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Covid the Cow's avatar

Great article. It is a stunning irony that Warmonger Junior and her father, Satan, are dragged out to be embraced as heroes of the Democrats. This is why I became a GREEN in the mid 90's. After watching Clinton "reform" welfare, criminal sentencing, credit card debt and wall street rules, I had seen enough of neoliberal madness to read the writing on the wall. The recent sprint toward authoritarianism by the Dems is not particularly a surprise, but it is the low point of our national quest for a free society.

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Anti-Hip's avatar

Agreed how sickening this has all become! The true opposition to the U.S. people keeps coming more clearly into focus. How can a sane American, that is -- one with the switch on upstairs, left or right -- not feel our world has gone mad?

"All those things Trump is rumored to be, Dick Cheney actually is." Glenn Greenwald also expounded on this well at the beginning of the Biden administration: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/no-matter-the-liberal-metric-chosen

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Robert Hunter's avatar

Trump is a money sick amoral narcissist bloviating short fingered vulgarian! Cheney is an evil P O S and the "democratic?" party is celebrating him. That means democrats are amoral and very sick and will sleep with the devil for power!

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Running Burning Man's avatar

True. However ... All parties "will sleep with the devil for power". It just is more apparent who your bedmates are when you are in power.

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

Those bedmates are beautiful while they help you attain power - they only become regretful choices in the morning light.

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L.A. Sanchez's avatar

Except…instead of a walk of shame they strut out into the light of day w bed head, club clothes and smeared lipstick. When they get home they swear that “nothing happened.”

Or something like that. I wouldn’t know.

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LJN's avatar

See “David Duke.”

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Robert Hunter's avatar

Certainly, power corrupts and, you're right, you never really know what a person is like until they have the power to show you.

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BradK (Afuera!)'s avatar

Proving yet again that the person doing is far more important in determining position along the good-evil spectrum than the actual deed done.

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DC Lovell's avatar

I became an independent because of Iraq, and the purple finger campaign showing how the Iraqi's adored democracy. Watched the movie "W" again recently, and while I thought it was a bit harsh when it first came out, I think it was spot on now.

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Cowgirlcontrarian's avatar

And the "left" hates Oliver Stone now. He got booed on the Colbert Show for his very good "Interviews with Putin". Strange times!

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Gnomon Pillar's avatar

"Mostly?" Who are the "left" unattached to this brain-washed swarm? You're becoming charitable in your estimation of the "left." Unless, say, the remaining numbers of the left can be equally dismissed, perhaps as an insignificant school of wrong-thinking poltroons, hindered by bad hygiene, prone to histrionics, notoriously bad tippers, and the type of people one first pares from the guest list when the guest list requires paring.

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Yawny's Digest's avatar

Likewise, though I hope you know that if you voted for Nader in 2000 like I did, then WE are actually responsible for the Iraq War. Or at least so I've been told.

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Donald's avatar

I saw a liberal at a blog comment section a few years ago blaming Nader for the Iraq War, then in the next paragraph praise Hillary Clinton, who strongly supported going into Iraq. Partisan thinking is a disease.

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Covid the Cow's avatar

Considering I live in California, that's highly unlikely. But I can tell you without any equivacation that any person who voted GREEN in a competitive state in a close election like Bush v. Gore, WOULD NEVER HAVE VOTED FOR THE DEMS and is not sorry they didn't win. If you are that committed to not voting for GORE, you REALLY HATE THE DEMS.

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Oregoncharles's avatar

Funny how the Dems never take responsibility for throwing away elections - somehow it's the fault of a smallish 3rd party. I had no idea we were so powerful.

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

Read some conservative rags and you'd be amazed by the size and influence of the libertarian wing.

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rtj's avatar

Libertarians have their own mag, Reason.

https://reason.com/

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rtj's avatar

And some of the best anti-war and civil liberties defenders we have.

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Indecisive decider's avatar

Depends on how you define libertarian. Both parties have long abandoned any pretense of liberalism or conservative leadership. It's now just whoever writes the biggest checks. That's the only loyalty test.

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Rather Curmudgeonly's avatar

You will find a number of conservatives who are of the opinion it is Republican devotion to libertarian ideas that is costing them elections. If you aren't laughing already, you should be.

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Indecisive decider's avatar

Agreed. We continue to reach new levels of absurdity. Party loyalists are as dim as brand loyalists, but at least with Brand loyalty, there's very little thinking occurring.

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Sevender's avatar

🤣 Greens are now fucking pandemofascists ffs. Hope it makes you feel better to have a trendier excuse for ending democracy.

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Covid the Cow's avatar

People don’t join the Green Party in the USA because they align with every stance of the Greens. They join because they are defying the corporatist centrist warmongering Wall Street pandering criminal elitists who have had the majority in congress forever and are responsible for every draconian attack on working people.

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nedweenie's avatar

They are Gender Identity ideologues too. There were big dust ups over trans rights vs women's rights in the Greens, (both in the US & UK) and trans rights won.

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DC Lovell's avatar

Greens: the softer version of tyranny.

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