The Purity Test (stop shitting in the punch bowl)

[David Morris]

If the shoe fits...

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 4:09 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> One more subtle variation on the argument winning “YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE”
> theme.
> > On Dec 19, 2017, at 4:31 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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