Why should I, like Mr. Obama, allow my ideals to be co-opted in case of an emergency. Fuck it. If I did that, I'd be the same liberal ass-wiper that I rail against every day. I'm done.
"Will you allow Occupy to become a project of the old left, the same cabal of old world thinkers who have blunted the possibility of revolution for decades? Will you allow MoveOn, The Nation and Ben & Jerry to put the brakes on our Spring Offensive and turn our struggle into a “99% Spring” reelection campaign for President Obama?Last week, Robert Reich, a guy who has an occasional flash of brilliance, reminded me, once again, that he is part of the cabal of old world liberal thinkers: "We need to do everything we can to make sure Barack Obama is reelected president...We need to fuel a movement to take back our economy and our democracy." I'm sorry, but this is liberal schizophrenia at it's mush-headed, Nattering Nabob worst. Why should anyone who is truly committed to real change, real revolution, spend a second of time or a single dollar to support a president who, just last week, touted and signed a "JOBS" act that doesn't create a single job?
We are now in a battle for the soul of Occupy… a fight to the finish between the impotent old left and the new vibrant, horizontal left who launched Occupy Wall Street from the bottom-up and who dreams of real democracy and another world.
They [Republicans] obviously learned nothing from the disasters of Bush the Second, who hijacked the tragedy of 9/11 to launch the most wasteful orgy of military spending in U.S. history in his failed effort to take out an al-Qaida enemy that had no significant military arsenal.What did Democrats learn? Mr. Obama's budgets have never called for a decrease in military spending.
The liberal class has ossified. It has become a part of the system that it once tried to reform. It continues to speak in the language of technical jargon and tepid political reform, even though the corporate state has long since gutted the mechanisms for real reform.Bill Maher pointed out last night, as a presidential candidate, Mr. Obama said his administration would not interfere with state medical marijuana laws. Mr. Obama also said that raiding patients who use marijuana for medicinal purposes "makes no sense" and that the Justice Department's prosecution of medical marijuana users was "not a good use of our resources."