The Purity Test (stop shitting in the punch bowl)

[David Morris]

Unfortunately here in the US we have only two viable options: Red or Blue.
To vote otherwise is assholery.  Sad but true.

David Morris

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 3:03 PM Matthew Taylor <matthew.taylor923 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So, David, what about the Honduran family I know through tenants' rights
> organizing here in LA, who refused to vote for Hillary because of her role
> in a coup that ruined their country? (And no, this isn't some conspiracy or
> overblown narrative, this isn't Benghazi v.2...Clinton is partially
> responsible for the crisis Honduras is in today, that's a fact.)
>
> Are they assholes because you have decided that they didn't vote in their
> own best interests, that you know better than them? I suppose those aren't
> the kinds of people you meant, however...you were referring to white,
> comfortable leftists without much at stake. Fine, but why then are you
> erasing the *many *people who are vulnerable and marginalized and
> exploited who made the choice not to vote for Hillary? Seems rather
> paternalistic.
>
> Why aren't you instead blaming a party that rarely speaks to the material
> needs of the people it courts as its base? Democrats are garbage, and
> people know it. The way they prioritize 'responsible bipartisanship' and
> 'incremental change' doesn't fly with people anymore. The voters didn't
> fail Hillary, Hillary and the Democratic party failed time and time again.
> We do need a left in this country, and it is emerging and it will
> absolutely leave the Democrats and their weak tea center-left apologists
> behind.
>
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> >
>> > So this is David Morris’s brilliant strategy for winning people to his
>> side - call them assholes. I don’t know why others did not think of this.
>> You should go on an heroiic "YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE” tour. Maybe  hire a band
>> to fill in with angry music between the polished and eloquent “YOU ARE AN
>> ASSHOLE” speeches, carefully peppered with little pungent witticisms like
>> “YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE”. Go for it Morris, the Democratic party will grow like
>> cannabis in fish shit.
>> >
>> >> On Dec 19, 2017, at 3:13 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Anyone who voted for anyone other than Hilary voted for Trump, and
>> they are assholes.
>> >>
>> >> David Morris
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:04 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
>> wrote:
>> >> Obama had 8 years to put out fires. He started more instead. The punch
>> bowl is already full of shit and people know that. People did not vote for
>> Trump. They voted against Hillary. That is what the polls show and that is
>> what common sense says.
>> >>> On Dec 19, 2017, at 9:54 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> https://first-draft.com/2017/12/19/im-done-with-your-doug-jones-feelings-too-internet/
>> >>>
>> >>> "People I know and love are suffering and will suffer while we
>> fantasize about having more than two parties, about not having to choose
>> between the arsonists and the (dumb, underfunded, likely corrupt) fire
>> brigade. Me and mine would like the fires out."
>> >>>
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