This is a diary written in response, in a way, of jm214's diary "Realists," or just a group of Grima Wormtongues?.
First, I'd like to be disgusted. Is this what dKos is becoming? Call someone a fantasy villain, one who used 'malicious words like a serpent'? The one who killed and ate a Hobbit? To my knowledge, despite my 'Pragmatist/Realist' views, I've never eaten anyone, let alone a hobbit. But this is what I'm accused of, under the umbrella of '?'. Maaaaybe I'm a cannibalistic lying serpant. It's just a question!
More after the jump.
Perhaps the most disgusting thing of this outrage of a diary.. And the sort of meta BS it's like.. Is the denigration of things as simple as math and fact. The writer reacts to a suggestion to count up the votes is that this 'crystallized' his view of a segment of liberals as nothing more than conniving snakes. When you cannot get the votes to beat out the underhanded form of filibuster created for this day and age, it doesn't matter. You can't just push it by force of will.
Yes, everyone's upset that the filibuster has changed to one person saying they will and that's it. Unanimous Consent is a poor method of running the Senate, but trying to get that changed will require some actual work, in electing and extracting promises from Senate candidates to roll back the rule. It requires more than complaining about Wall St, or Obama, or whatever you care to whine about.
I'm not going further into the diary I am discussing, because it becomes a word salad of buzzes from the idealists and pragmatists both. But frankly, it's ridiculous. It's more ridiculous my first diary is in response to this. It's deranged that you can casually call the opposing side of this divide anything and up to a fantastical villain who was a murderer and cannibal.
In short, I am venting against the meta. Not in general. But the deranged viciousness of it.