No One Is Going To Save You Fools

[BR_Parkway]

If you don't read anything else tonight, read thereisnospoon's diary, No One Is Going To Save You Fools, and then read it again, and then stick it up on your refrigerator or your bathroom mirror:

Before I explain the generic insult, let me first make something perfectly clear: I am your enemy. That you don't know this is understandable: after all, people like me prefer it that way. But until you understand just what you're up against and why, you're going to continue to lose, and look like fools in the process.

Barack Obama has indeed sold you out. He and many of his Democratic colleagues have sold you out on healthcare, and they've sold you out on financial reform. You were looking for a savior, and you've been had--not an altogether atypical result for those looking for a strong leader to "save" them.

He hasn't done this because he's a bad guy. In fact, he's a great guy. I think he's doing pretty much the best job he can. He's sold you out because he's not afraid of you. And really, if I may be so bold, he shouldn't be afraid of you. You don't know who really runs the show, and you're far too fickle and manipulable to count on.


The first thing you need to understand about healthcare reform is what Jane Hamsher identified long ago: nothing--absolutely nothing--is going to trump the White House's deal with PhRMA and the insurance industry. The question you need to ask yourselves is: why? If you're intellectually mature enough to get past "personal betrayal" as your best answer, you'll be on the right track.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/16/815429/-No-One-Is-Going-To-Save-You-Fools

And with that wonderful lead in, the poster lays it all out bare - go read it, then read it again. As if there were ever any doubt.

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. Pull back the curtain

and view the brick wall. You knew it was there. But now you can see it in plain view.

[Selatius]

2. I long ago dubbed the right wing network of think tanks and institutes as The Apparat.

It's the machinery that the corporate class control in this country, and it acts as a backstop to the Republican Party. The person who wrote that article is a pure apparatchik in the sense that the person helped to build it and knows how to operate it.

We could use talent of that caliber on the left.

[NuttyFluffers]

3. THIS is easily the most important post in the past 3 months on here.

massive K&R.

you wanna know how the Right gets what it wants? fear, ordered unity, and message machines/propaganda. disobey the tenets to stir up a mob at your peril...
apathy has no power, organized vengeance does. watch the churches if you need an example.

[OneGrassRoot]

4. I agree -- and it's for EVERYONE who is truly here....

to better this nation and our collective lives.

I highly recommend reading, then re-reading this piece, and keeping it kicked!

:hi:


K&R

[BigBearJohn]

7. I agree! K/R

[Cetacea]

5. Or, It's the Media, stupid. nt

[ClayZ]

6. K and R

[GeorgeGist]

8. Obama is a Coward.

[druidity33]

9. WOW. K&R. nt.

[canoeist52]

10. An excerpt

"As the healthcare debacle went on month after month, I didn't ask myself why the Democratic politicians weren't pushing single-payer or Medicare for all. I wanted to know where the Left-leaning organizations were. Where were the think tanks, the message machine, the newspapers, the whole infrastructure? Where were the national, well-tested ad campaigns pushing Medicare for All? Where were the free screenings of Sicko at major movie theaters across the nation, complete with sponsored food & drink for those who attended and signed up to take action? Where were the mid-cycle ads done by Madison Avenue professionals targeting specific Senators and making them deeply uncomfortable? Where, in effect, was the message campaign?

It didn't exist. What we had were labor unions and the AARP delivering generic hopeful messages without an ounce of the power or creativity that one might find in a random Budweiser ad.

If you want to win, ORGANIZE. Develop parallel organizations willing to persuade with the power and intensity of a corporation. As long as people like me are out there, and most of them are willing to work for the highest bidder, you'll need to stop looking for saviors, and instead learn to fight fire with fire.

The upcoming battles won't wait for us, and there won't be anyone coming to save us but ourselves."

[BR_Parkway]

12. Yeah, that's where it hit me between the eyes

[Lasher]

11. There is a reason 'liberal' is a dirty word in many circles.

And this is it.

[OneGrassRoot]

13. Bam! n/t

[iceman66]

14. Everyone here should read this.

Especially anyone trying to blame the whole health care mess on Obama.