the fence, which is as good an explanation as any for the two term back-and-forth that we have experienced since the Clinton administraton. 8 years of DemRat, 8 years of Ratub, then 8 years of DemRat. Except this time, if the Trump administration survives for 8 years then the country will be truly and finally lost.
Booman wrote (emphases mine):
If I could summarize this briefly, I’d say that ever since I saw the Bush administration’s response to 9/11, the way they governed, their dismissal of factual information and scientific evidence, and their embrace of their most vicious aspects of our nature, I changed my mind about what the primary goal of Democratic politics should be in our era. All efforts should be directed to keeping the Republican Party, as presently constituted, out of power. In this sense, winning is everything. Simply be being in the majority the Democrats are doing the country and the world the biggest service they could ever provide them, and whatever they do or don’t do with that power is relatively unimportant.
Whatever they do or don’t do with that power is relatively unimportant?
I disagree.
What the Clinton and Obama administrations did…and did not do…with the power that had been allotted to them is the reason that Bush II and Trump won.
Of course, there are always the excuses.
Those big bad Republicans did it!!!
Or its newer version:
Them awful Russkies did it!!!
The Republicans and Russians did not force NAFTA (and its result…the loss of U.S. industry to cheap labor states), the cancerous growth of surveillance state or our many ongoing overt and covert wars down the throats of Americans. They did not make Bill Clinton…that prime candidate for the #MeToo brigade…to take Monica Lewinsky down in the Oval Office. (Incredibly…in the inevitable knowledge of the ever-present Secret Service officers!!!) They did not force Barack Obama to ostentatiously bathe in the publicity of his many, many, incredibly expensive vacations or smarm along with the empty late night talk show hosts. Those presidents and their advisors did it. And the other Democrats who assisted them? In Congress? In responsible positions of power in the executive branch? In the so-called “intelligence” services? They did it too.
They eventually lost the public’s trust…the trust of enough voters to swing the next vote away from the Democrats.
What Booman is suggesting…regrettably even to him, I think…is simply Clinton/Obama business as usual. The whole public position/private position rigamarole that got us here in the first place.
It didn’t work…didn’t continue to work after the elections…as the bloom fell off of those nice-smelling but totally inauthentic Democratic flowers. Democratic Febreze only goes so far to cover up the swamp smell. Bet on it. It wafts right off of the TV screen when venal hustlers like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi make the mistake of allowing themselves to be filmed.
I say that it is time to go whole hog plus postage. No more of this “Scylla or Charybdis” shit. Let us see what happens if a presidential candidate speaks the truth. Win or lose.
I mean…it can’t get much worse than Trump, right?
Let us try the truth for a change.
Please.
Later…
AG
