Reply #9: As an Independent, I find your broad-brush stereotype to be offensive. [View All]

Partisans: too fucking lazy or afraid of dissent to speak out and educate the political base.

It's a political FIGMO attitude of disengagement. (Fuck It! Got My Opinion!)

No small part of my disgust at the REichbot Republicans is their habit of swallowing, hook-line-and-sinker, whatever talking point their partisan herdsmen program them to spew. If there's a posture that's unthinking and uninformed, it's any brainless partisan!

As a liberal, I'm appalled at the overwhelming number of self-proclaimed (and habitually partisan) 'liberals' who, over the last 30 years, obsessively opted for discretion rather than valor in speaking out against the idiocy spewed by the crazies. Where the hell have the liberals been as the extreme right-wingers monopolized talk radio? Where the hell have the liberals been as the extreme right-wingers monopolized "Christian" groups? Where the hell have the liberals been as the extreme right-wingers monopolized school boards?

I can't even begin to count the times that so-called 'liberals' just walked away from right-wing water-cooler talk. ("It's a waste of time." they'd opine.) Even in my own family, "we don't talk politics because it causes hard feelings" rules gatherings ... even though the Bushbots stll love to plant rheotrical IEDs in any conversation. How many times have I heard DUers say they avoid poltical talk at family gatherings? That's surrender! That's cowardice! Effete elitism that eschews getting its hands dirty is what surrenders democracy. That's what happened in Germany in the 20's. The political left needs street-fighters like the Guardian Angels.