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In reply to the discussion: At a minimum, could we please be honest about what and who we are fighting? [View all]keep_left
(2,696 posts)68. Apropos, here's an excerpt from a response to a post of mine from yesterday.
This is from DU poster "Cirsium".
There have been so many lost opportunities; Watergate, Iran-Contra, fake WMDs and Guantanamo, the 2008 crash, Trump's disastrous first term - we have had them on the ropes again and again, and we keep letting them back up.
We have kicked the can down the road for decades now hoping to avoid confrontation, hoping that things will work out, settling for small wins, celebrating moral victories and giving ourselves style points.
There is no more road remaining now.
As the Whigs discovered with the slave power, the longer you put off the inevitable confrontation, the worse it will eventually be when you finally have no choice but abject surrender or fighting back.
We have kicked the can down the road for decades now hoping to avoid confrontation, hoping that things will work out, settling for small wins, celebrating moral victories and giving ourselves style points.
There is no more road remaining now.
As the Whigs discovered with the slave power, the longer you put off the inevitable confrontation, the worse it will eventually be when you finally have no choice but abject surrender or fighting back.
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At a minimum, could we please be honest about what and who we are fighting? [View all]
maxrandb
Jan 18
OP
Well, we could start by NOT treating Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos as "indespensable"
maxrandb
Jan 18
#8
That ship sailed, sunk, and lays at the bottom of the sea gab. Time to move on.
bluesbassman
Jan 18
#17
blaming this all on Merrick Garland is wrong. I blame the media and SCOTUS far more
LymphocyteLover
Jan 18
#20
You honestly believe that Republicans would have seen the light then, if there had been
LymphocyteLover
Jan 18
#30
You mean if he was arrested? You think they would have just given up on him like that?
LymphocyteLover
Jan 18
#50
Michelle Obama got it right? She wanted us to take the high road? How does that fit?
LymphocyteLover
Jan 19
#100
As long as the social garbage sites serve as the principle source of 'media' consumed by the masses
NoMoreRepugs
Jan 18
#22
The Nazi Party began the process of building Volkswagen in 1937, but the company didn't produce cars in large
sop
Jan 18
#42
The real wolf IS here. "Overused" as the term might seem to you, all I see is people calling a spade a spade.
Karasu
Jan 19
#89
Since we just found out that many Americans have no idea what oligarchy is, we need to come up
summer_in_TX
Jan 19
#88
This is the stuff that is being pushed by the left-wing media because it gets good ratings.
everyonematters
Jan 19
#101