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In reply to the discussion: I just cracked the DU analysis code [View all]ElboRuum
(4,717 posts)"The next step might get people off their butts"
To do what? To vote for what? To believe in what? To analyze what?
To these people, pointing out the failures of whoever happens to be in charge or in the spotlight at any given moment is, for them, the end of the game, mission accomplished. You're right, detailed solutions ARE complicated. And maybe it does require access to information not available to the general public, but without a detailed solution, there is no further that this brand of hyperliberalism can go.
The "hopey-changey" brigade who thinks that anyone who believes that Obama is doing anything positive is a sheep or a moron or a fascist tool are the biggest hypocrites of all. Why? Because if "hope and change" aren't going to accomplish anything, then "concern and dissent" types are fixing to do even less, and quite honestly, that's fine given how much personal responsibility any of them will take for the ramifications of their positions.
Fuck details. I'll take a vague, chunky, poorly-conceived idea that might seem to follow from the big idea as a next step in lieu of a detailed solution. But I can't even get that. Right now, those on DU that are looking for their internet validation need only the following formula:
1) Bash Obama
2) ????
3) Profit!
Until that changes, and I hear an actual call to action that doesn't involve something like "wake up, sheeple" as it's primary raison d'etre, the whole lot of them can go pound sand.