Daily Kos Week In Review: Strange Brew of Tea
Though Kossacks detest the political beliefs of the Tea Party, they often acknowledge that they could learn something, perhaps related to organizational skills or enthusiasm or marketing, from tea-partiers' example. This week, however, one Kossack went whole hog and asserted that what the left needs is a mirror-image or Bizarro World Tea Party-like movement that stands for "truly egalitarian democratic communism."
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
diomedes77: Democrats should go back to the future
...[T]he Tea Party...was never anything more than a rebranding of the furthest right among the Republican party, aided and abetted by the so-called "liberal media". But their power, their viability, pushed the center much further right...
The Democrats must take a page from the same playbook, if they actually want to shift that center away from conservative policies.
In the 20th century, primarily from the 30s thru the early 70s, the left was much stronger [than it is today]...
Want to get back to that dynamic, those of you who consider yourselves liberals? Want a return to the days when liberal positions were seen as "centrist" in a sense? Then start supporting socialists, left-anarchists, Occupy folks, even those of us who promote a small "c", non-political, anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, truly egalitarian democratic communism...
I Hate Republicans: GOPers need a new motto
With their war on women, their war on the LGBT community, their war on the poor and middle class, their war on African Americans and Latinos, their war on the environment, their war on children, their war on wolves, polar bears and whales --my God, their war on practically everyone, I think the Republican Party should adopt this as their new slogan: "E Pluribus F**k 'Em."
MacDaffy: Some Republicans party like it's 1899
...[T]here is a school of what passes for Republican Thought that says we should take government back to the dimensions it held when William McKinley was president--back when lynching, anti-suffrage, and mutton-chop whiskers were all the rage...
Vyan: White male GOPers are desperate saboteurs
...[Republicans have] been deliberately sabotaging the country just to undermine the President...
It has to do with the slow, gradual, demographic realities that the core of the GOP - middle-aged, aggrieved, white men and their sycophantic trophy wives/mistresses (and their blind willful deluded cult of lickspittle lackeys who operate and listen to Right-Wing Radio and Fox News) - are no longer the majority in this nation. They are becoming like the rest of us - a minority.
They are acting out, because they see their coming irrelevance staring them in the face...
Kos: Cain, racist Republicans exploited each other
...Herman Cain was the GOP's "it" guy, having taken the frontrunner mantle away from a fading Rick Perry. It was a mutually beneficial relationship—Cain could pretend to put together a cabinet and ruminate about possible vice-presidential possibilities, while Republicans could pretend to like African Americans (i.e., "Some of my favorite politicians are black!") Everyone knew that when push came to shove, there was no way those Republicans would ever vote for the black guy, but for a while, they could pretend...
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They want a leftist
Submitted by tcm14 on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 11:45pm.
They want a leftist equivalent to the Tea Party? What was Occupy? They will never equal the Tea Party because their ideology is bankrupt and they can't help but behave like leftists when they get together: rioting, raping, wallowing in their own filth, etc.
Actually their initial
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 6:37am.
Actually their initial response to the TEA Party was the oh-so-imaginatively named "Coffee Party"
(get it?? haha) remember?
Well, neither do most people.
Because it fell apart. The reason: like most leftist groups, it was not unified, but rather a loose coalition of the usual individual interest groups, each with its own goals. At their Summit, some wanted to oust the movement's leader because they didn't want "someone that says we can all work together."
It Shows
Submitted by bmacdmac on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 11:43pm.
This simply shows the left does not understand what the Tea Party stands for or what it's about.
Couldn't Vyan get a date?
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 11:58pm.
Such bitterness....Vyan must be sitting alone in mommie's basement....
"...democratic
Submitted by robert108 on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 1:00am.
"...democratic communism..."??? Basic contradiction.
Egalitarianism??
Submitted by Samaritan01 on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 1:53am.
Please, please, please tell me that at least one of these chowder-heads has read "Animal Farm."
Sure they've read it...they
Submitted by The_Basseteer on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 2:20am.
Sure they've read it...they thought that it, like "Nineteen-Eighty-Four" was an instruction manual.
Even money says that not only
Submitted by LinTaylor on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 11:30am.
Even money says that not only have these loudmouths read it, but they think Napoleon was the hero.
Decide for yourself.
Submitted by Jerry Frey on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 3:24am.
http://napoleonlive.info/what-i-think/ideology-is-ignorance/
Where's your hobnailed boots Kos(sacks)??
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 6:46am.
Sounds like an anti-white racist diatribe to me.
"I hate"....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 9:36am.
Glad to see Ol' Hate's viewpoint isn't colored by thoughts of war.
Odd equivalency
Submitted by Model850 on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 4:33pm.
MacDaffy (appropriate name BTW): ...[T]here is a school of what passes for Republican Thought that says we should take government back to the dimensions it held when William McKinley was president--back when lynching, anti-suffrage, and mutton-chop whiskers were all the rage...
Since when does the size of government have anything to do with the actions of southern Democrats who ran around with sheets on their heads lynching blacks?