I got banned from Maryland Politics Watch.
You couldn't ask for more or better proof that the so-called "MoCo Progressive Blogosphere" is an Astroturfing Paradise.
Talk about bogus. The "house organs" refuse to publish critique of their employers.
I suppose I can just sit over here and repost "best of" sycophancies and mock the living shit out of them. Indeed, until I get automatic 100-percent passthrough of all non-scurrilous posts to Maryland Politics Watch, I shall do exactly that.
Today's ridiculousness:
First, I post a link to Doug Duncan's exceptionally pointed piece critiquing the total lack of vision of the County County in large part and the Maryland Assembly in smaller part. Then Adam over at MPW does the same. Then I posted to his blog -- where he violates WaPo copyright by posting the entirety of the letter to the editor -- my response to WaPo's blog of the letter, adding to the list of responses.
Then, to top it off, WaPo relocates the letter.
Not to violate their copyright -- Adam at Maryland Politics Watch has already done that -- I'll just repost my response to it, following:
Mr Duncan doesn't go so far as to say "I was wrong" and in fact he wasn't wrong... for the times in which he was County Executive.
But he's right. He correctly points out that most of the sitting Council are what old sailors call "Fair Weather Freddie", which is to say, when you've got red skies at night (sailor's delight) you can let this guy steer the ship because even if he falls asleep at the wheel, you're in deep waters far from anything and the weather looks great far beyond the horizon.
In such a situation, there's nothing that Fair Weather Freddie can possibly do that can trouble the ship, outside of maybe taking an axe and knocking out the bilge scupper plug, or maybe twisting the tail of Mrs O'Leary's Cow until she kicks over a kerosene lamp.
But we've got Red Skies At Morning (sailors take warning!) and Fair Weather Freddie doesn't know how to do anything but keep the ship of State headed in one direction. If Fair Weather Freddie isn't relieved by an Able Seaman, or better yet, some salty old dog of a captain who knows the reefs and can fight his ship, that ship's going to run aground running ahead of the wind, or heel right over in an unskilled turn. No, the storms are rising fast, but Fair Weather Freddie is too clueless to even see the signs and send for the Cap'n and Mates.
It's time to bring up the folks who know where the rocks are, who can read a map, and know how to steer without shifting the load.
Doug Duncan isn't that man, but he's no Fair Weather Freddie even if he isn't an Able Mate. When he sees the whitecaps coming at least he knows to raise a holler that will be believed and bring out the crew on the double.
Believe him when he says it's time for people with skills and vision in our government, not Fair Weather Freddie dreaming as he steers asleep on his feet.
"Adrift on the seas of Fate, the Ship of Fools is piloted by the Grateful Dead."
Judging from how upset the Powers-That-Think-They-Are and the actual Powers-That-Be seem to be, I am just going to have to register my candidacy, aren't I?
After all, no less than former (and generally WORSHIPPED by County Democrats) County Executive Doug Duncan has said:
Trust and confidence in government need to be restored, and it has to start with an honest accounting about the challenges we face along with a vision of where we want to go. It's time to be truthful to the public and acknowledge that government's capabilities must be reshaped for some time to come. Can state and local elected officials get back to basics by adopting zero-based budgeting and conducting a healthy review of government's core missions and competencies? Can they decide a program is no longer affordable and then cut it entirely out of the budget? Can they get ahead of the revenue forecasts and stop changing budgets every few months? Can they redesign services to face a new economic reality?
For their reelection's sake, they better hope they can, because if they can't, the voters will replace them with others who will.
And let's say baybee, you want redesign?
I'm a system administrator and a hardcore repackager of things that are known to work.
So, you gonna restore my postings, MPW?
2 comments:
I’ve been following some of the drama on MPW and I have to say that while I tend to find Maryland politics insufferably dull, disjointed, and irrelevant, this is starting to change.
On a similar note, I recently got banned from the city-data.com forums. If you’re not familiar with this site, it’s a website that purports to be about community ratings/reviews but turns out to be controlled by real estate commodification interests (e.g. realtors) who censor everything that makes them uncomfortable.
(If this is Web 2.0, I want Web 0.0 back. I can see why you are a Usenet devotée.)
Before I was banned I discovered a bunch of fellow ex-liberal D.C.-area residents along with other interesting people who fled this area for other states.
By the way, denial and PC rhetoric are very prominent features of the Democratic Party. People will pretend to be nice to you as long as you are not challenging their sacred leftist assumptions.
For too many leftists, liberal political dogma approaches the level of religion. For this reason and many others you can count me an apostate of the left. I think you kind of have to grow up in liberal / neoliberal culture to recognize the full extent of the delusions and lies it perpetuates (and how it enforces orthodoxy).
You got it.
I always wondered why there wasn't any clear "centrism" or "conservative" wings to the local Democrats, and it's quite simple.
One can't find them not because they don't exist; one can't find them because the leftists exclude them from discussion.
Being excluded from the debate, even if they were by far the largest group and the one with the deepest convictions, still their voices can have no effect if they remain unheard due to suppression.
This is getting practically Goebbelsian if rather less violently so.
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