DonCoquixote
DonCoquixote's JournalAbout Rush and cancer
I won't lie, the devil on my left shoulder wants to gloat. This is not because Rush was a people, evil person, but also because of what he helped stir into the world, many people were facing that same cancer diagnosis that he is dealing with will have a lot less resources to fight that same cancer. I thought he would've gained some compassion for others after he had his run-in with OxyContin addiction, make no mistake, especially in Florida, there are people who did very serious amounts of time for what he got caught doing. My hope was that he would understand that yes, anyone can find themselves in addiction, and anyone can find themselves in a lot of trouble.
However, as someone whose mother died of cancer, I know that even for the worst of enemies, it is not something to wish upon someone. It might be easy to say old he deserves it, the truth is, if we all got we deserved, there might not be enough dirt to bury us all. No I do not wish suffering upon him, if for no other reason that I do not want to become the very thing I do not like. It would be a sad irony if I wound up mocking rush have only to see a little bit of his face in the mirror.
However, let me be fully honest, is not enough to say the old line "quality of mercy is not strained", because when anyone, rich or poor, though especially poor, gets at the mercy of the medical system, mercy is quite strained, especially at the hands of doctors. This because I do not wish suffering upon old rusty does not mean I am not hoping that he finally learns something that we were trying to pound into his head for years. Yes, when the powers that be have use for you, everything is golden, but the very half second it becomes expedient to wish rush off in a matter of indignity, the very people that will do it are his friends, most especially the president.
About Hillary, Bernie, Talib etc.
The fact is, we Democrats are showing that we find it a lot easier to fight with each other than to focus on the enemy on the enemy.. Now now we can all find things about various people we do like, and various things we don't like. There are some things about Biden I like, about Warren I like, about Sanders I like. And just to lay all my cards on the table, even though I am not will be considered the "center", I can find things that I like about certain Democrats who are, even Amy from Minnesota.
I can also say that I have seen some bad actors on all sides of the spectrum. Hillary, you don't need to fire shots at Bernie now. If you wanted to go ahead and fight Bernie Sanders again you could've run, and heaven knows that there would've been plenty of people who have carried your banner, but you did not. The one thing you do not want to do is stir up some of the same feelings that lost us, or rather, made it easy for Trump to steal from us the 2016 election. Oh Bernie, believe me I have plenty for you, because you have seen people on your side act out right like jackasses and done nothing to corral them in. As for the members of "the squad" I am very happy that we have people elected who don't look like the standard template, yes I'm happy to see people that look like me in their, but that does not mean that you do anything that I can possibly give ammo to people that did use the animosity to steal votes and shut them towards the third-party sewer drain.
The brutal fact is, as much as we justifiably hate the GOP, they realize that if they can band together for one damn election, they can get at least 80% of what they want. Right now things that we have taken for granted, like Social Security, like Medicare, like the right to abortion, like gay marriage things that we have spent 40 years pouring our blood into are not merely just one Supreme Court justice away. They already have the courts folks, and someone like Trump will gladly go ahead and ship away at the actual media itself so that way not only are the three branches of government completely compromised, but the very press, the very Internet will be compromised. And yes no doubt there are plenty of pundits on both sides the centrist jerks and the liberal wimps and the far left would be revolutionaries/Russia's useful idiots that will go there there at you and do the old song "you should listen to me!" Nothing less than a true coalition of people who frankly do not like and trust each other is going to beat the GOP that is a coalition of people who do not like and trust each other.
We all know that the Christian people have the business people and the libertarians have the Dominionists all chomping at the bit to bite at each other. The difference is they know they have to wait until we are all annihilated. Indeed we also know that the worst thing that could happen to Republican Party is if we were all to go, because then they would go ahead and do a civil war. Hell we show them the template because after it looked like we were actually winning, we all decided to go ahead and fight each other, a trend that is occurring in this very day on this very webpage.
I am not asking people to deny their beliefs, or sell their candidate down the river. What I am saying is that even if we want to attack that one Democrat that we don't like, we have to remember that we have to spend 60% at least of our malice on Donald. We like to admit it or not, the very people that we will be attacking in the primary are the same comrades in arms we're going to need come fall to actually be Don. And where we can say about our fellow Democrats, especially whichever Democrat it is that makes your stomach sick, the truth is there that yes they at their absolute worst are going to be better than Donnie.
It is very easy to consider yourself a champion of an ideal. It is no accident that religions so martyrdom, because it is a cheap way of gaining all the benefits of a saintly life and all you have to do is do the one thing that not even the cockroaches can fail to do. It is much much harder to survive, and whether we want to admit it or not we're not just in recovery mode, we are in survival mode, with our very planet in the ICU. I know that we are not going to give each other a bowel like this pissed you off are offering the primary, then you are not willing to defeat Donald Trump, because it will take a unified effort, one that can least avoid killing each other the way that the libertarians and Jesus freaks want to kill each other, long enough to reach the finish line.
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