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It may be time to utter the “unutterable”.
There’s a phenomenon called “core accretion” in the world of astrophysicists. It refers to the process by which little planets become big planets during solar system formation.
During this process, the biggest and strongest of the planetesimals gobble up the smaller ones. And the character of the new planet takes on the combined character of all the rocks it has accreted in the process.
It works a little like this:
If the Democrats continue to take this country the direction they’ve been taking it all the way through 2010, it may be time that the Democrats are done. If the Democrats were supplanted by another Party or Parties, what would happen next? What to do, this would bring chaos and political defeat!
Not really.
Not that I agreed with him, but another commenter made a great point to me that the Democrats just won’t listen to election results and the obvious writing on the wall, but instead will take the mere fact that Democrats voted for Republicans and use that as a signal that they aren’t right wing enough.
Pray tell, what would be more right wing than the Republicans? The Democrats don’t do “right wing” well.
But I take this to mean that the Democrats are going to all out corporatist and try to pass bullshit legislation mocked up to appear populist but will be all corporatist — and the Republicans, waiting in their vulture fashion, will laugh and say no — even when to say yes would be to do the exact thing those corporations want. Just to make Democrats look weak and stupid. As they are, weak and stupid by their own words.
All fucking year.
And my question would be .. how is this different than 2009? How are they gonna be even more right wing without just giving up and saying “Ok, we’re all Republicans now”?
Yeah, they can’t pass legislation with 59 votes in the Senate. I love it.
A 60 vote majority only comes once a generation if that. And now they have 59, and they can do nothing.
So, the only thing that we, the serfs on the street can do — scream at them to do something. All year long.
But then, the analysis changes. If they’re like this all 2010 and are turned out of office, it’s time we finally got rid of the Democratic Party. If a party won’t hear the people, they have to be disposed of.
And, I feel, everyone has been dancing around this point. The Democrats are eternal. All hail the Democrats. Except, well, when you scream and yell at them because they are insulated and don’t hear the message of the people. Repeat, rinse, let the Republicans win, do it all again.
Bullshit.
Abandon them. Join another party. It doesn’t matter what party. I say this especially for the independents – Join something in 2011.
You see, it doesn’t matter what you join, as long as it is not one of the two major parties.
Like the Greens except for x, y and z? Don’t worry .. when they suddenly become 10 times larger, their character will change to reflect the new entrants — heck, it has happened to the Democrats when large numbers of do nothing corporatists and lackeys joined it. It happened to the Republicans when they got taken over first by bigots, then by corporations, then by people like Teabaggers (feh!).
This is the process of human core accretion. Little rocks joining bigger rocks, and all the rocks heating up, fusing, and the character of the combined entity becoming something of the sum of all the joining bodies, together.
And so, if some people were to join the Greens, some the Peace and Freedom Party, and others other parties like the libertarians. Rejoice in it. It’s a time in history when the two major parties may have to be fractured into a million pieces, if they won’t heed the will of the People.
Don’t worry about it — we will have order again, when the fracture comes together again by accretion you will have a new leftist party. Maybe several new parties. Even to the extent do-nothing corporatists join. Nothing delivers a message like tearing a party asunder. And, maybe, just maybe, we’ll be able to, when the chaotic, disordered political period is reassembling, pass laws to make minor parties more able to get into the system and change it from within. The beginnings if not the ends of a true multi-party democracy.
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and the same corporate powered candidates that talk one game and legislate another.
I recently chose to become an Independent. That makes me someone to woo, rather than someone to take for granted and ding a dozen times a day for money I haven’t got to support candidates and policies I don’t like. Never been much of a ‘joiner’ anyway, as Independent I can throw my support toward whoever deserves it and not be on anybody’s ding-list!
Guess that makes me a wayward meteor with an unpredictable orbit. Suits me fine… ยง;o)
the dems and rethugs deserve to go down together.
And Barack, Alfred E. Newman of Mad Magazine. Yes, it’s finally all coming together. And Joe Biden is Mr. Rogers.
It’s all just one fun neighborhood in a house on Pennsylvania Ave.
A few block away is the Capitol, where the Marx Bros., the Three Stooges, Abbot and Costello and Laurel n’ Hardy discuss the serious business of the day. Where every hallway finds a door to another hallway.
And finally, we get to the Supreme Court: The place that time forgot. Where a stupid holding is not penalized. Where “the thing speaks for itself” so Clarence doesn’t ever need to talk. And where a lifetime job makes thinking unnecessary. What a perfect piece of architecture is our Supreme Court building: An exaggerated Greek edifice where aristocratic decisions must be made in order to keep the columns polished.
I don’t vote for people who actively support taking my tax dollars and turning them into bullets to kill people who don’t threaten me.
That’s it.
So far, I have not been able to vote for a Democrat or a Republican presidential candidate, though I might vote for John Lewis here in Atlanta.
If the Democratic Party won’t listen to the voters, then the voters need to find a party that will. And of course I don’t mean the Republicans, because they don’t listen either–they just do a more convincing job of pretending to, by giving their base a few crumbs. With this current administration, Democratic voters aren’t even getting crumbs. Lifelong Democrats are getting arrogance, insult, and attempts at marginalization from the White House. If the 11-dimensional geniuses in the White House think they can kick Democrats out of the Democratic Party, who do they imagine is going to replace us?