deathtokoalas

c'mon.

senator gillibrand wants to run for president, and saw an easy way to get rid of a prime competitor. the truth is as simple - and as cynical - as that.

Aaron N

Democrats are so unbelievably weak, Republicans get away with murder all of the time and Democrats throw all of their people under the bus and run away from any type of criticism.

deathtokoalas

see, here's the truth about this: the democrats operate on the principle of every man, woman and dog for itself, while the republicans have retained this lingering concept of solidarity from their whig days. the american system is really absolutely bizarre, in terms of the spectrum. these ideas of liberalism and conservatism have been chopped up and distributed in ways that most of the world has a hard time making sense of. but, this is really a lot deeper and a lot more philosophical than is immediately obvious.

the democrats don't seem to care about due process, but they do seem to care about careerism. and, this is how you would expect a conservative party to approach the ideals of liberal individualism, isn't it? not thoreauvian, but randian. it's selfishness as a virtue. no solidarity, just social darwinism. and, so long as there's a level playing field, these warped concepts of neo-liberalism actually think that's ok - normal, even. natural.

and, even after everything else has been swapped out of the republican party, after abolitionists have been replaced with klan members, they retain this collectivist urge. they're a nihilist party, no doubt. they're what a collection of post-truth liberals would imagine that uneducated conservatives would want a conservative party to be: a warped projection of liberal elitism. and, of course, their voters are clueless. they don't know what i'm talking about. but, this hive mentality persists.

i'm a hard leftist. i don't like either of these parties, but i'm used to looking at the democrats as a lesser evil. regardless, i can see the truth of things: a democrat would throw you under the bus to prevent their expensive shoes from getting wet, while a republican would throw himself in front of it in order to advance the party's interests.

for one used to gathering in public to chants of "solidarity!", the juxtaposition is increasingly alarming.