From Sapphocrat at Lavender Liberal comes this amazing graph of Obamabots’ “persuasion” tactics.

It reminds me of the wheel of violence and Anglachel’s post.

When you’ve got as many old blog posts as I do, you run the risk of repeating yourself, often. And I do that.

A long time ago I wrote a post to Jovial and Wonder about good Germans. Both are progressive Christians, you know the kind that actually follow Christ’s teachings instead of using the bible as an excuse for greed and hate. The point of the post was that my disgust over the corruption of Christianity was not the fight they needed to have. The fight they needed to have was with those people who also called themselves Christians and then distorted the message so that ALL Christians get painted with the crazy paint.

And now I find myself in the position of the Good Germans.

My party has been taken over by a charismatic cult of personality.

And over and over again I am threatened, harassed, bullied, and extorted to put my support behind The One. For the sake of party unity, for the sake of the November elections, for the sake of the Supreme Court, for the sake of the war. I am being bullied into supporting someone who gives me more pause than even 100 years McCain. McCain is awful for sure, but he is not running as a transformative religious cult figure.

And I cannot be a Good German. I believe in my gut that Obama is more wrong for the democratic party and for our country as a whole than any candidate I can remember. He is the Reagan of the Democrats, and we all remember how truly awful the Reagan years were for anyone who wasn’t white and male and American. Reagan is not a name anyone with real progressive philosophies would invoke in a positive light.

I understand those Dems who will hold their nose and vote for Obama for fear of the the supreme court or destruction of the party. But please understand, I cannot and will not be a good German on this. More than just the integrity of the party is at stake.

I cannot vote for someone who will use poor people, working people, brown people who aren’t AAs, and women as scapegoats.

I cannot vote for a Demoratic party that has turned itself into the party of elite “liberal” thinkers.

I cannot vote for a Democratic party that is not inclusive of everyone.

And I will fight my own party tooth and nail to rescue it from the cultish turn it is taking. And if I cannot save my party then I will work my ass to find and create a viable alternative for all of us who have been shut out (again) from democracy.

If we don’t fight it now, in the beginning when it is easiest, then the fight will get much more difficult later.

Obamabot Bingo! (Click to embiggen)

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You are a troll and obviously an attention whore. You were warned yesterday that you are not welcome on my blog. I do not allow biggots or liars or people who are just tediously boring to comment here. You are the trifecta of all those things. You do not add anything of value to the conversation but you do manage to make blogs you troll the All About Tiny Penis Boy show for awhile. Look, you even have a whole blog post dedicated to your tiny cock now. I can only assume you are a masochist who gets
off on public humiliation. Now that you have been exposed i hope that you will have blown your wad (OMG a girl wrote a whole blog about my wee little man nugget) and will kindly leave. And don’t forget to take you spooge covered tissues with
you. All future comments from you will either be deleted or replaced with cute kitteh pics.

Sincerely, RQ

If you originally said you could no more disown Rev. Wright than you could disown the black community, what does you’re recent break with Rev. Wright signal to the black community?

Are they expendable if their support becomes too controversial too?

I keep wanting to like Jeff Fecke, I really do. He really does want to be an ally.

But Jeff has thrown his hat into the “Why won’t that stupid bitch quit” already ring.

He couches it in kindler, gentler terms so us dumb girls don’t catch that he’s really saying “Either take your boobs and go home or play nice. Like a good girl. And stop with the meanness”. Or as one commenter at Shakes said “She can stay in the race as long as she’s not trying to win it”

Lemme point out a few things.

No other candidate with this many delegates has ever been put under the same kind of pressure to quit.

No other candidate who polls so well in the national election and keeps winning swing states has been under this much pressure to quit.

But she’s a girl. And the Precious doesn’t want to compete with a girl anymore. He won’t debate her anymore. And she is looking at a couple of major wins in the next round of primaries. And Florida and Michigan want their votes counted too. It’s just too much for the Precious to endure.

But according to Jeff, if Hillary wants to stay in the race she totally can. As long as she avoids any mention of her opponent. Or his flaws. Or his lack of experience. Or his sexism. Or the fact that the working class doesn’t trust him.

Wait- you know what. Hillary has been avoiding that kind of talk. She’s talked about policy and issues, how she would solve the serious problems of this country and how she really does care about us “bitter” little people.

We, the people, have talked about his lack of experience, his sexism, the fact that we just don’t trust him.

Links and details at Uppity Woman’s place

Whaddya waiting for. Go!

The split in the Democratic party you are worried about- it’s not racism that’s causing it.

It’s the misogyny, stupid.

And it’s still the misogyny here too.