Nick Dukes ([info]jacktabasco) wrote,
@ 2006-04-27 16:34:00
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Hippies are just as bad as fundamentalists.

Whiny bitches do not receive empathy from me.

The Pony Gang will be huge one day.

Not having tits is becoming a problem. With tits, many more things are free.

Dabbling in magic because all the cool kids are doing it is not the way to start exerting your will on other people. Instead, buy a gun and a ski mask.

The Democrats will be buried within the next three presidential elections.

LaRouchites don't know what the Protocol of the Elders of Zion is, nor why it's appalling that LaRouche says it contains "a hard kernal of truth."

Aren't we able to stop people who have their own Youth Movement anyway?

Doing drugs does not make you a shaman.

The world needs more madmen.

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[info]boer
2006-04-28 08:02 pm UTC (link)
The Democrats will be buried within the next three presidential elections.


It's good to see you haven't lost your sense of humour. Nick.

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[info]jacktabasco
2006-04-29 09:08 pm UTC (link)
The Dems will only lose more seats in Congress and continually fail to get in the White House. Soon enough, they'll barely exist except for strongholds, and even those are dwindling (witness Ohio's shift to a "contested" state, Maryland's ongoing shift to a Republican state). Twelve years is enough time for this to happen and I don't see why it wouldn't. The party is a decentralized nightmare that panders to an imaginary constituency.

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[info]boer
2006-04-29 09:11 pm UTC (link)
I guess, if you like paying attention to the media's ridiculous portrayl of the party and nothing else.

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[info]jacktabasco
2006-04-30 05:54 pm UTC (link)
Look at what the party is doing, though. They're pandering to conservatives and moderates, drafting legislation that limits what kind of entertainment a person can go out and get, they're playing slippery-slope arguments to go and censor things.

I mean, shit, when was the last time a prominent Democrat did something /good/?

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[info]boer
2006-04-30 08:06 pm UTC (link)
No, the party isn't doing that. Members of the party are. The entire party is pretty diverse and covers people from right of centre to the far left, if we're using archaic political paradigms. Just like any group, they have their shitheads.

I'm pretty sure that guys like Dean and Obama and Feingold and Lamont are all doing good things.

They hit a rough spot because they weren't prepared for how well Bush's team can play the game. Some of the party is doing some really stupid shit to try to recover, and some of the party is doing some really smart shit to try to recover. When certain dumbasses come to the realization that listening to consultants is retarded, members like the abovementioned four will be able to get things back on track.

Plus, it's not as if the current group that's running the Republican Party will ever stop giving them stuff to work with. These guys' entire MO is based on screwing over as many people as possible for their own gain, and they're pretty open about it.

Beyond that, there's a ton of money tied up in the party by corporate sponsers, and it's highly unlikely that they'd allow the party to disappear.

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[info]jacktabasco
2006-05-01 06:46 am UTC (link)
Obama may be considering some kind of video game legislation as evidenced by recent rhetoric. Feingold supports the Broadcast Flag, doesn't she? All are still fixated on things like Why we went to war in the first place, which I don't see as getting anything accomplished right now. It would be nice to hold those responsible for crimes accountable, and mistakes accountable, however I think it would be best to focus on what America can do to get out of the messes we're in instead of just criticizing those in charge, and I'm not hearing any plans that satisfy me or that seem pratical at all.

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[info]boer
2006-05-01 07:02 am UTC (link)
Have you been looking? I mean, the party's website has a bunch of information, obviously. Dean's Democracy for America has a list of Democratic candidates all over the US with links to their websites which pretty clearly state their plans. And so on.

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[info]jacktabasco
2006-05-01 06:02 pm UTC (link)
I have been looking, and really, I'm not impressed. Especially given the political scene of Maryland, which I'm taking as a kind of microcosm of the overall system.

Newly elected Republican executive, going for his second term, with the Lt. Gov. (the GOP's answer to Obama, actully) running for an empty Senate seat left open by Sarbanes, who really didn't do much. The Democratic mayor of Baltimore may be running for governor, and that'd be kind of nice considering he has better policies than Ehrlich, but overall is just more agreeable on the surface.

Whoever goes into the Senate will represent me about as well as Barbara McKulski is doing right now, which is to say they won't represent me very well and just vote on what the party and the lobbyists tell them to vote on.

Ben Cardin will once again win his seat in the House of Reps, however he's an asshat who has no defense for why he voted on things like DoMA the way he did.

Another good example of what's wrong is Leland Yee- not only is he in the pocket of the entertainment industry, he's also pro-censorship and hypocritical about what should be censored.

When I look at the Democrats, I see a confused mess of conflicting policies, most of which hurt America. Is this a better choice than the Republicans? No, neither is better than the other. Which is why the best thing to do is to wait until some kind of crisis hits the Democrats and they splinter into groups that won't be held down by what kind of reforms they want to do. I want a strong American Socialist party. I want a Freak Power party. I want the Libertarians and the Greens to have more influence. I see a multi-party system coming into play once the Dems break down, and I see that as the best route to go.

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[info]boer
2006-05-01 07:05 pm UTC (link)
First of all, there's a HUGE difference between saying something is going to happen and saying this is something you want to happen.

The party isn't "a confused mess of conflicting policies." It's a huge party, because you only have two, so it's full of all different ideals. And that's a good thing. Would you rather everyone in the party agree on everything, or would you rather it be full of different ideas? And the only difference here between them and the Republican Party is that the current section in power of the GOP is very good at forcing people to go along with them, making it appear as though everyone agrees, and generally playing politics.

You're not going to get a multi-party system until the entire system is completely overhauled. The entire game has been rigged since it came into being, and until that changes, this is what you get. The Democratic Party falling apart won't push things in the direction you want.

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