#makebelieve | #WhatTheyVotedFor
Click for incongruous distraction because, I don't know, have I used this picture before?
You mean the specific problem of economic stagnation of the middle class, regressive taxation and the damage caused by decades of trickle down economics. Specific problems that I have repeatedly for pages now pointed out the solutions for, that we need to keep point at these solutions loudly and proudly: increase taxes on the rich, tax high frequency trading, implement universal healthcare, reduce the cost of education. That if we focus on economic justice, we can get enough votes back to win back the senate and maybe the house, certainly the presidency if we don't run a corporatist candidate that no one believes will do any of that.
A perfect example: You refuse to acknowledge the actual counterpoint to your argument.
This is why you have nothing to say. You have no idea what you're addrssing; you have no idea what you're talking about.
And what am I advocating we let the GOP do?
When Republicans want to have a fight over who gets to use the bathroom, or who gets to force sexually abused minors to bear a rapist's child, why should
anyone take a pass. You complain of a "lack of focus on bigger problems", but, as your "specific problem" paragraph reminds,
refuse to countenance the reality of these other issues. If meeting conservatives on their struggle for supremacism is, as with the "identity politics" of human rights, a "lack of focus on bigger problems", then you need to acknowledge where those distractions come from and what happens if they are left unattended. To wit:
Economic injustice is what disrupts and prevents economic justice... not some bronze statues!
Not only do you fail to consider the economic and general injustice of a government so oriented against a segment of its population, on the basis of skin color, as to spend public money insulting and intimidating them by celebrating enemies of the society because, hey, at least these enemies were admirable, or some such, you once again run scared from the facts of what is going on; to wit, yeah, you know, conservatives turn out with a torchlit mob to celebrate Nazis and the KKK, demanding government hostility toward dark skin, and the
best you're able to come up with↑ is blithering and bawling: "Well we are getting confederate statues removed, what a victory, that will totally put money in the pockets of debt riddle poor, working several jobs just toe make ends meets families of America."
So, hey: Conservatives want a fight, conservatives get a fight, conservatives lose a fight. What the hell is your goddamn problem with that? No, really—
And what am I advocating we run scared from?
—why are you so godforsaken
terrified of acknowledging that conservatives pick the fights you want Democrats to avoid?
Is it, you know, maybe because in acknowledging that fact you basically give away your stupid game?
I'm upset at liberals for not having THAT tenacity and energy for taxing the rich ...
Uh-huh. Ask Walter Mondale. Study the history of voters and taxation over the last, oh, nine presidential cycles worth of elections, including midterm and state-local off-year. King County, Washington, 1997: Voters got so caught up in a tax rebellion as to cancel funding for Emergency Medical Services; after blithering and bawling for days that they only voted to reject a funding
increase—an untenable excuse, given the ballot question and measure language—King County voters begged, and received a new election in order to restore funding. And, oh, hey, voters in Washington state recently rejected a state income tax, which really is incredible, all things considered. You see, the Evergreen State cobbled together its revenues through old and regressive tax schemes; we rely largely on sales taxes, right now, because voters won't approve an income tax, and canceled the state's primary funding mechanism. We never did get the thirty dollar car tabs, but we did kill the MVET and some massive transportation packages, and then voters spent the next decades
still complaining about the woeful condition of the roads. At any rate, we proposed a sales tax on income over a quarter million dollars, and voters still said no because they might earn a quarter million dollars someday, and wanted to not pay state income taxes when they did. How about Kansas? Voters elected a governor who deliberately wrecked the state's finances; then they voted to re-elect him. Republicans bucking the trend in order to save Kansas are risking their careers.
You know that bit where you want Democrats to be extra-careful to not piss off misogynists and white supremacists? Yeah, you see, they're busy bargaining the economy, geopolitics, and crime and justice policies in order to keep their hand in. It's always a difficult read, even coming off a year like we just saw with the Sanders movement, and with support gathering 'round the Medicare for All idea, we might soon start getting some signs from the broader electorate. In any case, it would be easier to take you seriously if you showed any substantial awareness of history.
... I'm upset at your ilk for your complete lack of how this looks, that most of the public does not give a fuck about trans in restrooms and are not encourage to join the left when they see the liberals spending so much energy on that issue.
Which brings us right back 'round. The action driving the issue in the discourse comes from conservatives. Whether or not "most of the public" does or not "give a fuck" about transgender in a restroom, the issue still presents itself. But why? Why does the issue present itself? Because conservatives insist. And here we see the scandal of your bullshit: Liberals are spending so much energy,
what? Answering the fights conservatives pick.
We now have a president who openly admitted to garbing women by the pussy (without consent), it is time for you to realizing whining about misogyny is not an effective tactic!
Are you capable of recognizing the difference between
tactic and
duty, or is this a bit of ignorance that, when considered in context, might help explain why you would pretend human rights are at all negotiable.
I'm not, just do it peacefully and respectfully, go high, not low. Last time the left went low the right used it as an excuse to go authoritarian to uphold civil order, so please for the love of god could you regressives actually think tactically and not start a Reichstag fire?
What, you want every person who disagrees with supremacism to do so in your Appeasing manner? I would much appreciate it if leftists would skip out on the vandalism and bullshit, but people are human, and part of the problem with the easy exploitation you fear is people like yourself who are just itching to be exploited.
What narrative? The strategic goal is to win back the government. What people do you think I'm talking to? What do protest actually DO?
How about this: Let us know when you have a clue what you're on about.
Seriously, you don't get to just stop making sense every time you're afraid to answer. When you let the supremacists tell us what the problem is? When you can only describe circumstances according to conservative myth?
What narrative? And, you know, consider women, for instance. For
once. Why would women take your advice when you won't listen to what they're telling you? And you can't even explain to them why they should harm themselves in no small part because you don't respect them enough to bother trying.
How are you so unfamiliar with basic liberal narrative? Your vocabulary and narrative form strongly suggest your perceptions of Democrats and liberalism are defined by the right wing:
There is not much worse then total republican domination with a pig boar as president. Our present reality makes everything you said false. We followed your un-stratified justice, "I'm with her" candidate and it has got us only defeat. And you want to double down and resist violently? That, then well, even worse. Violence from the left is exactly what the alt-right want.
Lets go over my stratagy again:
1. Focus on economic justice to win back the presidency, senate and even house.
2. Implement solution to ALL liberal problems: for example tax the rich to pay for programs to end street violence like getting thugs educations and jobs, legalizing weed, financing investigations into police departments. Has it ever occurred to you that minorities are disproportionally poor (well not Asians and not Jews) and that economic justice would disproportionally help them?
Your strategy
1. Double down.
2. Bitch and whine about some tiny demographic's issues with say restrooms endlessly, because virtue signaling.
Seriously—
#startmakingsense. You should try showing such tenacity and energy for something other than make believe.
