DKos Says: I Will NOT Calm The Fuck Down!

In a defiant diary, this writer rebukes a previous call for DKos members to calm down and discuss issues other than torture.

"I won't. My anger is righteous and I'm entitled to it."

There is a larger issue. Liberals seem outraged because they feel they are not being heard. So they scream louder. But, everyone hears them. All the time. Nonstop. That's the problem.

The liberal's own party barely listens to them. Why should they? The liberals have proven to be irrational and disproportionate in their outrage.

People have a hard time listening to the lunatic left, even when the left has a valid point. No one likes to be scolded or shouted at. But, that seems to be the only way liberals know how to make a point. There is no calmness for their outrage over the war in Iraq. And there is no calmness over WalMart cashiers making $8 an hour.

Perhaps, the angry left would be taken seriously if they offered a solution along with their rage. But, for every issue, the left's solution is either to do nothing or embrace Socialism.

Social Security? We cannot let citizens have their own accounts. Keep it 100% in government control.
WalMart? Evil. Government should dramatically raise the minimum wage.
College Tuition to high? Government should pay for it.
Healthcare costs too high? Government should pay for it.
School choice? Only government controlled education is allowed.
Taxes? Should be raised because government knows better than citizens on how to spend it.
Paycheck too small? Government will mandate a pay raise.
Rent too high? Government will control the price.
Make too much money? Government will take more of it.
Iraq? Shouldn't be there.
If not Iraq, where? Darfur
Spying on terrorists? No
Prisoners of War? No
Aggressive Interrogation? No.
Ethnic Profiling at airports? No.
Stop illegal immigration? No.
Health Savings Accounts? No.
Make English official language? No.

There is no alternative plan from the liberals that 1) doesn't tie the nation's hands behind it's back, and 2) doesn't push the nation towards Socialism. Additionally, every one of the issues listed above evokes outrage from the left. So, in the end, no one really takes liberals seriously. The nation rewards or punishes Republicans based on Republican ideas, not on Democratic alternatives.

For the sake of having a strong two party government, please calm down.
For the sake of the Republican Party, please do NOT calm the fuck down.

DKos Condones Violence Against Conservatives

This outspoken conservaitve student of Oakland University in Michigan and executive director of the Michigan College Republicans was beaten after receiving a threatening email from gay rights group. One side of his face was crushed and he now needs major surgery to rebuild it.

The Michigan College Republicans are now claiming this was a hate crime against conservatives by the militant left.

So, despite the fact that the Krazy Kosmonauts disagree with the victims politics, we should expect sympathy from them anyway, right? Violence against speech (even speech you don't agree with) is wrong isn't it? Here's some comments posted on DKos in response the story:

"It couldn't be that maybe he started drinking & spewing his bullshit views about Gays, Abortion or some other crap totally unrelated to politics at the party, and pissed the wrong person off."

"I feel no pity for him. if that makes me a bad person then so be it. some people need their asses kicked once in a while. maybe now he knows what it's like to be a gay person who worries about getting the shit kicked out of them everyday."

"Justin, Republican, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life."

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Drop a rock, it falls
Divide a country, they fight.
Torture an enemy, they fight harder.

While I do think violence was the wrong answer, this guy basically stepped on a rake and whined when it hit him in the face."

"I'm trying to find some sympathy. it's not under the counter, it's not in my pockets, doesn't apear to be on my thumb drive, (it's only 128 mb, but that would be more than enough room) it's not stuffed into the bottom of my cigarette pack (although I did find something else in there I'd forgotten about that'll come in handy in a couple hours here)......I'll keep looking......."

"That guy is a pussy. For fuck's sake, take off that diaper and take your ass-whipping like a real man!"

"I thought young replicants were tough. they endorse violence against blacks, asians, muslims, gays, and anyone that doesn't follow the party line. payback is a bitch. maybe he ought to get his candyass into the military where he can learn to defend himself, and then defend his country.
tung sol"

"Good. Violence may not be the answer, but sometimes it's good to get it wrong on purpose.

I'm always amazed at the hateful individual who preaches hatred, becomes a victim of hatred, and then bitches about it.

You reap what you sow, junior. No sympathy, and in fact my day just got a little happier."

There's plenty more where that came from. Nice people aren't they?

The Weak Liberal Man

Here's a diary that sums up the liberal man. A woman tells the writer she is pregnant and he is the father. The woman asks him what she should do. The writer gives what may be the weakest, most pathetic answer ever uttered by man:

"Hun, as a Catholic I will never give my approval for an abortion. But as a liberal, I can't tell you what you should do and this is something I've accepted as part of being pro-choice. It's your body; your choice; you tell me."

I believe this answer sums up the current state of the liberal man: weak, confused, ambivalent, and irresolute.

Here, we see a man who knows abortion is morally wrong. But the moral wrongness conflicts with his identity as a liberal. What to do, what to do! Ah, I'll give her an ambivalent answer that will make me seem sensitive and at the same time washes my hands clean of the brutal act.

Is this what women are looking for in men today? Weak and irresolute?

So, the woman asks him again, what should she do?

"I would want you to have it. I may be pro-choice but the last thing I ever want anyone to have is an abortion. It's purely a rights thing. I'll tell you what I will do.

If you decide to not have it, I'll be there for you during the abortion. I'll go with you and I'll be there whenever you need my counseling afterwards. But if you do that, I don't think I'll be able to feel anything towards you. I can't help that. I'm only capable of so much. I won't hate you, but I wouldn't be able to be with you.

If you decide to keep it, I'll take care of the baby. You don't have to stick around if you don't want to."

How weak and pathetic! This woman was looking to the man for wise and insightful advice. Yet, he was resolute in being irresolute. Again, he knows what the right thing to do is but he over-thinks the issue by getting it confused with his political identity.

This may seem like a rather harsh judgement on the writer. Granted, hearing about an unplanned pregnancy from someone other than your wife is an understandbly stressful situation. But, it is in those stressful times where a man's sense of right and wrong should guide him. She was counting on that manly moral compass. Yet, he let her down.

This is the problem with the Democratic Party and why there is no clear leader who stands out. In fact, many on the left believe their toughest politician is actual someone named Hillary! There are no strong, manly leaders on the left.

In the end, the writer learns the woman's pregnancy was a false alarm. Yet, he seems to be satisifed that he managed to straddle the abortion dilemma by being sensitive yet indecisive.

There was a battle in the writers mind between his liberal identity and morality. Liberalism won.

DKos says: Republicans Literally Killing Off Liberals

Check this out. This DKos diarist insinuates Republicans and conservatives are literally killing Democrats.

Here's some excerpts:

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Question #1: What are the odds against chance that the only U.S. political leaders to be assassinated in the past 100 years were Democratic or Progressive?

(All biographical and Anthrax Attacks information excerpted from Wikipedia entries.)

John F. Kennedy (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963), the 35th President of the United States.

Robert F. Kennedy (November 20, 1925 - June 6, 1968), a United States Senator from Massachusetts and candidate for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968), leader of the American Civil Rights Movement and peacemaker."

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Question #4: What are the odds against chance that the only TV news outlets targeted in the 2001 Anthrax Attacks were ones accused of being "liberal" by some elements of the political right in the United States?

ABC News received an anthrax letter dated September 18, 2001, exactly one week after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

NBC News received an anthrax letter dated September 18, 2001, exactly one week after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

CBS News received an anthrax letter dated September 18, 2001, exactly one week after the September 11, 2001 attacks."

Hmmm...all three major news networks were attacked...I do see a pattern there...

There's even a section listing Democrats who have died in plane crashes which includes JFK Jr.