RANT: The only reaction I have left to how sickeningly LOW Hillary has gotten

mythyc

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Sat Apr-12-08 09:39 PM
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RANT: The only reaction I have left to how sickeningly LOW Hillary has gotten

Edited on Sat Apr-12-08 10:19 PM by mythyc

It's so little, actually, compared to all that's come before, but the straw the broke the camel's back for me is: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=117799&mesg_id=117799

with every classless move of hers, this is my reaction:

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no it's not a joke. the disturbing thing is how serious I am.

& Now that I have your attention:

caveat: I cry bullshit on you if you say that this is standard fare politics. I'm well aware it's always been dirty, and have intently followed every presidential primary and election since 1984 when I was 11---and this is by far far far far far the most slimeball, daily cockroach-ridden scatalogically-infested grout-stenched outhouse-esque gagging leak a disgusting feeling even into your dreams FARCE I've ever seen from a candidate towards her opponent, same party or not. That this is happening with an opponent in the same fucking party for crissakes, at such a critical historical juncture moreover, is alarming and painful.

If you want to take the dirty campaigning to any opponent, just for the sake of argument, don't tell me but but but but but the swiftboating, but but but but but hanging chads, but but but but florida ohio blah blah blah. When it comes down to what's right out in the open, She is worse, leave nothing subtle or dubious or to the imagination-- more degrading and degraded in the open on a daily basis than any american POTUS candidate has ever been to the opponent from beginning to end of the entire election cycle,, in the campaigns I've observed at least. The only corollary I can fathom in recent history is Dick Nixon and Watergate. Even there, or even with the lowest common denominator of W and his ilk, it was a hidden war (no i don't prefer that: is simple dignity in an election for the world's most important leadership role such a hard concept to grasp???) and Rove ran his through 527's etc, kept the worst redolent rather than overtly screeched-through-the-every-american-ear, used back-room shenanigans rather than the press conference or stump speech as soap box for malicious cut-throat character assassination not just of the opponent but of his every supporter (a line i've never seen so unduly and derogatorily crossed).

The "genius" (:sarcasm:) of Rove by contrast has been his clandestine strategies-- a war of innuendo and convertness if nothing else lets one's own partisans retain the illusion of righteousness and the high road. The Pontius Pilotes get to wash their hands clean, whereas these soldiers in the trenches suffer tear gas and tyranny raining down from overhead in a salvo of relentless ovation and privation... I have metaphorical nightmares of what goes on behind closed Clinton doors when comparing that public-private dichotomy....

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Whatever. I know some here are gonna flame the hell out of this thread, BUT plenty, PLENTY also agree with me. Never mind what awkward, unbecoming, gut-wrenching history we're witnessing and perpetuating now and will feel shame over when we look back and regret the opportunities we missed here by allowing and enabling and facilitating the mass-media shark-tank keep-it-coming frenzy that ensues minute by minute before our eyes. Never mind all that. Take a deep breath and think about it as it could have been. In that context:

When this campaign started I and so so many Americans felt---believed---that we as a nation were taking a giant step forward. A noble stride in the course of human and our nation's history. A black man, a woman, a Hispanic (not to mention a true to heart populist in the mold of Sarge Shriver who actually cares about the poor rather than pandering to them like most of them do): all major candidates in a nation with all this psychic, ethical, racialist, and societal baggage. What an opportunity to work together and bring out the best of all our natures. In the very beginning I would have voted for any of them, and had it all ensued from then to now without such reversals, I still would. WOW, I thought, our best is finally going to come out, now, at last, glory hallelujah, a historic opportunity for resolution, reconciliation, dialogue, healing, in short the amazing American ability to re-invent itself and foster and cultivate and remain a beacon for all we as individuals and society have the potential and power to be--- and all this at a time our nation and in fact world have perhaps never needed, cried for, demanded, hoped for integrity, responsibility, and candor. (side note digression: Hillary, in my opinion, could and might have won had she taken this high road. That's the sad irony for her of this all. I don't gloat that she's where she is. It's painful and piteous to witness and observe. If not, at least she would have remained significant and respected by most, and her husband's legacy to boot would still be intact..., that's a shame which I, nor many here I'd wager, take any pleasure or solace in...) ... Yes I'm an optimist, but are you so much a jaded skeptic near-nihilist (and if so what are you doing here?) that possibility, our potential, what we COULD be, who we should be, that all these deserve not a chance?

It still can be like that, depending, on us. hopes?.... who knows.

What to do? On the one hand this is all immanent and eminent, persistent and resistant, all four in tandem, our core American idealogical chiasmus: the fierce urgency of the now. On the other I need a vacation from this election, from the day in and day out of attrition and degradation infesting once again the American consciousness (whether that's conscious conscientious or consensual or not), this issued from that ... that sorry excuse for a sore loser. And i know plenty of others here and elsewhere feel the same sickness like a brick in the gut, no? :blush:

Rant over. I won't respond to the flamers in this one (though as always I'm happy, even eager, to engage objective forms of opposition). Nor take this back. I'm mad as hell.... :mad: not to mention pretty sad and disappointed :(