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So here we are, still confined in the Netroots Ward of this Nationwide Nuthouse of Centrism, owned and operated by the Wall Street Foundation for Permanent Fiscal Fuckery, staffed and supervised by the best Centralizing Centralizers of Centrism money can buy, and presided over by the Head Nurse of Centrism, your friend and mine, Nurse Ratched . . .
Look into those eyes, you’ll see Centrism personified, Centrism epitomized, Centrism symbolized, manifested, and defined.
She knows what’s best for us. Centrism. She monitors the behavior of her patients very closely, especially our behavior here in the Netroots Ward. Her patience with us is wearing thin, we just won’t get with the program, we won’t take our medication, we won’t submit to her control. She’s not going to tolerate that, she never tolerates that.
I’ve watched her get more and more skillful over the years. Practice has steadied and strengthened her until now she wields a sure power that extends in all directions, I see her sit in the center of this web of wires like a watchful robot, tend her network with mechanical insect skill, know every second which wire runs where and just what current to send up to get the results she wants.
Her orderlies in the corporate media are all wired to that current, her orderlies in Congress are all wired to that current, her orderly in the White House is wired to that current. They’re doing her bidding, the Centrists have made their diagnoses, health care reform will get lobotomized, the EFCA will get lobotomized, real change itself will get lobotomized, she’ll double everyone’s daily dosage of Centrism medication, whoever won’t take it orally will get it anally.
But we don’t have to keep bending over. There’s a way out of here. There’s always been a way out of here.
The Overton Window is the way out of here. Real democracy is on the other side, it’s out there waiting for us. We need to shatter that fucking Window and climb through it. The glass in that window is thick, that water fountain of truth is heavy, but we have to lift it, we have to smash our way out of here with it.
Most of the other patients in this Nationwide Nuthouse pay no attention to us, they think we’re just d-d-deaf and d-d-dumb bloggers. We haven’t given them much reason to think otherwise.
Yet.
We know what needs to be done, but so far, none of us has been able to lift that fountain of truth even an inch off the floor, much less pick it up. Most won’t even try. They say it’s too heavy. They said that during the Florida Recount, they said it when all the lunatics in the Bush Ward were howling for war with Iraq, they said it when the 2004 Election was stolen, they said it when they opposed Impeachment.
They’re still telling us that fountain of truth is too heavy, so we have to forget about torture prosecutions, forget about ending NSA spying, forget about GLBT equality, forget about the EFCA, forget about single payer health care reform. Do something productive, they tell us, clap louder for Obama. That’s the mantra of the Dkos Ward patients. More and Better Excuses is their motto. Confinement in the largest ward in the Netroots Wing of this Nuthouse of Centrism is their claim to fame.
When they aren’t busy yelling “don’t touch that fountain, it’s too heavy!”, they tell each other things aren’t as bad as they used to be, they tell each other things aren’t getting worse quite as fast, they put on their dancing shoes, do that Democratic Democratism Dance of theirs, and if you don’t dance along you get TR’ed into oblivion.
We’ve all been there. We’ve all seen it. Yet most of us keep going back for more. Why? They’ll never let anyone lift that fountain of truth, anyone who tries gets mocked and ridiculed as “a d-d-deaf and d-d-dumb purist”.
Those Democratic Democratism Dancers are right about one thing. That fountain of truth IS heavy. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be lifted, that doesn’t mean we can’t shatter that Overton Window with it. If every progressive would just lift their share of the weight, that Window would be gone, there’d be nothing left of it but broken glass on the ground.
We have to shatter that Overton Window.
If we don’t, we’ll never get out here.
We’ll never see real democracy.
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We don’t need anyone’s permission to tell the truth. About Obama or anything else.
I’d like to watch the baseball game.
Your stutter’s back. I think you need a therapist again, but nurse Ratched will probably want to give you electric shock therapy for it.
frightened that the looneys will get back in power but don’t seem to notice that they have been dosed with the same meds. that they dispensed to the crazy right. When you want to be normal and normalcy is defined by Nurse Ratchet then it’s really hard to open a stuck window. Broken glass can always be swept up and fresh air will clear the mind and allow you to see that there is no need to be in the center of the drugged kool aide induced nightmare. Outside you can actually define your own center and experience freedom, the best drug of all.
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