tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post8869495593523854335..comments2024-03-16T10:25:12.712-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: Go To Hell, Democratic Socialists And In These TimesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-88890283198181224812016-11-06T18:09:25.115-05:002016-11-06T18:09:25.115-05:00They are entirely irresponsible.
I look at thes...They are entirely irresponsible. <br /><br />I look at these guys in groups like the Democratic Socialists and at the history of such groups in the United States and realize that, as compared to the boring old Democratic Party, they've done absolutely nothing but give scribblers and academics a platform to strike poses on. They are worse than useless because they encourage people to waste their times, their lives and their votes on nonsense. <br /><br />In These Times is just one of a number of play-left entities I think the left would be better off if they just ended. I am thinking of writing a serious proposal for Democrats to swamp the Green Party and end it in the next four years. That is if the idiots don't do that, themselves by accident. <br /><br />I think I despise the play left almost as much as the part of the Republican party that enables the worst among them, they pretty much do the same thing. <br /><br />I wonder if Barbara Ehrenreich really ever made anyone's life better, I wonder if she's ever had any role in ever passing a better law. I strongly doubt the Democratic Socialists of American have or In These Times. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-2982324476022763712016-11-06T17:28:44.244-05:002016-11-06T17:28:44.244-05:00Dylan Roof was mentioned in the news recently, bec...Dylan Roof was mentioned in the news recently, because he's going to court next week. He went to a church, sat down among decent people, talked to them for over an hour, and then pulled out a gun and cold-bloodedly shot every one of them. Why? Because he thought he was starting a "race war" that would cleanse the body politic and set all things aright.<br /><br />Just like the "terrorists" who have killed people in various incidents in the U.S. in the past few years (although when it's a white guy, he's a "troubled loner," never a terrorist or representative of the danger posed by Muslims or blacks. Funny, that.). Timothy McVeigh bombed the federal building in OKC for the same reason: he thought he'd trigger the civil insurrection to set all things right. Ammon Bundy thought so to, when he took over a wildlife refuge in Oregon.<br /><br />What's the difference between that motivation and refusing to vote for Hillary Clinton because you have "principles"? Vote as you please, act as you are motivated; but don't try to stand apart from the consequences. Don't pretend your actions are outside the realm of responsibility and you are superior by doing what you do.<br /><br />That really does make you no different than McVeigh or Roof or Bundy. They thought their actions justified criminal violence; denouncing Hillary in the name of ideological purity is justifying the disaster of a Trump presidency because you think it will make a difference in the long run; or you just too "pure" to sully the "sacrament" of your vote.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com