The Progressive bus has left the station Edited on Wed Sep-27-06 09:36 PM by DancingBear (Note: This is as honest as I can be. I am angry, and I hope that I am not pushed over the side by those who see criticism as a grounds for dismissal. If after today you don't think something is very very wrong with the leadership then I am truly at a loss)
Sorry everyone, but the last bus to Progressive America left the station early today and was last seen at the paint shop being covered in magnets and American flags. Now operated by Disney, it plans no further passenger service, but will instead act as the official Democratic Party Tour Bus for the ’06 “Gutless Wonders” midterm elections. It will, of course, be painted Chicken Yellow, as if anyone needed a reminder.
Aren’t we all proud today, fellow progressives, that the folks we used to try and cheer for now routinely sell us down the river for fear of being “labeled” by the other side? For fear of being labeled soft, they wipe their mouths with our civil rights, and for fear of being labeled weak they wipe their asses with the Constitution. The labels they fear so much make them cower in the corner like beaten dogs, afraid to so much as whimper for fear of being hit again.
What they failed to realize, however, is that this last little foray into Chickenshit Central brought with it a new set of labels, and here’s the kicker – they’re coming from within. They can’t hear them or see them, for with shuttered eyes and covered ears the world to them looks like a giant white rotunda, but they are there, and rumor has it that the people who used to buy the product have finally come to the sad conclusion that the marketing program they bought into ain’t worth shit.
They are the worst of cowards, for they abdicate their responsibility as stewards of democracy for a quick-buck paycheck and the well loved “wink, wink, nod, nod” later on down the road.
You get it now, don’t you? The whole bill of goods that is “you need us to protect our democracy” is bullshit, right? This “oh, just wait until is elected why then it will be better – bullshit, the sequel. These absurd tomes about how it REALLY works in the Senate and the House – you know, the inside baseball horseshit that the Bobblehead Chorus reads and shouts “yes –give me more!” as if on the throws of the mother of all political orgasms? Sorry, wrong number.
How can you buy it after today? How can you believe that these same cowards who today were literally willing to give George W. Bush a free pass to lock ME up if he doesn’t like this post will all of a sudden find a moral compass if their new “leader” has a (D) next to his name?
They won’t – you know it, and I know it, and the tens of thousands of people who will stay home on November know it because neither Tweedledumb or Tweedledeath has a clue as to what their life is like, but at least Tweedledeath has no qualms at all about telling you how he’ll pull the switch if you piss him off.
I’m a progressive, and I am damn proud to be one. I watch Olberman scream, and the people respond. I watch Tester in Montana come flat out and say, “I want to get RID of the Patriot Act, and in Montana(!) people applaud. I KNOW what the truth is, and so do you, yet you kid yourselves into believing that Biden and Feinstein and the like somehow value your opinion, and somehow someday they will find a voice.
They already have one. It quivers and quakes and squeaks behind the wall, afraid to take a stand on anything. I don’t want that anymore. I want someone whose voice booms like a canyon echo whenever something is wrong, and I want a voice that is not dependent on how many others will think the same way. To me, truth is not dependent on a quorum, and courage doesn’t travel in packs. If that makes me an outcast here, then so be it.
We can go in two directions, people. We can have the courage to stand up and call them out when they do wrong, and we can begin the laborious process of weeding them out and finding the progressive voices that this country desperately needs, On the other hand, we can listen to the whimpering and pretend instead that it is the voice of everyman, and that in some never never land this is what passes for courage, and for truth, and for decency.
I want to be a Democrat again, I truly do, but I’ll be damned if I will whimper anymore.
I will, however, start looking for a new bus.
Bluedogtxn's NOTE: This post had over a hundred responses and was listed as one of the "Greatest" picks today. Still think Democrats don't get it? Rank and file Democrats get it.
The Democratic "leadership" has failed us completely today and are complicit in establishing an American Police State.