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In reply to the discussion: Bill Moyers: Democrats Can't Unite Until DWS Goes [View all]PATRICK
(12,229 posts)Even if she stayed and won re-election she would be "moving on up" to some wonderful reward. Dumping her would be at least a cunning symbol of appeasing the Sanders crowd. It would be a start and patently ludicrous if it ended there since how does Moyers possibly think asll those fake establishment delegates and all their swank sell-out parties are going to work out party unity- at all?
it would be a start and it would still seem to likely fail but will anyone be shocked it if the careerists and Mammonite Dems do anything except double down on arrogance? When you can't change and when the reckoning of decades is about to hit you denial is the order of the day. It is soothing, semi-heroic, fortified by undeniable power. And they are trapped in that elite Alamo really without any ammo whatsoever. Just a billion bucks and a white flag.
So far no one has crossed that line drawn in the sand.
Will the two parties disappear? No careerists have less of a path and certainly less of a spine to transition to any third party.
They have been weirdly jumping ship D to R, R to D with no seeming change of heart or policy. The people have been more professionally confused than at any other time of history for all our education and media smorgasbords. So this will be a repressed climate for inexorable change, strangely parallel for the suicidal species madness of the climate change "debate".
Both parties are anti-democratic, anti-people, anti sense in opposing a huge disconnect with at least half their own electorate base. The GOP deserves death by at least irrelevance and direct opposition to the needs, to the very survival of nation and citizen. And dumb as bricks to give some excuse to their service of Smaug the Mighty. The current politics dictates that the Democrats follow their lead down this non road.
Neither party can die, but America and its citizens sure can. And do. And will. And whatever illusions or delusions money can buy neither party or both together can representthe American people nor do they dare connect. One method is to back a demagogue, classic far right loon disconnected from this reality in many many ways, none good. The other is mask decline by a nostalgia Evita Perrone style comeback. Herself, not just the legend! But with none of the charisma to connect to anything but a sullen trip down anachronistic capitalist lane, a dead everything.
The party will want history to disappear, and unity to appear like some magic entitlement greater than any they promise for social security or medicare or schools or peace or..... How did the people who received the very meaning of their careers from the better traditions pre-Reagan ever descend to this and with such lickspittle cowardice and indifference?
We seem committed to misery and little else. No need to list the horrors. Just hunker down or flee
To talk of just dumping DWS (driiving while sh#t-faced?) is being overly polite or sarcastic.