More and More I see the Republican Talking Points masquerading as lefty rhetoric and I am scared... [View All]

[Liberation Angel]

What the hell are progressives and leftists who support change and progress DOING when we habitually get into a circular firing squad and attack Obama and the Dems when MANY of them are TRYING to bring about some progressive change.

We disagree on minor points and absorb all the negativity and even hate and spew it out at each other and at Obama and the Dems EVEN THOUGH IT IS CLEAR THAT OBSTRUCTIONIST RETHUGS AND DINOS are to blame for the failure of the Seante to pass a better health care bill, universal care or a public option.

We shriek and holler and one poster is calling Obama a liar and a snake (with very little basis in fact if any at all) and we are virtually DESTROYING the prospects for future change, future election of progressives and progressive dems and a second term for Obama.

People say there is no difference between the rethugs and the democrats.
People say Obama is a corporate whore and a sellout and no better than Bush.

HOW MANY YOUNG DEMOCRATS AND PARTICIPANTS IN DEMOCRACY ARE WE PERMANENTLY ALIENATING WITH BULLSHIT RHETORIC WHICH IGNORES POLITICAL REALITIES AND WHICH ECHOES EXACLY WHAT THE WHITE RIGHT WING WANTS US TO SHRIEK ABOUT RELENTLESSLY UNTIL WE FEEL ALL OUR VALUES ARE BETRAYED.

Obama NEEDS us to challenge him.

But he is not a sellout. He may be wrong on some points.

He is not Perfect. He is a human being who, I believe, WANTS to do the right thing by all of us.

He is about as far from a Bush as you can go in American politics.

And he represents ALL of us, including those who are not as progressive or hip or lefty or pacifist as us.

Obama is doing what he CAN. He is TRYING (despite the cries of betrayal here at DU). And we may disagree vehemently on some policies, but overall it is immeasurably better than McCain or the rethugs or the bastards we MAY get (Romney/Palin) in 2012 if we keep attacking Obama.

BUT ARE WE FOREVER DESTROYING THE CHANCE FOR INCREMENTAL PROGRESSIVE AND PRACTICAL CHANGE BY ATTACKING AND DESTROYING OBAMA AND MANY OF THE DEMOCRATS WHO WANT TO GIVE US WHAT WE WANT BUT WHO HAVE HAD TO MAKE COMPROMISES DUE TO THE ALMOST INSURMOUNTABLE POWER AND INFLUENCE of the CORPOROFASCIST OPPOSITION?

Let us NOT destroy ourselves and commit political suicide because we do not win every victory or get all we all mostly want. We need to look at this as an intergenerational battle for the soul of America and if we let the right wing control our talking points and deride and denigrate our own leaders, we are doing the work of the corporofascists.

I fear we are missing this point in this one skirmish.

We need to hang together for the long term.

Or we will each hang alone.