You know how some Jews take offense when people make dumb comparisons to the Holocaust or to Nazism? That’s how I feel when I read ridiculous comparisons between what the Democratic Party is doing — or more likely not doing — to resist Donald Trump and actual resistance movements around the world. All these Democrats are trying to do is co-opt the term resistance without actually resisting.
The Democratic Resistance
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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The job of the Democratic Party is to provide their own brand of resistance to the resistance of the people to the Power Elite.
Example? Here:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/04/obama-to-banker.html
But, President Obama cut them off.
“My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks,” the president told them.
The CEOs might have guessed they were in for a rough go of it. They found themselves gathered at a table with nothing more than a single glass of water at each seat. No food, no other beverages, no ice — no refills, even.
No Jail, but a Bailout, for well placed Enemies of the People.
The Democrats can take no issue with the Republicans—save the fake issue of their collusion with Putin— because there is so little difference between them and the Republicans on most real issues.
The good news is that Komrade Trumpski is his own worst enemy. The dummycrats won’t have to do anything except take credit when he inevitably craters. (Hey, it worked for Reagan when he took credit for the fall of the USSR)
Notice that Sanders’ ideas are — as the mainstream media say — beginning to gain traction (what? Lots of people already agreed with him months ago?). When he pushes “Medicare for all” the Democrats are going to have a very tough choice to make: do something useful or be the same fawning lickspittles they’ve always been. The Republicans, if they’re smart, will co-opt Sanders’ idea and slap a Republican sticker on it. “We are delighted to roll out medicaRepublican, which provides healthcare, but nothing related to birth control.”
The Republican objection isn’t to medical coverage, per se. It’s to allowing those dirty sluts to have control of their dirty, dirty, sexy, dirty bodies.
«The Republican objection isn’t to medical coverage, per se. It’s to allowing those dirty sluts to have control of their dirty, dirty, sexy, dirty bodies.» Alex, while I willingly agree that there is a prominent sexual component to Republican views on medical care, I fear you’re here missing the point ; their main objection is to the anti-free market notion that any of their tax dollars should go to help the undeserving poor. As bailout after bailout has shown, however, they do not feel the same revulsion for the notion that tax dollars should go to the deserving rich. Quod licet Iovi non licet bovi….
Henri
Henri,
Fair point. However, I look at almost all politicians from the same lens. “Talk one way, and act another.” So for the Republicans to say, for instance, “Abortion is evil,” is by no means anything they’ll even think when they’re sneaking one of their daughters into a hospital for a “procedure.”
And it’ll always be the same outraged utterance: “She’s a good girl. Why can’t you leave her alone? How dare you attack her in this very private decision?”
When it’s some lower-economic-class Latina? Then it’s “The whore should keep her legs shut. Why can’t we sterilize these beaneaters on their way out of the womb?”
But those Republicans who think that way are the Old School ones. The New School ones think roughly the same, but in ways that are more palatable to the middle-of-the-road Republicans.
The reality is that NOW the “war on drugs” is coming to lower-class, undereducated white men who can’t cope anymore. They’re popping bills and going nuts. I’m getting my bet down right now. For the midterms? THE key issue will be response to the opioid epidemic. And the Republicans are going to realize pretty quickt hat they need universal health care just to cover the costs of Trump’s programs.
Somehow, Ted, the notion of the suits and pearl necklaces at the DNC as maquisards made me laugh. But isn’t that what a cartoon is for – to make people laugh ?…
Henri
“Bipartisan cooperation” will win the game once and for all.
😀
Mein verehrter Lehrer, I may have a jaundiced view of recent legislative history in the US, but my impression is that «[b]ipartisan cooperation» has mainly been evident when the US has wanted to start a new war somewhere ’round the globe….
Henri
The hysterical Russia-Putin gate COULD have been the Dems Benghazi-Benghazi-Benghazi …. but, of course, that would require that they controlled at least one house of congress.
And when they DID control BOTH houses of congress … & the White House?
Well, they neutered themselves politically by endorsing Obumma’s “strategy” of pathological bipartisanship.
The inanity of the Dems “resistance” is exceeded only by the fecklessness of their “rule.”