I'm a Partisan. So what?

[Mythsaje]

I stand for those who can't stand for themselves. The homeless and those who work multiple minimum wage jobs to keep a roof over their heads. I stand for those who are busy raising their kids and trying their hardest just to get by paycheck to paycheck to pay close attention to what's going on in Washington DC. I stand for those who had to take a five dollar an hour pay cut because their manufacturing job was outsourced and they had to scoop up the best job available before their unemployment ran out.

I believe in America, and I believe in Americans. I'm as aware as anyone here how the corporate media has influenced the whole political dialogue, operating at the behest of their corporate masters and the RW spin-meisters who use their bully pulpit to obfuscate the truth of the matter at every opportunity.

I stand for those who are relegated to second class citizens by the hypocritical posturing of the RW politicians, who use them to fuel outrage and hatred in the ignorant while hiding their own proclivities behind closed doors and public facades.

I stand for those who THOUGHT they were receiving an education in America, but have grown up to find so many important subjects woefully unattended. High School grads who can't balance a checkbook, or grasp compounded interest rates. Those who have bought into the whole "buy now-pay later" scam far too many of our politicians seem to take as "business as usual."

I stand for those with no medical care, or those suffering from illnesses so severe that their insurance doesn't even begin to cover the costs. I stand for children who will inherit the debt of several unnecessary wars that serve only to make the fat cats even fatter. Children whose chance of going to college is slipping away with every tuition hike, every lost job, every failure to deal with the corporate vampires that are busy sucking away at the opportunities they were allegedly promised as American citizens.

I stand against the destruction of the middle class and the dismemberment of the Constitution. I stand for the defense of the safety net, and the hope of each generation that the one that follows will have a better life than they did.

I stand for truth, justice, and hope for the future. I'm a partisan. I'm fighting out here on the digital frontier for what I believe in.

AND I WILL NOT BE SILENCED. EVER.

[flvegan]

1. Go alphabetical...K-U-C-...

Kucinich.

Don't be silenced. Ever.

[aquart]

2. That's nice, dear.

The rest of us have gathered here to exchange Thanksgiving recipes for baked babies and perhaps a tender toddler as a side dish.

[Mythsaje]

3. I don't know... I can think of several who are busy propping up a turkey.

:evilgrin:

[Der Blaue Engel]

15. Mmmmm....baked babies

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[Fredda Weinberg]

4. Can we be smart and effective partisans, please?

Polite would nice, but perhaps too much to expect ... but we'll try.

[Jim Sagle]

5. Who's "we"? You and your shadow?

[Mythsaje]

7. I much prefer "Who's we, Kemo Sabe--got mouse in pocket?" n/t

[Fredda Weinberg]

9. Aren't we all contributing members of DU here? Or have we decided

to defeat ourselves by dividing and allowing others to conquer?

[Mythsaje]

6. And where, precisely, has politeness gotten us with respect to the Republicans?

Nowhere. If we're polite, they ignore us. If we're honest but soft-spoken, they raise a hue and cry and force us to apologize. Only by being unapologetically strident, never giving quarter, do we have a chance against them.

[Fredda Weinberg]

8. I thought Bill Clinton was unfailingly polite. Do you disagree? n/t

[Mythsaje]

10. What does that have to do with anything?

He was crucified by the Republicans anyway.

This ain't the 1990s. They've carried us down a very bad road and we're not going to get off it by playing nice.

[Fredda Weinberg]

11. Perhaps it's our different perspective, but from where I sit ... our side is

prevailing in public opinion polls, is poised to sweep national government next year with a mandate for change and progress.

I think we agree on principles - I know we disagree on tactics. But you began this thread with a defensive tone that I think is uncalled for ... and wanted to test that supposition with a polite query.

[Usrename]

12. That's right, keep your powder dry!

Next year Schumer and Feinstein will denounce torture! That is, if we have a large enough majority.

Just wait, you'll see, and then all these doubting Thomases will be apologizing.

:grr::sarcasm:

[sampsonblk]

14. Post of the Day

Almost spilled my coffee. That was good stuff.

[Fredda Weinberg]

16. And our democratic leaders don't denouce torture now?

Tell me again ... you're a member of the Democratic party?

[Usrename]

17. You missed it, Schumer and Feinstein want waterboarding to be OK.

For them, there's nothing wrong with confirming an Attorney General who refuses to denounce this practice.

You do know that it's always been illegal and unconstitutional to torture people, throughout the entire history of this country, every since George Washington himself refused to allow the torture of loyalists during the Revolutionary War, don't you?

This Democratic Party that exists in your fantasy world is hardly the real Democratic Party. I really do wish that your fantasy version did exists. In reality, some of these folks are monsters, perhaps worse than Bush himself, because they're not stupid, they're just anti-American and evil.

[Mythsaje]

13. The corporate friendly, wrong-way Dems are selling us down the river.

We SHOULD be defensive.