I didn't find it smug or sanctimonious at all... it seemed right on the money.
It must be the influence of Barack Obama.Wow, y'all should form a third party or something, what's with the sudden bi-partisanship?
Seriously, if that article is right, then you should just take all the Republicans out, shoot them and have done with it.
Wow, y'all should form a third party or something, what's with the sudden bi-partisanship?
I tend to vote Dem more than GOP, and I hate all that trashing of one party over another. Just from a tactical standpoint, it's stupid to assign all those bad qualities to your competitor.
I tend to vote Dem more than GOP, and I hate all that trashing of one party over another. Just from a tactical standpoint, it's stupid to assign all those bad qualities to your competitor.
Exactly. Even if you're 100% correct in those assignations, it's just bad form. The question could have been answered just as effectively using the first halves of each response. There was no constructive purpose in maligning the other faction...and this is why I see it as extremism. It's petty, unnecessary, and undermines your credibility.
This Daily Kos column is part of the problem, not the solution, to finding equitable compromises for today's partisan politics.
In its own way, it's like being trapped in your car with that loud-mouthed boor, Rush Limbaugh, screaming at you ("GET OFF THE PHONE YOU COMMIE CREEP!"). It had me clutching my head & rooting around for some ibuprofen.
Dems are "the party of science, reason, and rationality.....the party that understands economics....The Democratic party is the party of economic, social, fiscal, and environmental sustainability. The GOP is the party of spoiled 3-year-olds, expounding their infantile "Gimme it, it's mine! I want it all! Gimme gimme gimme NOW!" philosophy.....The Democrats are much wiser on foreign policy and national security.... The GOPers love America in the way that a 4-year old loves their mommy - mommy is always right no matter what, and anyone who criticizes mommy is a bad, evil man (or country).... Democrats view each citizen - nay, each human being - as a unique and valuable individual entitled to certain inalienable rights..... Republicans view each person as a cog in the machine, as a tool in production"
If dems & cons continue to think along these lines - viewing their political neighbors as "opposites", as political inferiors who walk in lockstep and subscribe to groupthink, drinking only their own party's brand of kool-aid - they only dig in the trenches a little deeper, solidify the gridlock.
We desperately need to find a new politics. As a good start, it might help if we all viewed ourselves as political independents -- if only to begin to break free from drinking our own kool-aids.
So now I have to accept Republican bullshit for the cause of bi-partisanship? They wouldn't do the same for us, they told us to fuck off and die with any input that we had that was not in lock step with their plan. Barack Obama has repeatedly had his hand whacked away when he reached out to the Republicans... they can't have anymore fucking tax cuts 'cause it didn't work the last time and all it did was drain our government's coffers to dangerous levels. They are authoritarian and nothing more than bullies who seek to crush all opposition at any cost.
The DailyKos excerpt that you quoted is harsh as hell, but it is entirely truthful.
It's time for the Republican party to stand in the corner and think about their actions. Now is not the time to give them what they could never give us... that's right, I said NEVER!!!! Don't think that you can turn your backs on the right wingers for a fucking second, they will stick a knife in it and twist it to make sure that the wound is fatal.
The conservatives would like nothing more than for the Democrats to let them off of the hook.
Don't be a bunch of pussies... stick that knee back in their chest so that they can't move until the cops get here.
Republicans can fucking suck it, I ain't offering them no fucking hand, and you shouldn't either.
Don't think that you can turn your backs on the right wingers for a fucking second, they will stick a knife in it and twist it to make sure that the wound is fatal.