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In reply to the discussion: Rachel had it Right, now DU is getting it wrong. [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)people in servitude making excuses for the tyrants while they walk on their neighbor in pursuit of moderation.
And, frankly, I don't need any post to tell me who to lump with whom. If those sorry excuses for human beings don't want to be lumped together they need to stand up and loudly proclaim that racism, bigotry, and tyranny over the poor is wrong, instead of shaking the hands of the hatemongers and asking for a vote. Otherwise they, and people who make excuses for them, are my opponent.
I'm also less sure that employed assholes on TV who have a job have much of any import to say while 20+ million people don't have a job and need one.
(Odd, however. That post above is at first dismissive of DU, then near insulting by comparing it with Tea Party. Why even hang around? Or maybe that's just a bunch of hot electrons? Oh, and I'm not defending DU, they don't need me for that certainly. Just observations about what was written.)
Oh, and I am far more interested in what the single parent checker at Walmart has to say, who couldn't leave their job to walk around in a park, else they lose the job and their child might go hungry, than I am with someone who wants to pat themselves on the back because they did.
In my progressive world, that checker would not have had to worry about it. And if that's being an "old tired intransigent purist", cool.
But I ain't tired. Or scared.