Posted on 02/26/2017 12:59:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When the DNC elected sycophantic establishment underling Tom Perez to DNC Chair, my beloved Bernie Sanders released a statement addressed to the new Chairman congratulating him on his win and letting him know he looks forward to working with him.
“At a time when Republicans control the White House, the U.S. House, U.S. Senate and two-thirds of all statehouses,” Sanders wrote, “it is imperative that Tom understands that the same-old, same-old is not working and that we must open the doors of the party to working people and young people in a way that has never been done before. Now, more than ever, the Democratic Party must make it clear that it is prepared to stand up to the 1 percent and lead this country forward in the fight for social, racial, economic and environmental justice.”
Right, Bernie. Now is when we can finally expect things to start changing. Now that they’re done sabotaging your campaign with a stacked primary, sabotaging Ellison’s campaign with spurious accusations of anti-semitism and adding an establishment-endorsed candidate late in the race, voting against a ban on corporate lobbying and installing the pro-TPP corporate crony who helped the Clinton campaign undermine and smear you to the very chair position that was most pivotal in sabotaging your campaign, now is when things finally start turning around. Now that they’ve taken everything they wanted and spat in our faces at every turn in order to maintain the same-old, same-old, now, surely, we can expect them to dispense with the same-old, same-old.
Yeah, sounds about right. I wonder if that’ll be before or after wearing my vagina hat magically fixes the nation’s ills and all those viral clickbait articles about Trump’s imminent impeachment come true?
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Tom Perez does not know how to beat the Republicans, Bernie. None of those horrible people do. But you and I and the millions of people who supported you in the primaries do. We know how to beat Trump, but they won’t let us. They’ve wedged us out. They turn everything into a wedge, even you, Bernie; I can’t think of a single time in recent memory where someone’s told me “Well Bernie says” this or that who wasn’t a proponent of the same-old, same-old of the Democratic establishment. They’re even using you to wedge us out, Bernie. They can’t beat the Republicans because all they know how to do is wedge, and soon they’re going to wedge themselves right off a cliff.
And it won’t be our fault. By electing Perez, the DNC has told us in no uncertain terms that its addiction to corporate funding and corporatist power is more important to it than we are, and it has absolved us of all responsibility we may have once felt toward the Democratic party. Which is great, really; we’re now free to build something new and better, without any sense of guilt or obligation to help the party out when it crashes and burns.
We already knew that the Democratic establishment is opposed to most of the things we stand for, like economic justice, massive changes in environmental policy, peace, military non-interventionism, ending exploitative trade deals and getting money out of politics, but the Republicans are so crazy we’ve often felt obligated to help the Dems out against them. We no longer need to do this; the Democratic elites have now accepted sole responsibility for the spectacular losses they’re going to take in the 2020 elections and the 2018 midterms. We can free up our energy and creativity to figure out something bright and beautiful to replace the smoldering donkey carcass and give the Republicans a real fight.
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This isn’t to say that people shouldn’t try to DemEnter and take over the party from within if that’s still the strategy they feel called to for whatever reason. All it means is that we are now officially emancipated from the guilt, shame, gaslighting, bullying and cajoling that corporate liberals will undoubtedly try to inflict upon us in order to wedge us back into the fold to defeat the GOP. Those things no longer have any weight or reality to them at all; they belong to the DNC now. Their failures are now one hundred percent their own responsibility.
This is all to say that you are free to follow your own inspiration and creativity now, my dear starry-eyed rebels of the progressive awakening. There is now a whole unfathomably vast world of possibilities as opposed to the narrow bandwidth we were previously limiting ourselves to out of a sense of obligation and doubt. Let your imagination and inspiration soar unfettered by the gravity of guilt as the Democratic party gasps its final breaths unsupported by its base.
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What we have now is a media war, a war of ideas, a war for the soul of the nation, and it won’t move like anything the old power structures are built for. Be prepared to improvise and expect the unexpected, because things are going to get shaken up mighty hard soon. The group with the most thrust and the most viral ideas will be the one to achieve dominance in the upheaval, and we can easily step into that spot as long as we feel completely unbound by any loyalties to the old and the obsolete.
This is exciting, uncharted territory we’re stepping into. We’ve never been here before. You are so very, very free.
Trust yourself. You’ve got this.
The Democrats are unarmed.
You look at the places where the DNC holds power - say California for example, and they're seriously worried about making sure that illegals aren't deported, or Moonbeam's little bullet train choo choo from Bakersfield to Visalia while nearly 200,000 were evacuated due to incompetence in managing one of the many critically important flood control (and water supply) dams. Not to mention while people are drowning declaring that there's a drought emergency throughout the state.
Sure, they've got a stranglehold on the state. Productively for the GOP, the rest of the country is just staring in horror as to how everything is being managed here. And that's being repeated in most of the DNC strongholds.
So keep it up, DNC, and Bernie, you keep up showing just how much worse it could be - keep the people horrified of you or anyone like you gaining power in this country. Maybe we might even start making inroads in the hell holes that the DNC have created across the country.
You go, girl. Stop the bankster controlled hijackers of your party.
Circular firing squads begin immediately.
This guy’s a kook :)
Go FURTHER AND FURTHER AND FURTHER LEFT!!!!
Please.
I wonder how “working man” bernie is doing in his new digs.
At a time when Republicans control the White House, the U.S. House, U.S. Senate and two-thirds of all statehouses
Bernie sees this but is too blind to understand just WHY the Dems have been losing everything.
There is ignorant, then there is willfull stupid.
My hope is that Perez democrats become the Rockefeller republicans. Just be happy you have a chair, put up a token fight in D.C. and then go play golf, because that life is better than working.
“By Electing Perez, The DNC Has Officially Taken Sole Responsibility For Trump’s 2020 Win”
Never, ever count your chickens before they hatch. So much can happen in the next 3 years or so to change that.
A former employer’s motto was “Vigilant Always”, and with enemies such as the dems/commies/GOPe/RINO’s/Globalists we’ve got to keep on top of our game.
MORE FREE STUFF!!!!! That's the solution. Bernie is on the cutting edge of something for nothing. Heck he got a great house for doing nothing running in the Dumb ( uh i mean Dem) primaries.
Spurious accusations? I don't think so...
Um, uh, yeah. "Minister" Farrakhan didn't mean all that stuff about Jews. He just has an odd sense of humor. /s
Yoe Bernie: Democrats who backed AND funded Perez ARE the 1 percent - ever hear of 'Soros' AND his friends?
Caitlin is a she.
Turn out the lights, the party’s over...
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