Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Candidate Purity Tests

I found this on Alternet, in the comments on a post about Kamala Harris.  It was written by a user calling himself "Griffon".   I thought it worth sharing for those who insist on maintaining the status quo in their chosen candidates without regard for the records of those same candidates."

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Why is it considered a "purity test" for an honest representative who'll demand an end to f#@king Torture?

Why is it considered a "purity test" for an honest representative who'll demand an end to support for unilaterally obliterating foreign civilians?

Why is it considered a "purity test" for an honest representative who'll demand my goddamned taxes get tracked, accounted for, and used for infrastructure, education, clean water, free college and Universal Healthcare which covers everyone. Every...single...one.

Goddamn it.

I'm so f#@king sick of democrat sackless tribal ass-hats actually defending callous republican policies (under the guise of the failure-crat platform, of course), like the ACA; a rapacious, forced-tax that sees 20-50% increases yearly, which a large swath of the Public can't even afford and which provides sub-par "coverage," and only after an exorbitant, knee-buckling deductible, not to mention skyrocketing prescription pricing and increasing medical bankruptcies.

All of which excludes hundreds of thousands, nay millions of our fellow citizens. It never had to be this way. We have plenty of money. We can afford to care for our citizens. We can afford to educate and clothe, encourage and heal our countrymen....except where the two privatized, parasitic corporate parties, DNC and RNC, are involved.

The democrats and republicans are paid to deny us healthcare. The democrats and republicans are paid to deny us access to education that doesn't bury future generations in indentured slavery and crippling debt.

The democrats and republicans are paid to deny us clean water, clean air, decent internet, even the least accountability. The democrats and republicans are paid to deny us a standard of living that other countries have long achieved; like Norway, Sweden, Canada.....

It doesn't have to be this way. Why does anyone keep defending this insanity? It doesn't take anything more than people simply deciding it can't be like this any more. Period.
The private corporate DNC and RNC are not unlike those predators in Hollywood and USAG who have exploited and abused a vulnerable Public for $$$ and power. They have used their positions to get away with murder and worse...until those abused in Hollywood and athletics decided this will not continue. Period.

They joined together; they were stronger than one or two alone and stood up to the hierarchy that sought to keep them silent and afraid. The Public must now do the same thing; stand up to the monstrous abuse of the DNC and RNC and destroy those organizations that have worked tirelessly to keep the Public in debt. bondage, illegal wars, paying for a Torture state, militarizing our domestic police force, and drinking leaded (and worse) water.

We are here now directly because the democrats (and republicans) don't work. They have long thrown us under the bus, then indulged in the worst, worst rationale for their abject failures; victim blaming. See, it's our fault that we didn't want a cheating, lying Wall St. spaniel for a leader. It's our fault that we're sick of expanding wars, Torture, failing infrastructure, bloated Pentagon, Tax cuts for the filthy rich, Corporate Welfare, billions in tax havens, corporate slavery/overseas sweatshops. It's our fault that we're sick of being the World leader in arms sales, bombing innocent civilians, making dedicated enemies by the hundreds for obliterating whole families, villages, cities.
It's all our fault, you see?

Somehow, I don't recall voting for a single one of these atrocities, obscenities, extraConstitutional abominations, Frauds, Violations of Due process, Indefinite Detentions, Pipelines, Oil Spills, Fracking, Uranium deals, Environmental catastrophes, Superfund abandonments.....

But somehow, it's all our fault. The Public finds this obvious, obvious DNC/RNC corporate, mercenary agenda repugnant, destructive, unconscionable, inhuman, monstrous, barbaric.....but it' our fault for rejecting it. It's our fault for finding such as both Trump and clinton repulsive and indefensible.

It's our fault for wanting human rights, basic sanitation, drinkable water, Due Process, clean energy, justice for all, egalitarian legislation.....Peace.

Our fault.

Here's an idea; Let's make it our fault for putting the DNC and RNC out of business and out of our government. Let's make it our fault that the Pentagon reins-in its extravagant and dishonorable behavior. Let's make it our fault that we force Universal healthcare policy. Let's make it our fault that domestic police are trained in de-escalation instead of Murder, Inc. Let's make it our fault that education and college don't shackle future generations with dream-killing debt. Let's make it our fault that corporations no longer own our votes, vote counts, voting machines, voting software, voting results, and vote totals.

Let's make it our fault that we staunchly refuse to trade King George for hundreds of thousands of petty, smaller dictators in CEOs, Goldman Sachs, Monsanto, Time-Warner, Comcast, Verizon.....they are nothing more than imperialist dictators destroying democracy.

Corporations are the most dangerous insurgency, and the graveyard of democratic fundamentals. Corporations are where democracy goes to die.

Let's make it our fault that corporate rule and right-wing policy gets buried instead. You just need to decide. And stick. And stick. And stick.

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