I'm not defending a damned thing and I'm not endorsing a damned thing, but .......

Stinky The Clown

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Fri Nov-09-07 05:32 PM
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I'm not defending a damned thing and I'm not endorsing a damned thing, but .......

..... of late, it seems, we're kicking the shit out of each other over stupid stuff.

Let's think about a few things.

We don't like some of the candidates. Some of the best people for president aren't even in the race. Why is that? Well, in no small part, it has to do with cash. Its takes a shitload of it to run for county dog catcher. It takes hundreds of thousands of orders of magnitude more to run for president. A Billion or more will be spent in the collective efforts to get the office. A frickin' Billion.

We can shout at each other all day long about the way this one picks their nose or that one holds their hand when speaking or the other one combs their hair. But ya know what? It doesn't fucking matter.

Money Talks. Bullshit walks. Its that simple.

And we probably all agree on what the solution is.

Public campaign funding.

But instead its so much more productive (hahahaha) to yammer on about absolute meaningless bullshit dredged up in the worthless media. We squable over what THEY want us to squabble about. Age. Boomers vs everyone else. Tips. Lapel pins. Flying saucers.

Stop it.

Focus.

We all scream about the leadership of the party and what they're doing. Or not doing. (Just by way of example) Debbie Wasserman Shultz, no doubt as great a Democrat as anyone can imagine, and mostly on the right side of our REAL issues, will get her ass handed to her because she had the temerity to do her legislative job and act as the House Chief Deputy Whip and say that there are priorities higher than impeachment. I'm as upset by this as anyone. but I also applaud that out leadership is actually trying to do what we've been asking them to do for YEARS .... take a solid, united stand on stuff. It is inexplicable to me why they continue to choose THIS issue, but geeeze .... at least they're all on the same fucking page. Is this all Pelosi? I have no idea, but my gut says no. Instead, I really think it is them trying, however misguidedly, in my opinion, to get a larger majority in 08.

See .... its back to that cash again. Of course, the media only plays up our own internal squabbles ... to impeach or not. They magnify the divisions and ignore the unity. And of course they never focus on the substance - our president and vice president are arguably criminals and DESERVE impeachment.

You know, if the media actually allowed an HONEST discussion of impeachment, things would turn around pretty quickly. We can beat the shit out of our leadership, but until THEIR CONSTITUENTS are strongly pro impeachment, it ain't happenin'. How do their constituents get on board? Not by reading DU. They have to have it spoon fed. I try to talk to at least one person each day about impeachment. Imagine if the media were doing the same thing. Talking about it every day. We'd then know what the country REALLY thinks.

The media. Yeah, that's a huge problem, too. Every bit the equal of campaign finance reform. How do we fix it? Get a majority and a Dem president and then pressure the hell out of them to make the media honest again.

With an honest media, the vote system frauds would have outraged everyone in the country, not just Dems or Repubs ..... everyone wants to think their vote counts and is counted fairly. Its not even a partisan issue. Instead ..... we get shit. A few lone voices in the wilderness.

So yeah ... we can squabble about the small shit and the medium sized shit. That's what the media and money guys want. Instead, we need to be looking at the BIG shit.

I don't think there's any shit bigger than the twin badasses - the media CRISIS and the BROKEN campaign system. If we can fix then, I honestly think everything else will fall into place.