How Quickly Some Forget

So...

We're hearing cries (from the media and various alleged "pundits--well, the usual suspects, really, and the suggestion from a certain candidate as well) for "unity" and an end to "partisan bickering."

"Bickering" can be defined as "pointless" arguments with no purpose behind them. The American Heritage Dictionary defines it as "A petty quarrel; a squabble."

Oh, we're not bickering. In fact, it's offensive that anyone would suggest such a thing.

We're in a fight for the future of all of us. Not just Americans, but the whole human race. This isn't between some school kids calling each other names just to prove how tough they are. This isn't a sitcom marriage. It's a VERY serious disagreement about the rights and responsibilities of us, as U.S. citizens, as men and women, as human beings.

Anyone who calls it a mere "squabble" doesn't take it seriously enough. Not by a long shot.

We'll make peace with the Republicans. On OUR terms. As soon as they surrender their racist, sexist, homophobic, holier than thou certainty that THEY are right and WE are wrong. As soon as they apologize for calling us traitors, or allowing others who claim to represent them to do it. As soon as they apologize for branding people like Natalie Maines, Dick Durbin, Tom Dashle, and others as "traitors" or "terrorist sympathizers" for disagreeing with President George W. Bush on the way to handle the so-called "War On Terror."

We'll bury the hatchet as soon as they repudiate the self-centered, self-aggrandizing, and inflexible "conservative" notion of "voodoo economics." As soon as they recognize that not everyone in America gets an even shot at success, and as soon as they join us in fighting to change that. As soon as they step up to defend the middle class, and the helping hand the middle class extends downward to those in need. As soon as they realize that the ultra-rich shouldn't be able to decide for the rest of us what our priorities should be.

We'll shake hands with the Republicans as soon as they admit that their religion, and their religious book, should NOT be the answer to all arguments about the nature of the cosmos, the history of the human race, and whether gays have the right to live in peace. We wouldn't put up with the Taliban here in the United States, and we will NOT put up with similar inflexibility from them either.

We'll kiss and make up when they recognize that we have a duty to this planet, to all the other forms of life that live here, and that we are both responsible for the damage we've caused and for striving to fix as much of it as we can. When they roll up their sleeves and stand beside us, working to make this world a better place again. When they too decide that the long-term fate of their children and grandchildren are more important than short-term profits.

We'll play nice as soon as they stop insulting us, insulting our intelligence, treating us like second-class citizens, and tell people like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, and their ilk that they DO NOT speak for them. As soon as they make it clear they DON'T want us jailed, or killed, for the crime of disagreeing with them or the Bush administration. As soon as they stand up and say to their representatives that they respect the Constitution and don't respect anyone who refuses to abide by it.

We'll work for "unity" as soon as they repudiate all the evil that has been done in their names--as soon as they call for justice for those who've been ignored in Katrina's aftermath, those who've been sent off to war to die for a lie, those who've been turned out on the street because we have other priorities than protecting the most vulnerable among us.

Until then...

No quarter given, no quarter asked.

It's on.

On edit: Can I get some more feedback on this lounge thread? I would've posted it in GD, but didn't think it was really appropriate. I'd like some critique of some of my promo material, if nothing else.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7334924&mesg_id=7334924

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of this post!

BRAVO Mythsaje!

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Quarter: Exemption from being immediately put to death,
granted to a vanquished opponent by the victor in a battle or fight;
clemency or mercy shown in sparing the life of one who surrenders.

No one has surrendered yet and
I will give no quarter , for the battle is not over.

jobs right. If they did, we'd be hearing about the Sibel Edmonds case all over the place. This story has very clear implications as to the corruption that is rampant in our gov't. Can we be expected to believe we still have our vote after this? Two stolen elections & now this bombshell!

They haven't even begun to hear bickering! I'd like to know how Rudy with his 911 trump card feels about our gov't selling off nuclear arms techonology to illegal proliferators.

Please, do tell us, Rudy, just how flippin safe YOU and the machine are going to make this country! Crimes of the highest order have been perpetrated on all of America!

Yeah, we've got bipartisans, bipartisan sell-outs in DC. I wonder what Clinton has to say?

How about some UNITY against the propaganda and crime machine?

Simply excellent!

K&R!

It sure as hell is. Excellent post.

I LIVE for your posts. Love.

Kick!

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We've had a pair of Constitution-shredding war criminals in the White House for 7 years, and the mainstream media punditocracy acts as though its politics as usual.

Nothing to see here folks, move along. Have some more bread and circus.

Behaving as if what's happening under Bush is just a normal part of America's democracy

and people grow accustomed and accepting of it all :(

We've become a nation of cowards and criminals ... and now we're being told that's just fine. Bullshit.

didn't want bipartisanship when they were in the majority? Their idea of bipartisanship is for Democrats to go along with whatever the republicans want to do.

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Of course one can always capitulate to end the unpleasantness of the battle. One can then deny that this is the case to make the poison go down a little more easily.

I think that this is what many people are tempted to do.

Talk about tossing away the "old" politics, about "transcending right versus left," and about "healing the divisions" always means make the left disappear. The right represents entrenched power and wealth. They aren't going anywhere. As I write this, the forces of reaction and privilege are gearing up for a murderous fight to the death against us. They have the resources and power to destroy us. We can't "hope" them into submission. We can't make the threat disappear by denying that it exists.

It will be the left that is disappeared in the name of "unity" and "healing." First the ideas of the left will be discredited and mocked. Then the voices from the left will be excluded from the discussion. If that doesn't work, and it won't work forever, people on the left themselves will be disappeared.

Business as usual is business as usual, and hanging a "change" sign on a program to preserve the status quo won't...well, it won't change anything.

I found Hart's recent remarks to be revealing as he endorsed the "hope" and "change" candidate - "this election is not about power, it is about transition." I think he is making an accurate statement. There will be no change in power - those who have it will retain it, and those who do not will continue to be shut out. We will have a transition to a new and more effective and popular set of leaders who will be in charge of protecting the power balance as it now exists.

That will be the "change" and that is what we are being asked to place our "hope" in - the faces and the rhetoric will change in exciting new ways that make us feel good, and we can hope that by ignoring the reality of power and how it impacts our lives it will go away.

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and so many want to make excuses for them..

like the argument that there isn't any obligation or duty to follow the law or the Constitution

I'm not ready to play nice.
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Thank you for eloquently expressing the moral horror we feel when asked to make peace with those who would destroy us and this land.

Very well said.

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-Laelth

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Well said.

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Thank God it was only a dream!

Bravo! Bravo!

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