A quick word about "Unity" and "Healing"
As in: fuck it.
We've heard a lot of pretty platitudes today from Bush (and Kerry) about the"need for unity" and "healing" and "coming together." So I'm wondering... what exactly does that mean, and do any liberals actually think it's a good idea? Letting the extremist right-wing run roughshod over the demoralized remaining Democrats? Letting fundamentalist Christians and big business set the agenda for America without any opposition? Letting Bush appoint as many Scalia clones to the federal bench and the Supreme Court as he wants? Letting him cut taxes for the rich, restrict civil liberties, gut education, demonize gay people, wreak environmental havoc, chip away at a woman's right to choose and bomb whoever he wants? How does that benefit us?
If that's "unity", if that's "bipartisanship", then fuck unity and fuck bipartisanship. Let's put up a fight. Unity makes for nice sound bites but Bush isn't talking about true bipartisanship or compromise, he's talking about liberal capitulation to extremist right-wing rule. Just look at what a great job he did of uniting the country in the LAST four years.
P.S. I know I don't usually use this type of strong language in what is generally a "family-friendly" blog. But I feel it's warranted under the circumstances.
4 Comments:
"Fuck Unity"
I second that motion.
When Republicans lost the White House race to Clinton in 96, I am pretty sure the words like Unity, Healing, and "Standing by the President" were not on their lips.
Nor once did they consider weakening the agenda they believed in.
If the democrats want to represent our values they better not abandon the fight just because states offered only a "mere" 252 electoral votes in a presidential race. If fighting for the 48% of americans whose values were made clear last night is beneath them then we don't want them.
It feels like a leftwinger is someone who believes in left wing values, and a democrat is just someone who thinks those value may be popular.
In this country, in a hundred years from now, everything Bush stands for; homophobia, warmongering, scapegoating, power for the wealthy, empire building, unaccountablility, and the subversion of civil rights will make people ill when they compare it to their own contemporary society.
Progress is inevitable, it is just a painful fact that so many people will suffer that much longer before move ahead. All we can do is our best to fight to make that day sooner and make it less painful for those less fortunate along the way.
Btw, you do great work, it is always worth seeing.
Why is anyone surprised that Bush is talking "Unity"? He MUST have Democratic support to further his plans, there is no getting around that.
I take a great deal of solice in knowing that if California could recall Grey Davis, it is equally possible to recall Bush. The issues to base the recall on are theree....all that is requried is a charismatic replacement like Ahhhhnold.
Sadly, Kerry wasn't that man...
Republican operative Grover Norquist once said "bipartisanship is another name for date rape." If any of the Democratic legislators buy into Bush's "unity" shite, they'll find out how true that is.
Jake.
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