I’ll cheerfully stipulate that the Democratic Party is an imperfect instrument. That the postwar duopoly, before the GOP began to fizz with rabies, served the interests of capital.
Nevertheless: it remains (for perhaps a little bit) a duopoly, one branch of which, however compromised, has not gleefully embraced cruelty and sadism as the other one clearly has.
In the 2016 campaign it was apparent to some of us—not, alas, to you—that Trump was a uniquely dangerous excrescence thrown up by the Republican Party.
After almost two years, things are far worse than I, at least, expected. This is not the time for internecine quarrels. It’s time to ally with Stalin. Hell, it’s time to ally with Churchill. Manchin voted for Kegger Kavanaugh. Sigh. That was a cynical and soulless calculation. Shall we rally the troops to abstain next month? No. I’ve given $50 to Collins’ eventual opponent, for vengeance, and $50 to Heitkamp, because she deserves it. As to Manchin, who votes with his party 80% of the time, the thirty pieces of silver will have to suffice.
I am not wholly confident that next month’s election will not be electronically ratfucked. If that happens, comrades, we’ll see what the country is made of. Rabid mice, is what I’m thinking.
cordially,
Nevertheless: it remains (for perhaps a little bit) a duopoly, one branch of which, however compromised, has not gleefully embraced cruelty and sadism as the other one clearly has.
In the 2016 campaign it was apparent to some of us—not, alas, to you—that Trump was a uniquely dangerous excrescence thrown up by the Republican Party.
After almost two years, things are far worse than I, at least, expected. This is not the time for internecine quarrels. It’s time to ally with Stalin. Hell, it’s time to ally with Churchill. Manchin voted for Kegger Kavanaugh. Sigh. That was a cynical and soulless calculation. Shall we rally the troops to abstain next month? No. I’ve given $50 to Collins’ eventual opponent, for vengeance, and $50 to Heitkamp, because she deserves it. As to Manchin, who votes with his party 80% of the time, the thirty pieces of silver will have to suffice.
I am not wholly confident that next month’s election will not be electronically ratfucked. If that happens, comrades, we’ll see what the country is made of. Rabid mice, is what I’m thinking.
cordially,