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JakeStratham · 01-02-2012, 05:41 PM

The following piece is worth reading for many reasons. It is insightful; it is direct; and it skewers the nonsensical voters, pundits, and various talking heads.

Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies - Salon.com

Warning: It is long. Most of you won't finish it. But for those few of you compelled to do so, you'll be glad you did.

Warning II: Greenwald takes his time approaching the idiocy focused on Paul lately. Impatience will not be rewarded. This essay is rich. I have found several gems that will help me position Paul to folks I speak with. You will, too.

Enjoy.

music4mic · 01-02-2012, 06:15 PM

I read this the other day and it actually makes a lot of sense. Favorite quote:

Quote:

Ron Paul’s candidacy is a mirror held up in front of the face of America’s Democratic Party and its progressive wing, and the image that is reflected is an ugly one; more to the point, it’s one they do not want to see because it so violently conflicts with their desired self-perception.

in otherwords, they jelly.

JakeStratham · 01-02-2012, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by music4mic

I read this the other day and it actually makes a lot of sense. Favorite quote:

Quote:

Ron Paul’s candidacy is a mirror held up in front of the face of America’s Democratic Party and its progressive wing, and the image that is reflected is an ugly one; more to the point, it’s one they do not want to see because it so violently conflicts with their desired self-perception.

That passage caught my eye, too. But the passage that follows it is beautiful, and I intend to use it to sway voters who might otherwise be compelled to vote for Obama ("for lack of a suitable candidate").

In its entirety:

Quote:

The candidate supported by progressives — President Obama — himself holds heinous views on a slew of critical issues and himself has done heinous things with the power he has been vested. He has slaughtered civilians — Muslim children by the dozens — not once or twice, but continuously in numerous nations with drones, cluster bombs and other forms of attack. He has sought to overturn a global ban on cluster bombs. He has institutionalized the power of Presidents — in secret and with no checks — to target American citizens for assassination-by-CIA, far from any battlefield. He has waged an unprecedented war against whistleblowers, the protection of which was once a liberal shibboleth. He rendered permanently irrelevant the War Powers Resolution, a crown jewel in the list of post-Vietnam liberal accomplishments, and thus enshrined the power of Presidents to wage war even in the face of a Congressional vote against it. His obsession with secrecy is so extreme that it has become darkly laughable in its manifestations, and he even worked to amend the Freedom of Information Act (another crown jewel of liberal legislative successes) when compliance became inconvenient.

He has entrenched for a generation the once-reviled, once-radical Bush/Cheney Terrorism powers of indefinite detention, military commissions, and the state secret privilege as a weapon to immunize political leaders from the rule of law. He has shielded Bush era criminals from every last form of accountability. He has vigorously prosecuted the cruel and supremely racist War on Drugs, including those parts he vowed during the campaign to relinquish — a war which devastates minority communities and encages and converts into felons huge numbers of minority youth for no good reason. He has empowered thieving bankers through the Wall Street bailout, Fed secrecy, efforts to shield mortgage defrauders from prosecution, and the appointment of an endless roster of former Goldman, Sachs executives and lobbyists. He’s brought the nation to a full-on Cold War and a covert hot war with Iran, on the brink of far greater hostilities. He has made the U.S. as subservient as ever to the destructive agenda of the right-wing Israeli government. His support for some of the Arab world’s most repressive regimes is as strong as ever.

Most of all, America’s National Security State, its Surveillance State, and its posture of endless war is more robust than ever before. The nation suffers from what National Journal‘s Michael Hirsh just christened “Obama’s Romance with the CIA.” He has created what The Washington Post just dubbed"a vast drone/killing operation,” all behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy and without a shred of oversight. Obama’s steadfast devotion to what Dana Priest and William Arkin called “Top Secret America” has severe domestic repercussions as well, building up vast debt and deficits in the name of militarism that create the pretext for the “austerity” measures which the Washington class (including Obama) is plotting to impose on America’s middle and lower classes.

This is a gorgeous collection of atrocities. I intend to give it to people to read, and then ask them, "This is the man you support? This is the monster you're going to vote for? Seriously?"

music4mic · 01-02-2012, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by JakeStratham

That passage caught my eye, too. But the passage that follows it is beautiful, and I intend to use it to sway voters who might otherwise be compelled to vote for Obama ("for lack of a suitable candidate").

In its entirety:

This is a gorgeous collection of atrocities. I intend to give it to people to read, and then ask them, "This is the man you support? This is the monster you're going to vote for? Seriously?"

Yeh, i meant to grab all the links and format it in a text file for forums and reddit lol. It's awesomeness should be used at every opportunity.

mattseh · 01-03-2012, 11:32 AM

Currently a third of the way through, this is brilliant, thanks Jake!

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