I have been pretty good about not reading Democratic Party hacks "Driftglass" and "Lawyers, Guns & Money." My version of "Progressive Bloggers" is the side-bar at "The Galloping Beaver." And I've posted about those two blogs DG and LGM before. They both have their qualities, and, of the two of them, the writers at LGM seem to be, by far, the more interesting and decent. But they are insane in their devotion to corporate liberalism and the neo-liberal leadership of the Democratic Party. I swore off reading them and I've stuck to it for months. But sometimes I accidentally read the titles of their latest posts when scanning the side-bar at TGB. As soon as I realize what I'm doing, I stop.
And I feel a whole lot better. Anything good they write is corrupted by their disgusting partisan hackery. DG pretending to be the voice of reason and moderation with his insults and smears of the Bernie Sanders campaign; his stupid alliance with the most obviously cynical and corrupt corporate whores in the Democratic Party; his disgraceful and revealing indifference to the massive fraud that stole the primary from the candidate who had a real chance at destroying the supposedly existential threat of Trump. LGM in turn, becomes completely unhinged while ghoulishly celebrating the Democratic Party's legal bullying to try to get the Green Party off the ballots in numerous states. LGM is, like the Democratic Party leadership, banking on the moronic proposition that if Green voters have their party of choice taken away from them that they'll all gratefully line up to vote for the party that did the taking away.
These two blogs could become worthwhile again if they engaged in some meaningful self-criticism and purged themselves of their slavish devotion to their centrist death cult.
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in canada we still maintain the fantasy of the viability of political parties - and we still have the legal structure to simply abolish them and develop an actual democratic form of governance
you can choose to ignore the failure of democracy in the u.s. or you can embrace both-siderism; neither are relevant to an acutal democracy.
drift-glass is largely the late night fluffy rantings of someone who probably should not have had a night cap . . .
the posters at lgm support the dem's because the alternative is so utterly alien to humanity. this has been the norm in the u.s. since nixon. canadians repeatedly try to copy the nixon approach even when they know it will fail
what's your point?
kh
kh,
My point is that two blogs with obviously intelligent writers have disgusted me with their hackery and that I have used my own blog to write about how I don't read them anymore and how I feel good about the fact that I don't read them anymore.
With regards to Canadian fantasies; if you've read this blog over the years (you might have, I don't know who "kh" is) you'd know I've pretty much given up on the human race doing the political-economic transformation necessary to save itself. I don't have a whole helluva lot else going on in my life so I still semi-follow politics and spew my narcissist observations here.
You speak with great confidence kh. Yes. All of our political parties have debased their programs by acknowledging the supremacy of the capitalist system. But what do you mean that we could legally abolish them tomorrow?? They're not technically a part of our parliamentary system, true. But "abolishing" them is different from that. And how would rejecting them affect the nature of the people we send to Parliament?
What do you mean by "canadians repeatedly try to copy the nixon approach even when they know it will fail"? The "Southern Strategy"? Or the way that LGM can't envision an alternative beyond the Democrats and the Republicans? If it's the latter, how does it apply to Canadians' behaviour?
Unfortunately, those that ape them north of the border don't seem any better. I think ex-Montréaler and ex-socialdemocrat Simon banned me pretty much the same time that I decided that his Liberal and pro-rightwing Democrat screed was no longer worth my while.
Oh, I'm still involved in ecosocialism, but indeed the prospects look dim for any such meaningful change.
lagatta,
I don't want to talk too much about Montreal Simon. I hardly read him these days. But what do you mean by "banned"? Did you try to comment and got repeatedly censored? Just curious.
Things look grim. It's hard to organize during a pandemic. Wouldn't it be wild if the year-and-a-half that we lost was the difference between survival and extinction?
I tried to comment - actually it was my farewell statement on the uselessness of my commenting on a class enemy's blog - but he had banned me that day so it didn't register. There was zero other reason for me to comment there, but I found that very cheap. Now he spends all his time attacking the left.
Sadly could be. Vicious comments about the young people protesting last week. Almost all had masks. The ecocidal right wing picked about one who didn't, but there are many possible reasons for that that have nothing to do with being mask "refusniks". My friends in other countries are facing the same despair. Not only the boomers (and up); the younger people too.
r
The genuine hurt that's been caused by the way our governments have tried to respond to the pandemic while letting our oligarchs sleep easily has only added fuel to the fire of every critique of our political system.
Montreal Simon has always struck me as a good-hearted fellow without much brain power. I genuinely think he's found a lucrative meal-ticket by being a Liberal Party propagandist and that that psychotic "Jackie Blue" is his supervisor.
If if were left up to air-heads like MS, Canada would be as big a basket-case as is the USA.
That entitled moron Nancy Pelosi appears to think that dragging out the suffering of ordinary -US-Americans until after the election will hurt Trump more than her own party of vermin. Unfortunately for her she's an idiot. And Trump fans' loyalty might overwhelm the votes that she's relying on.
That country needs a revolution. Led by people who aren't racist imbeciles who inspect their own diapers for food.
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