{"id":1830,"date":"2008-08-06T06:39:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T06:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-08-06T06:41:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T06:41:10","slug":"these_people_ne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1830","title":{"rendered":"These People Need To Go See Swing Vote…"},"content":{"rendered":"

via talkLeft<\/a>, we get this love letter to America from outrage blogger Skimble<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If McCain wins, it will be because Americans deserve him, just as we have deserved Bush Junior. If Obama wins, he will be a glorified janitor for the endless piles of shit the GOP left in its wake. Just as Bill Clinton was for Reagan and Bush Senior.<\/p>\n

\nOur complacency will be our downfall, and I no longer care. Let Rush Limbaugh and ExxonMobil have America – it’s becoming a crumbling shithole anyway.<\/p>\n

\nAnd on that happy note, we end the blog.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jeralyn at Talkleft sympathizes:<\/p>\n

All a Democrat can do is hope November comes quickly and our candidate wins, so we can get on with the business of fixing health care, ending the parade of right-wing ideologues as nominees for federal judgeships, preserve the independence of our Supreme Court, get out of one war (hopefully without getting back into another) and, fingers crossed, start to empty our prisons of non-violent offenders.<\/p>\n

\nBut for having those goals, and being excited that the convention is taking place in Denver, I might stop blogging about the election too. I’m not where Skimble is yet, but I certainly understand his thinking. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t.<\/b> I don’t begin to understand the toxic thinking behind that kind of position, and all I can do is link it to some deep kind of self-hate<\/a>. I’m unhappy with a lot of things about America – things which I think we need to fix and patch and shore up so it’s an appropriate vessel for our grandchildren. But it’s a grand and glorious vessel even so, and the journey so far – and the journey to come – is going to be an adventure worthy of the best in all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outrage is toxic, and some bloggers can only keep it going for so long…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}