{"id":4221,"date":"2008-03-11T00:44:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T08:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/11\/five-minutes-after-they-are-sworn-in\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T00:44:37","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T08:04:25","slug":"five-minutes-after-they-are-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4221","title":{"rendered":"Five Minutes After They Are Sworn In"},"content":{"rendered":"

From CBrachyrhynchos<\/a>, in the comments at Feministe, and then quoted on Faux Real<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Portly Dyke\u2019s post <\/a>wasn\u2019t so much about not voting, it\u2019s about this whole idea that we should circle the wagons and not call Clinton or Obama to task when they reveal how they will be road blocks for progressives.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll agree with Portly Dyke. I\u2019m not a Log Cabin Democrat willing to put partisanship over basic human rights and decency. When Obama and Clinton reveal their anti-progressive stripes, I\u2019m going to call them on it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll make the claim now. With the way our two-party system is set up, partisanship is incompatible with liberalism and progressivism. We may make the pragmatic choice to hold our nose and vote for the lesser of two evils. But we should make it clear that our obligations are to social, economic and ecological justice, and the honeymoon between Democratic politicians and the left ends five minutes after they are sworn in.<\/p>\n

Queers are being murdered. Kids are being murdered. And I\u2019m sick of mewing about compromise, partisanship, bipartisanship and baby steps. I\u2019m sick of having \u201clesser of two evils\u201d thrown in my face every time I point out that the Dem\u2019s shit really does stink. I\u2019m sick of how presidential politics has become the litmus test when I want to change the entire fucking system: the congress, the courts, the statehouse, city hall, the trustees, the board of directors, the school board, the teachers, ceos, middle managers and line managers, the stockholders, the store shelves, the media producers, distributors, and audiences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obama or Clinton may be the best we can do this election cycle, but they ain’t the best we can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From CBrachyrhynchos, in the comments at Feministe, and then quoted on Faux Real: Portly Dyke\u2019s post wasn\u2019t so much about not voting, it\u2019s about this whole idea that we should circle the wagons and not call Clinton or Obama to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}