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In reply to the discussion: Greenwald: Democratic Party priorities [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,020 posts)pro-civil liberties, anti-police state, anti-corporate capture, pro-privacy vision is demanded and one of economic justice at that (which of course isn't coming from ol Doc Crackpot in any shape, form, or fashion).
That being the case any push of these concepts is a far better than average one. You don't think ten years down this rabbit hole and going deeper by the day, that maybe it is crucial that someone in the spotlight be talking about protecting due process or over a generation of eating our own at a ruinous cost that it is time to end the failed drug war or that maybe we need to cut out the toxic, self defeating, stupid, unwinnable, destabalizing, often insane, and very pricey wars that are mostly killing folks by the thousands that were't paying us any mind until we occupied their countries and install our toadies that murder and plunder at will?
The dumbest thing in political history would be for this lilly livered and/or complicit party to allow the misconception to get set in that the only path to the ideas is through the born failed right wing libertarian ideology.
I don't know how anyone expects an anti-civil liberties, pro-war, pro-drug war, pro-corporate, pro-police state, program cutting, anti-public education, bipartisan Democratic party to hold up. The party and the partisan rank and file are insanely trying to run away from about any and all issues and steering the electorate in a visceral us against them devoid of ideals, expectations, accountability, or even the interest of the nation and our people.
The easy excuse for any new depth in depravity? The other guy is sure to do far worse, especially now that this is out there.
How low can we go? To whatever depths the TeaPubliKlans are willing to go is the only possible check on this race to the bottom.