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In reply to the discussion: Markos Moulitsas: Don't draft Warren [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)But let's discuss this one, too:
And I don't think that blowing up gays from the air to save them from ISIL is very helpful.
I believe certain members of various minorities, LGBT and women see that exactly opposite.
That is to say:
Blowing up Daesh from the air will save them from being raped, tortured and killed by them. They have videoed throwing gays to their deaths, killing minorities in their territory and torturing, raping and killing women. And children.
We must root out all that is similar here, and continue to wash our dirty laundry about the brutal facts of the USA here and abroad and still not lose sight of saving lives here and there.
It's a Byzantine morass of beliefs that must be confronted in this world. Those who hate Democrats want the institutions they want to make work gone, as they are the party of good governance. The GOP and the rest want to break all government so that they can build their own fiefdoms. And they are doing it from the ground up.
You addressed the mechanism well in your email, and those who want all thrown out have no workable solution to replace the current paradigm.
Other than an dream of utopia, mainly rural, which, when all the trappings are stripped away, is textbook feudalism. The oppression of being dependent on the strong man or owner, always results to submitting to the one who owns the most, as is done in cults everywhere.
It respects no civil rights and has no code but that of the tribe or godfather figure, prophet, etc.
Excuse me if you've seen this, but this is where we are headed if unable to work together:
Sorry to flog that video, but Thom has been talking about this and the Koch agenda for years:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141015133#post49
Another example from 2011, but after the Bundy fiasco it's a lot worse now:
Of course that was on the list made by the Libertarians and the platform that Koch ran on in 1980 while Democrats were in a dazed state from losing a voice in media. Their platform has not changed for lo these 35 years. I'm sure you saw the OP with the release by Sanders, which had been released by Reid as well.
After a generation of repetition, the lies are the truth. And Dems can't run on facts or truth when it's no longer heard or called a lie or a liberal plot.
Anything that works to weaken the state, with all its problems, is playing the pied piper's flute to its logical conclusion, a reorganization of society into either a theocracy or a mix serfdom of both.
See you later.