[Vision2020] yet more of the same

[Joan Opyr]

On 7 Mar 2006, at 07:48, joekc at adelphia.net wrote:

> We see again that the best way to criticize the comments of a 
> progressive is to turn them into something else and criticize that 
> instead!
> --
> Joe Campbell
>
> ---- ToeKneeTime at aol.com wrote:
>
> =============
> Yes, I see.......  No inconsistency at all.  Walmart is the big  
> symbol of
> corporate capitalism, so they are first to come under attack.   After 
> they have
> been closed up, we can expand our campaign against free  enterprise 
> and get
> this country headed toward it's ultimate destiny as a  socialist state!
>
> Yes, It's all clear now.  Thank you, my comrades on the progressive  
> left,
> for helping to crystallize our goal in my mind.
>
> The struggle goes on....
>
> Clint Hillaryton
>

Here's an observation -- only on the delusional, power mad, whacked-out 
far right, is Hillary Clinton considered a wild-eyed liberal and/or 
progressive.  She ranks on the Political Compass in the upper right 
quadrant along with George Bush, John Kerry, and Margaret Thatcher.  
She's a staunch pro-business capitalist (just like her husband); she's 
opposed to gay marriage; and she's a devout Methodist (like our current 
President) who has taken to wearing her Christianity on her lapels 
(also like our current president).  At this point in my life, I am not 
willing to make the ethical or political compromises that would 
necessary to vote for her.  If she's the Democratic nominee, I'll look 
elsewhere for my candidate.  I'm sorry I made compromises (and excuses) 
for John Kerry.  I still believe that he would have been a better 
president than George W. Bush -- and so would my dog, Davey, who knows 
not only how to sit and stay but also how to get up and go fetch.

I voted for John Kerry because he represented a safe choice rather than 
an ideal choice.  I also prefer genuine war heroes to chicken hawks.  
Quite apart from all of that, the whiff of the Bush Administration's 
corruption was beginning to choke me.  They've gutted the Clean Air Act 
in more ways than one.  However, under John Kerry, we'd still be in 
Iraq; we'd still be in debt; and we'd still be coping with the ever 
rightward tilt of political discourse.  The moderate middle now is to 
the right of where Richard Nixon was in the seventies.  Remember Nixon? 
  Created the EPA?  Orchestrated detente?  And all while suffering from 
paranoid delusions and taking advice from that rat-eating chrome dome 
G. Gordon "Headshots" Liddy?

I am on the progressive left, Toe-Knee-Hokey-Pokey Time.  Hillary 
Clinton is not.  In fact, she's sitting in your lap.  (Don't let the 
fact that she's wearing Armani rather than a bunny suit fool you.  
She's Joe Lieberman in a skirt.)

Reclaiming the far left for the real far left,

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com