The Purity Test (stop shitting in the punch bowl)

[Mark Kohut]

No, just like many progressives who reduce their dissing to a kind of
abstract dissing phrase-slogan.

It is just the truth, stated in a Pynchonian character way.

Had those irresponsible,self-stupified Americans who voted for the
irresponsible Jill Stein voted for the Democratic Party candidate as Bernie
Sanders,
the best progressive candidate who gallantly tried and just as gallantly
worked his barely-tired--what energy; i'm going to run track in high school
so I can be like
him when I'm old---ass off for the the Dem candidate--- tried to get all to
do...




On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 5:08 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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