Reply #30: What makes something a "truth?" Because you say so? [View All]

[LWolf]

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1. While I agree that Al Gore is probably not going to run, that's an opinion, not a truth.

2. IT DOES FUCKING MATTER WHO SUPPORTED AND ENABLED THE BUSH/CHENEY MARCH TO WAR. THEY DIDN'T START IT WITHOUT HELP FROM DEMOCRATS. "It doesn't matter who voted for the IWR" is an opinion, not a "truth."

3. Cutting off funding would seriously hamper efforts to continue the war, and if it had been done a long time ago, we wouldn't still be there. Saying that "it won't stop the war" is an opinion, not a truth. Cutting off funding would, at the least, STOP THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY COMPLICITY in the war, and, at best, bring it to an end.

4. General election predictions are just that, PREDICTIONS, based on opinions, and are not "truths."

5. The congress is, of course, elected to do many things. Democrats earned the votes last fall because voters wanted some OPPOSITION to Bush and Cheney. Some wanted impeachment, most wanted the war to end and troops to come home. "THEY HAVE TRIED" is an opinion, not a truth. Have I tried to lose weight if I don't have cake with my icecream? If I eat faithfully but don't exercise? "Tried" is a pretty damned subjective measure; the level, and sincerity, of the "try" is an opinion, not a "truth."

6. DEMOCRATS CONTROL THE AGENDA. Who knows what they'd get done with that control, if they actually exercised it, instead of putting it on a shelf "off the table" to collect dust? Postulating that they couldn't do anything anyway is an opinion, not a "truth." Whether you have the votes or not, never even bringing things to the floor for discussion effectively insures that they never even get to be part of the conversation, virtually guaranteeing that they will never happen no matter how many votes there may or may not be.

Here's are some opinions that I believe to be true:

Casting the republicans as the boogie-men we have to fear in order to command obedient votes against our own best interests is a slimy, corrupt political tool.

Suggesting that any Democrat is "better than the boogie-man" is a flat out lie. If the "mainstream" repubs and dems are corporate-controlled, it doesn't matter what the rhetoric is, what they say they stand for, or how they frame the message. Their actions will be to support the continuing corporate agenda, not to support the citizenry. Appearance and reality are not the same thing.

I AM keeping my eye on the ball. The ball of actual action, actual opposition, actual intent to move on issues. That's the ball I'm watching, and it doesn't bounce for all Democrats.