Because, let’s face it you fly-over country hicks with your grubby little thoughts of family and freedom.
You.Don’t.Count. And we are tired of pretending you do.
Committed Democrats and liberal-leaning interest groups are facing a reality in which any policy gains they achieve are going to come through the profligate use of executive authority, and Clinton is almost uniquely suited to deliver the goods. More than almost anyone else around, she knows where the levers of power lie, and she is comfortable pulling them, procedural niceties be damned.
Liberals need an iron fist in the White House to make progress.
Democrats have almost no chance of securing a majority in the US Senate and even worse odds of securing a majority in the House. So if there is a future for making progressive policy, that future is executive action. […]
But she truly is the perfect leader for America’s moment of permanent constitutional crisis: a person who cares more about results than process, who cares more about winning the battle than being well-liked, and a person who believes in asking what she can get away with rather than what would look best. In other words, as nervous as the rumblings of scandal around her emails make many Democrats, the exact same qualities that led to the server drama are the ones that, if she wins, will make her capable of delivering on the party’s priorities in a way few others could.
Hope the fat little fascist chokes on a free-range chicken wing.
“delivering on the party’s priorities”
so sayeth fucking commie scum
“One legacy of that original “correct” understanding is a third peculiarity that makes our systems different from other modern dictatorships: it commands an incomparably more precise, logically structured, generally comprehensible and, in essence, extremely flexible ideology that, in its elaborateness and completeness, is almost a secularized religion. It of fears a ready answer to any question whatsoever; it can scarcely be accepted only in part, and accepting it has profound implications for human life. In an era when metaphysical and existential certainties are in a state of crisis, when people are being uprooted and alienated and are losing their sense of what this world means, this ideology inevitably has a certain hypnotic charm. To wandering humankind it offers an immediately available home: all one has to do is accept it, and suddenly everything becomes clear once more, life takes on new meaning, and all mysteries, unanswered questions, anxiety, and loneliness vanish. Of course, one pays dearly for this low-rent home: the price is abdication of one’s own reason, conscience, and responsibility, for an essential aspect of this ideology is the consignment of reason and conscience to a higher authority. The principle involved here is that the center of power is identical with the center of truth.”
http://vaclavhavel.cz/showtrans.php?cat=eseje&val=2_aj_eseje.html&typ=HTML
Thursday, October 08, 2015
How the Left Rebranded as Non-Ideological
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-left-rebranded-as-non-ideological.html
joy division
Joy Division – Digital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qgFGqJz9yc
Shorter Yglesias: Anything is acceptable if it increases the progressives’ power.
They’ll respect the constitution again when Ted Cruz is president.
Yggy should be careful what he wishes for. Tyrants routinely find, once they’ve consolidated their power, that those who helped them are now getting in the way.
That’s the funny bit though McG: he lives in D.C. with the Va. State Flag staring him in the face just across the river, and yet he takes no lesson.
….and now we know how Hitler came to power…..
And Mussolini made the trains run on time!
Good ol’ Mussolini
Jerry Brown is going to make trains run faster than time once he disposes of all the suicidal killjoys in California. That’s just how he rolls.
Thinking in it, seems guns should be readily available if you’re serious about accommodating the suicidal, alas, consistency is not a thing with proggs. Except for the trains.
I’m thinking the prisons would be a great place to promote the Gov’s new right to die. Especially the no parole lifers. I bet bunches of them would be eager for a pill giving them the dignity of their own fate.
McGehee wrote: Yggy should be careful what he wishes for. Tyrants routinely find, once they’ve consolidated their power, that those who helped them are now getting in the way.
I’m just finishing re-reading Book I of The Gulag Archipelago and it’s been enjoyable to read how ruthlessly and cruelly the Bolshes treated those who helped them consolidate their Power And Control. The Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries received the worst psychological and physical tortures. You had a [relatively] better time of it if you had served The Tsar or fought with The Whites.
They couldn’t abide getting flak from those who, having aided them, now expected something in return.
Yes…and they knew what had happened behind the scenes.