Breaking eggs to make an omelet, right?
Hillary might have had a shitty State Dept. track record, continues to have shitty trickle-down Reaganesque supply-side economic views, she hasn't met a job that she doesn't want to send to Mexico or Asia, supported shitty tough on crime prison bills that ruined the lives of millions... but who cares?
Clearly, some people are entitled, especially if they are rich well connected Wall Street Democrats. Some are even celebrated for breaking rules. They call it leadership, crafty, political know-how, plucky and empowered, ready to turn at the slightest opportunity. Some folks even believe chronic ethical lapses are the highest qualifications for President of the USA.
But that's not for us, is it? That's for the Clinton class citizens; the entitled ones whose net worth affords them a bit more freedom and indiscretion from the rules that the little people have to follow. We're all equal, it's just that some are more equal than others. And some people have to follow more rules than others. Just ask your friendly neighborhood Police Dept or NSA.
When Democrats go down the drain in mid-terms and general elections for being authority-bound, unpopular and out of touch, in a misguided effort to win the hearts and minds of conservatives, I guess we're supposed to take pride in the fact that we enforce party discipline. Our conservative leaders, like Debbie Wasserman Shultz, will explain the electoral disasters by attacking liberals. They'll say "if only they would shut up and follow our rules, we'd win!."
The irony should be obvious and familiar: political authority type demands strict compliance and loyalty in order to protect a divisive, polarizing candidate famous for ethical lapses and a lack of discipline. We all know censorship prevents solid citizens who have the time and ability to make a difference from engaging in critical speech. With censorship, we lose the essential voices necessary to expose corruption. Perhaps that's the threat from liberals that worries Democratic Party leadership the most. We sweat the details.
If there is a god, let them save us from the political party ideologues. They represent the prudish, right wing intolerance at our American political core.
It's a big suck factor for quality of life in the USA and it is suppressing the vote at exactly the wrong time.
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