I have noticed a prevailing trend as of
late, something in the wind starting to gather some steam. Some
liberals are starting to say that liberals in general need to
reconcile over the events of the last several decades, well more
specifically the primary and election season that just ended. Hey,
this is pretty good. The same group that told Sanders supporters to
get over the primary, and due their duty are now crying that we must
bury the hatchet, after months of insults, and being bullied, we must
get over it all in the blink of an eye and we must bury the hatchet.
Okay, before I am going to be willing
to bury the hatchet, I need to get my own head around some things, I
need to continue to rest, and rejuvenate my body and mind. I also
need to get many things off my chest, and for most of the people who
will read this, they might find themselves in agreement with a great
deal of it, others might say I am a lost cause, but I am going to say
it, give it some time, and then set back to work for the world I want
to see for my children, because in this current climate I doubt many
of us will see this dream world.
First I am having some real problems
with the hypocrisy of my liberal peers. Yes, I am a farther to the
left than many of you. In most circles I am called a progressive, I
call myself a social democrat, or even a socialist. What I am seeing
in my peers is a hypocritical streak, you were rightfully angry when
we went to war on crap intelligence. We were killing people
needlessly, and as liberals we were beyond pissed off over it. We
were lied to, we were used, and if that didn't leave a bad taste in
your mouth, I don't know what to tell you. So, Obama comes in, a
freshly minted Nobel Peace Prize in hand, and we figure we can trust
this man with the military, mostly because he was promising to end
the bloodshed. Yeah, so when he starts doing worse things than his
predecessor most liberals were cool with it. Clinton promised a more
masculine foreign policy, and to continue do the path. For those
liberals who support her, you are showing your hypocrisy. You were
angry when the GOP was doing it, turning a blind eye when the
Democrats were doing it, and my god, you have given the conservative
commentators online so much ammo that its not even funny. If you are
against war, against killing innocent people, you have to be against
killing all innocent people. Its like the GOP being pro-life and
pro-death penalty. IF you are against war, you have to be against
war, outside of a few pretty bad situations.
Next up, you have to stop with the
majority of people spoke, Sanders lost, so shut up and stop whining.
Well, guess what, because of the breakdown of how our elections work
in the US, he won the states, got the 270 Electoral Votes, and like
it or not, you need to sit down, stop whining, and shut up already.
Yeah, I bet if you supported Clinton that just made you angry didn't
it. Unlike the primary, all indications I have seen are that, it was
fair. Trump won it fair and square, he didn't cheat. So, now you
want to kill the Electoral College. Now, I have no real love for the
Electoral College, the system is outdated, and honestly, it needs
some serious updating or some new system to update it. Here is the
skinny, like it or not, if we move to a straight popular vote system,
you are going to have people whose voices will be drowned out. This
election, in one breakdown I read stated that this election was urban
versus rural. The cities versus the country. Funny thing, if you
look at the US map, and who voted for who, you'll notice that the
large cities everywhere went blue, while the majority of the country
went red. Really, taking an axe to the Electoral College is no
better than what the Republicans did with Gerrymandering.
Oh, but it gets worse. This whole we
have to compromise BS that I keep hearing. Yeah, I don't have a
problem with compromising, not really. In a good compromise nobody
gets exactly what they want, both parties give up ground on something
they want. But what I am hearing out of many Clinton Liberals
(neo-liberal third way democrats) is that she went too far to the
left. I can tell you, she didn't go all that far to the left. The
problem was that she went just far enough to the left to pick up the
more moderate Sanders supporters, before swinging to her center right
roots. The fact of the matter is, neo-liberalism, this notion of
attempting to reconcile fiscal conservatism, free trade globalism,
lower taxes on the wealthy, and war hawkishness, all doomed Clinton,
because people are tired of it. You say that people are centrists
and as a result all candidates much be centrist, and that is
something you need to think about. Yes, ending at a centrist
position in a discussion is fine, it means that we haven't gone too
far one way or the other. But when you start out at the centrist
position and move far right, people get nothing that they want, a lot
they don't want, and that anger starts building.
The fact of the matter is, if so called
liberals (neo-liberals or centrist democrats) want to continue to
force the hand of actual liberals and progressives, elections are
going to continually get progressively worse. We have had 35 years
of neo-liberalism in our politics, hell most conservatives are
neo-liberal and don't even realize it. You can say that we shouldn't
let perfect be the enemy of good enough, but the fact is, good enough
just won't hack it anymore. You can get angry about it, but the fact
is, if you run a fair poll on most of the progressive's wish list,
you'd find that even the people in deep red states like those ideas.
People are tired of the Democratic Party, they are tired of the
hypocrisy shown by many liberals, and honestly, until we knock it
off, until we really step back and evaluate the people we are running
for office, it is going to be really hard for people like me to come
back into your fold, or to allow you into our fold. Sadly, most of
the so called liberals in the US don't seem to understand this.
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