FINALLY a tea party video not skewed to make people look like jackasses

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It's about time. This has been one of the most demoralizing features of Left Blogistan for me, and The Real News has disappointed me with a lot of the stuff they've done, but this short piece is way more balanced than any other go-in-and-interview-the-opposition, or even any of the go-in-and-interview-the-man-on-the-street videos I've seen to date. They ALL have been nothing more than tight analogs of the video done by that little criminal who made it look as though ACORN was in the business of helping pimps and working girls get over on the system. You can make a video look as though people are saying anything you want them to be saying.

Witness that abortion they broadcast about Tim McVeigh on MSNBC last night. They made it look as though he said exactly what it serves them to have us think he said. Worse than twaddle! It's lethally delusory shit.

The left is as guilty, even in a sense MORE guilty, of this murderous stuff as the right has been, because the left does it with so much more finesse. The left appeals to people not stupid or selfish enough to buy the bullcrap cranked out by the right's propaganda machine. The right has going for it that its rubes generally have more honesty and courage. The left has going for it that its rubes generally have more education and—until recently—solidarity with the downtrodden. Note, please, the distinction here I'm making between the rubes from both sides and the lying pundits from both sides who mindfuck the rubes for a living.

I have long maintained that conservatives are the people you want around you when you are in trouble. They will knock themselves out to help you. Liberals will call the authorities. Struth, dudes. Deal with it. And we have to start remembering that Ruby Ridge and Waco were atrocities against the People by the State at least on a par with all the union busting done by the right... maybe worse... I can argue both sides of that one.

Here, with this video, I am going to trust you not to be a partisan asshole and see how these people can think the way they think without being dangerous to your ideals for how our society should work. Our government has created this horrific mess we are in—Republicans and Democrats alike—and ALWAYS take corporate and plutocratic advantage to be more important than any or all of US. You gotta stop wanting to identify yourself as a liberal or a conservative so badly that you spend all your time vilifying your countrymen and NONE of it even talking about stopping the real harm.

TRUTH and JUSTICE are what matter. Of these, truth is THE most crucial part. Justice is also vital, but NOT in the sense of retribution so much as in the sense of equality and solidarity. You're going to insist upon a bunch of relative truths that fuel your partisanship, and I'm going to tear out my hair. People are FOREVER going on about "which truth" and "there is no absolute truth" and shit like that, and I keep tearing out my hair. Truth is stuff like we've killed at least a million Iraqis; I'm wearing my Emu boots; there's a fresh cup of coffee to the left of my keyboard right now; Obama has worsened and strengthened most of the crimes of the last administration; we have a broken government full of fuckers on the take and completely ignoring the Constitution... that sort of thing. See you can't EVER get justice if you don't master the truth part.

If you keep missing it, and you keep missing it, there not only will never be justice, but all your intense effort amounts to GOSSIP. Period.

I didn't just say that to be insulting. I said it because I love you and it hurts me to see you struggling so hard for bubkes.

I've long held that I would join the Libertarian Party if they'd just put something in there about a social safety net and universal health care. This would be enough of a compromise for me because I don't believe any human should have to pay for food, housing, clothing, utilities, anything we need to live long, healthy and happy lives. I think you're an evil-bastard-in-denial if you think otherwise, and only ever don't rip you to ribbons because you've been conditioned to think otherwise since the day you were born, but nonetheless I can see how the Libertarian position on tearing our government down to bare bones might be the ONLY feasible way of ever attaining the leftist's ideal society. Maybe even the Libertarians' way, but probably not. Maybe. Probably not. Still, we would HAVE to start by doing it their way, stripping the government down to almost nothing, before we could put in the stuff that is mandatory to keeping the WHOLE population served.

I said SERVED, not STRANGLED. And the people we are calling "liberals" nowadays are for strangulation over liberation.

Fuck them. No. REALLY. Fuck them.

People have to learn to discern between what's ACTUAL and what's just their own likes and dislikes, their own pet causes, their own opinions, their own sense of personal IDENTITY. What kind of a pig picks that stuff over neighbors, countrymen, species, all living things?

We are so fucked.
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