I am giving myself a Time Out. I have no idea how long it will last.
I find it the only thing I can do when the Owner and Publisher of the Daily Kos uses the same words to smear my point of view as the racist, white supremacist president.
When Kos, one of my all time favorite bloggers and website publishers asked us here at Dkos, rhetorically, according to Branko Marcetic writing in Jacobin magazine, and I quote;
“The day after the incident, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas wondered if anyone “outside of the alt-left” was “still pretending that “last year’s election was about economic anxiety.” A Daily Kos contributing editor blamed the neo-Nazi march on the “alt-Left,” who “in their drive to smear the ‘impurity’ of Clinton on economic justice issues, excused the racism and bigotry that is Trumpism,” which was “stinging very hard now.” Others made a similar point.”
This blog has taken the point of view that the loss of the Clinton Presidency was entirely the fault of those who supported Sanders, and that despite reams of evidence to the contrary, persists in this twisted form of Blame The Left. No culpabilty is considered from the Center or Neoliberal or Right Wings of the Democratic Party, as to a flaccid message, a dull campaign, an overreliance on data points which were old, an analysis of the Last Election which did not take into account changes in the electorate, none of that. Just Blame the Left. Oh, excuse me, the “alt-left,” whatever that is.
In order to further smear the only part of the Democratic Party which sincerely campaigns for economic justice for WHATEVER COLOR, race, language, status, gender, identity or nationality, and not merely Corporate Welfare and Move the Wealth to the Top, Kos used the invented term “alt-left” which is now being used as justification to hurt, beat, bloody and kill people on the left of the Democratic Party.
Until we see a full-throated apology and a persuasive series of essays from the founder concerning how this imaginary “alt left” was a creation of those who need a target, literally, to aim at, within the Democratic party, I cannot be here. I asked politely earlier for an apology and retraction, but have heard crickets.
Now we have the racist, mysogynist fascist Republican party using the invented term, and its President blaming the left for, apparently, not carrying guns, knives or Dodge Challengers and using Vox Media to issue death threats to the protesters..and yet being the mirror image of the Alt-Right, which is self-named. Equivalency, indeed.
This should not be construed as a GBCW diary. This is a TOCW Diary, so that I can read, reflect, gather evidence and someday, perhaps, make a comment. Or a diary. I hope that by that time, Left will be seen as having been right all along.
I am and always have been, a lightweight here. I will not be very much missed, but I feel it is unconscionable to continue any longer. Like Richard Trumpka today, I resign.