Marching Orders for Aggressive Progressives

Commandante Markos wants us to "break their spirits" - and gives us our marching orders for a sweeping victory on Election Day:

I realize there are people uncomfortable with aggressive language and action. That's the difference between liberal weenies and movement progressives. Liberal weenies sit around thinking that "the truth" is enough for victory, and that if we simply explain to voters why Democrats are better, why, we can't possibly lose any elections! That's the crowd that wants to keep the "high ground" and doesn't want to go down in the gutters and fight the GOP where they live, lest we get a little muddied ourselves.

Movement progressives realize that we must do everything necessary allowable under the law to win because elections have consequences. This isn't about who is most pure, but about taking the fight to the enemy and aggressively embracing progressivism, offering clear contrasts between us and them, and fighting fire with fire. There's no ambiguity about where I belong.

So to my fellow movement progressives, embrace that killer instinct and let's finish the job. We've got conservatives demoralized and on the run. They are retrenching around their most important voices. So let's pick off those they've left exposed and go after their best defended leaders as well. Let's get rid of John Shadegg and Mitch McConnell and Liddy Dole and the rest of them. Leave them leaderless, and susceptible to takeover by the Evangelical Right that so freaked out Wall Street conservatives during the primaries (when Huckabee was briefly in the lead).

Let's run up Obama's margins in the Blue states and narrow them in the Red states to give Obama a huge, unmistakable national mandate. Let's win states Bush won by 20 points or so in 2004, like Indiana, Montana and North Dakota, to rub salt in their wounds. Let's keep forcing them to go more and more into debt, so that they emerge from the election with their coffers drained, heavily in debt.

 

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Please inform the

Please inform the Commandante that most of we Liberals don't fit his ideological definition of a "weenie." Most, if not all, Liberals are willing to take this fight to the neoconservatives, AND to the faux-Democrats in our own Party.

Also, please tell Markos that while we agree with some of his tactics, he can kiss our collective asses for his denigration of Liberals, and the Liberal policies that built this nation.

As in the past, we will continue to pick up the pieces of failed Conservative attempts to destroy the USA and its Constitution, without becoming a mirror image of the morally corrupt opposition.

I agree with his

ridicule for whoever sits around and does nothing, during elections and - even more so - during the rest of each congressional session (of course sometimes that includes Marcos). I think he's right and that what he's advocating now is ethical, and that he gets a silly thrill out of pretending it's somehow naughty, but I think the way he describes it will not appeal to a lot of people who would otherwise agree and engage in it. We need to do everything we can to win Obama this election because he not as far to the right as McCain. Period. There is no need to pretend he's a progressive, and doing so will just make people cynical.

David Swanson
david@davidswanson.org
http://www.davidswanson.org

Fight Back

Could you tell me WHY you sit back and allow the repukes to slander Obama and Dems freely while there are boatloads of info about McCain and Palin that ONLY gets onto the blogs?
Anyone hear of Timmons,AIP(Vogler),Pastor Moothie,McCain's Mafia connections,McCain's anti GI votes,CindyMcCain's drug thefts and I could go on and on.Point is the HIGH ROAD alone doesn't work and it seems as if the DNC hasn't learned anything!!!!

Who...

...is the "you" you refer to?

Because real Liberal

Because real Liberal Democrats only believe in presenting facts, and NOT heresay, innuendo, or Internet conspiracy theories (like some of the ones you mention).

On the other hand, we are quickly exposing the Truth about every lie, half-truth, and thinly veiled rascist statement the neoconservatives make. McSame's and Palin's outrageous claims are hurting them as much as their failed economy, and you want us to play their game? Unlike the faux-Democrats of the "centrist" DLC, Howard Dean and the DNC are finally taking the fight to the neocons, with truth and honor.

It is possible to win a political sword fight with a Truth pen. We've done it before, and we'll do it again. The American people are not as ignorant as you would seem to think.

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