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In reply to the discussion: CALL CONGRESS RIGHT FUCKING NOW!11!!1!! [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,020 posts)and they aren't always the same assholes because folks are captured by different industries so the onus kind of rotates around which leaves me to believe there are really more like 35-40 assholes but most of them play hero at one time or the other. Sure, there are some that are consistently assholes but their running mates change based on the issue and in any event they will be propped up by the party rather than culled which makes messaging a fucking mess because it is hard to attack the opposition without turning on "our own" so we end up tip toeing around the opposition and trying to make hay off of nuance that you still cannot keep on message or implement.
To make matters worse, the few actual liberals always fall in line so the center of gravity goes to the cats that have to be herded and they dictate the terms and still go off the reservation and in turn the party supports them.
At this point we don't have much of a party, just a confederation of folks that are anti-Republicans for widely varying reasons generally led by folks with a high level of ideological agreement with the opposition on fiscal and martial issues in a fiscally and militarily dominant society and instead focusing on social issues that won't impact bottom lines in any serious fashion and increase our ability to wage war.