Farewell to Cindy Sheenan


Activist posts last message at Daily Kos
I do not agree with Cindy Shennan's conclusions. But she is right about one thing in her "farewell" message. You are not allowed to question the orthodoxy of the American Left. Emphasis added.

I am deemed a radical because I believe that partisan politics should be left to the wayside when hundreds of thousands of people are dying for a war based on lies that is supported by Democrats and Republican alike. It amazes me that people who are sharp on the issues and can zero in like a laser beam on lies, misrepresentations, and political expediency when it comes to one party refuse to recognize it in their own party. Blind party loyalty is dangerous whatever side it occurs on. People of the world look on us Americans as jokes because we allow our political leaders so much murderous latitude and if we don’t find alternatives to this corrupt "two" party system our Representative Republic will die and be replaced with what we are rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland. I am demonized because I don’t see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person, I see that person’s heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?

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I have also tried to work within a peace movement that often puts personal egos above peace and human life. This group won’t work with that group; he won’t attend an event if she is going to be there; and why does Cindy Sheehan get all the attention anyway? It is hard to work for peace when the very movement that is named after it has so many divisions.

That doesn't mean that the American Right is any better.

I do believe that a movement built solely to protest without giving an alternative is doomed to "eat it's own young" as it were. If the only thing that brings people together is dissent, then you will just be fighting over scraps after the next revolution.

Sheenan's tragic mistake was believing that the Democrats were the rescuers that they pretended to be, or that they didn't have any agenda except controlling the power of the State.

She was misguided. And she was betrayed by the people she thought she could count on.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - May 29, 2007 at 05:31 AM  Tag


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