A Progressive Word

Below is a revealing blog excerpt from a "progressive" (i.e. Marxist) who was advocating weaning the movement from the suck-up Democratic Party. That is, who care about Coakley - written before the election. 


Like terrorists these people will sacrifice their own children.  This makes them effective strategists. The operative notion is dominance without regard for means - the enemy of my enemy is my friend, until I kill them.


Flip over the argument, most people will vote for a crappy Republican, but it goes both ways, rather than let the other gang win. The Crypts get their votes and the Bloods get theirs. From Mars, it is hard to see any differences.


This dull reaction breeds simpleton candidates and a nirvana of feel good policies. Elections are decided by the "middle" who have no political theory. Thinking they are superior pragmatists, they go by debates, commercials, suspect books, crowds, and so on.  


Sometimes they like people who talk tough on crime, sometimes on saving money, other times the need to get big bad business people, then to elect them. Without a political theory, they apply hedonism, thinking they live in a democracy. This may work where people are well educated and morally sound, but this is assuming too much to provide a history. (Oh, we live in a republic - huge difference.) 


The progressive logic below would suggest you let your weak running dog fail while you vote ideology, once you have gained a foothold. 


There is always the thought that the least of evils is the way to determine a vote (this is a Limbaugh view).  This view prides itself on being practical. Others, many of them, would say, let the gutless Republican fail and vote for ideology. There is much to recommend this approach. Look where the milk-toast Republican Party finds itself; it is the "me-too, but I am better" party.


The Parliamentary system permits ideological voting, but this result in a psychotic pendulum of governments and strange bedfellows. You look at Europe and understand why we like a yin-yang system, but clever people can trick voters in the U.S.  Unlike in Europe they have to lie to do so.  Ours is a "Parliament of Whores" as the book of that name describes it.


So, we have the Marxists, most thinking they are progressives and so on, leading the Democratic Party off the cliff. The political strategists don't care. They will actually push their army over the cliff when the time is ripe, and it is appears we are close to that cliff. This year, dozens of cannon fodder will be tumbling off the cliff, if they don't retire early.


Yesterday's Brown election may have been a tipping point as to the return of conscious voting. Or, Brown pulled over some Democrats because of his centerfold. 

 Progressives, please help defeat Coakley:

It is very important that progressives help defeat Coakley. Please read my explanation. The more power the folks in the Democratic Corporate Suck Up wing of the party gain, the more we will have to fight to make the party move to the left. I do not think that many progressive Democrats understand that putting such people as Coakley into power is worse than having a Republican in the seat. Just being in the Democratic Party does not and will not ensure a progressive agenda. Do you not see that? So, if you get her into the seat, what makes you think she will be any better than Lincoln, or Nelson, or Lieberman! It will, in fact, ensure that there will be NO progressive agenda. It was not the Republicans who failed us of late. It was the Democrats. We will never succeed as long as the Dem’s can talk liberal and vote corporate...

I fully agree with your premise, but the closest I can come to joining you is to promise not to support Coakley’s candidacy...

I think there’s something revolutionary going on: people (including me) are starting wean themselves of the Democratic Party, and the farther we step away from party politics, the clearer we see. It’s like having the scales fall from our eyes, and it’s a liberating feeling. Just my opinion.

Friday morning line up

I get feedback. Few bother sending emails to the group. Interesting.

1. Bob mentioned this morning that van Jones is doomed and that he figures this weekend should do it. Apparently, the administration is worried about an open communist figure calling others assholes. The video below demonstrates a slight lisp, as well!

From Irene: our Czar of O2- white people are polluting the black people:

2. Bob mentioned one of the founders of the Weather Underground and an author of the bills the democrats voted on without reading has his office in Troy, NY. I think its the Apollo office.

From Beck broadcast:

KERPEN: Well, Jeff has been involved not just in those terrorist activities with the Weather Underground. He was actually part of the Weather-buro modeled on the politburo which was the high leadership where he was with Bill Ayers.

But Jones was on the run, hiding from the law for about a decade before he was finally caught in a dramatic raid where his 4-year-old saw him arrested in 1981.

He then became an adviser to environmental groups, to labor organizations and to the New York state government where he sits on a commission for Governor Paterson...

... he's an adviser to something called the Workforce Development Institute here in New York, which is advising state and local governments and universities on how to write their grants to get stimulus funds from the stimulus bill that he and his friends at Apollo wrote....

...They've got the mainstream guys. Carl Pope, the president of the Sierra Club is on the board of the Apollo Alliance. They've got — they've got Leo Gerard from the International Steelworkers Union on the board of the Apollo Alliance. John Podesta, from the American for Center Progress — all of the mainstream elements of the Obama administration and the liberal and progressive movement are tied in with these people.

3. Greg called last night and had interesting distillations:

a. We missed the opportunity to reconstitute personal freedom when the first TARP went through, following hysterical threats of doom from the FED - they said there was 24 hours before the system failed. So, the elite got the people to cover their loses and emerge, as Bob points out, with fewer competitors. Greg opines it may have failed, we should have let it, but Goldman Sachs prevented it. Bob mentioned today that the Fed is compromised, thoroughly political. That is, the government and large businesses are merging - the essence of fascism. I ask: why are we so intent on covering the losses of billionaires? Is a long death better than a painful catharsis?

b. We are, right now, at the point of deciding between being citizens or subjects. For me, this is a perfect central concept to hold. A citizen has responsibility and empowers a government to act on his behalf and is NOT a subject who lets the government be his mommy. Bottom line, the development of the mommy state is what is going on under the guise of medical care, etc. Catch yourself every time you say you are getting something from the government - that is the beginning of the end. It is a lie.

c. The wheel of history continues, regardless of the missed opportunity to let Goldman Sachs, et al, fail and the next collapse will be more dramatic, and we will have no money left to cover it up.

d. The rampant growth of the money changers, the true nature of "investment bankers," started with the end of the gold standard. After that, money was whatever the government decided to "print."

4. Bob also agrees with me the first thing, perhaps the only thing, is to vote everyone out of office. Party is irrelevant. For my part, I think we should start a movement to amend to Constitution to add term limits, fix a modest income and budget for the Congress. I have to think about repealing the 17th Amendment, a popular topic, wherein we abandon the direct election of senators and return the duty to the states. One can see the problems inherent in politics, but are we better off with demagogues? At least, the state representatives are close to the people and watching to make sure they get reelected, except in NYC, Boston, and LA where there is no real examination of candidates.

5. Final comment from Bob: if you are convicted of a felony while in Congress, even for acts taken earlier, you get life. I am not sure how this would work other than a second federal trial, but think about the idea.