Liberal’s New(*) Role: Whipping Boy

[phantom power]

(*)If by "new" he means "30 years"

I’m not worried about the “professional left” says or does and haven’t been for a long time and it’s not just because they no longer have any real power. They don’t but my lack of attention to much they bring to any discussion is that I often disagree, if not with what they’re saying, then the way or the reasons they’re saying it.

What they DO have however, is just as much right not to vote for a Democratic candidate because that candidate doesn’t support their agenda as the NeoDems did not to vote for Mitt Romney. They don’t betray any one or any political party by not voting for a person or a party that doesn’t support them any more than the rest of us do by not voting Republican.

And there’s this: I’m not hearing anyone from the “professional left” proposing anything that would take food off my table, deprive me of the meds I take for life threatening conditions or remove the roof from over my head… the ONLY three things that really matter to someone like me. I’m sure as hell however, hearing people claiming to be part of TODAY’S left who are perfectly willing to compromise any and all of those things, quite often for no other reason than the administration has expressed a willingness to do so.

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Liberals have one function and one function only as far as today’s Democratic party is concerned and that’s to take the blame when one of their guys loses because you didn’t feel like voting for someone who didn’t represent your beliefs just to keep the “other” side from winning. Keep letting them shove you into that shoe box and putting rocks on the lid and it means the end of any concept of loyal opposition and therefore democracy in this country.

http://grandpasmad.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/liberals-new-role-whipping-boy/

[djean111]

1. Yep.

Nailed it.

[Autumn]

2. Hey I really like that cranky old man. He makes a lot of sense.

[99Forever]

3. This :

"Liberals have one function and one function only as far as today’s Democratic party is concerned and that’s to take the blame when one of their guys loses because you didn’t feel like voting for someone who didn’t represent your beliefs just to keep the “other” side from winning."

The truth is ugly, very ugly.

[yurbud]

7. corporate Dems make elections close enough to lose by running and governing with conservative ideas

so voters don't see the difference their vote makes, and stay home at elections.

Changes for ordinary people are made with an exacto knife, changes for the rich are made with a back hoe.

Republicans just dispense with even the exacto knife, and convince their base that the back hoe is working for them (even as it tears down their house with their kids in it).

[Egalitarian Thug]

11. Nailed it, again. n/t

[yurbud]

13. Would you like your corporate government with or without Klan sheets and Jesus riding a dinosaur?

[Marr]

8. Yep-- they've been doing that since the mid-90's at least.

When corporate Democrats lose an election, it's the fault of liberals who didn't vote for them-- and proof that the left should be ignored and marginalized in the future.

When corporate Democrats win an election, it's a vindication of their center/right approach to politics-- and proof that the left should be ignored and marginalized in the future.

[99Forever]

9. Exactly.

We are the whipping boy for the Corporate Democrats. Period.

[Egalitarian Thug]

14. Many of us have forgotten that Ross Perot put Clinton in the White house.

He only got 43% of the vote in his 370 electoral win. He also had the House (270-164-1) and the Senate (55-45). He sacrificed the entire progressive agenda, including health care, in exchange for the DLC's merger-mania and a toothless, pointless gun ban.

[rhett o rick]

4. We must kick the conservatives out of our party. Make them go back where they came

from. Just because they let their party go to hell, they cant be stinking up our party.

[kurtzapril4]

5. Yep. The third way should

hit the highway. Let them vote for the people who share their beliefs. Republicans.

[tblue]

6. If not for the Left, the only voices would be Center->Right

We are profoundly essential and must NEVER be silenced. Goodness! God help us if this Administration is the most liberal voice in the nation.

[John2]

10. I still don't

see the name of the author. Who is he hiding from?

[shcrane71]

12. I regret that I have but one kick to give.