The one thing that you can take solace in with a general election between Clinton and Trump is the spectacle of mental gymnastics self-avowed progressives will undertake. Now granted, it’s like listening to the symphony put on by Nero’s fiddling while Rome burns, but hey, “pragmatism”.
The latest example has to be with the “outrageous” and “despicable” accusation by some, including the Sanders campaign, of “money laundering” by the Clinton campaign.
As one very respected and totally unbiased & nonpartisan diarist put it: Sanders “jumps the Megalodon with Laundering Lie”. It is “one of the ugliest, most pernicious lies I have seen come from either party this cycle. It is a smear that goes beyond desperation and speaks to a deficiency of character that is quite profound.”
As another respected (“I think?”) writer put it, in an effort of “coming clean on ‘Money Laundering’”: these are “bogus” accusations indicative of “a lapse of judgment”.
Now no doubt there was an equal backlash in 2014, when an esteemed DailyKos writer wrote on “Money Laundering, Koch Style”. With 236 recommends, this writer details a report from Washington Post about the:
...myriad ‘nonprofit’ organizations set up and shuffled around within the Koch network to fund what has become an almost exclusively anti-Obamacare campaign, and to conceal where all that money is actually coming from...
As one comment stated, with 24 recommends:
They are probably thinking ahead to the (fairly remote) possibility that many Republicans could be identified as bought and paid for by the Kochs.
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I think if the public realized how much money the Kochs were spending to buy the Republican party (and probably no small number of Democrats), that public might finally realize how deeply and comprehensively corrupt our politics really is.
Again, no doubt there was a backlash against this terrible, terrible lie. After all, “there were no crimes involved in getting that money; nor were there crimes involved in dispensing it.”
And these totally not hypocritical or partisan hacks must have educated the DailyKos community that it’s simply “more efficient for a centralized body” to do all this.
Or as another totally not hypocritical or partisan hack put it:
There are, also simply speaking, three major finite resources that campaigns make use of- money, time, and volunteers.
A coordinated campaign streamlines the expenditure of all three resources in order to reach the largest number of people through communication and field programs.
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The coordinated campaigns, however, combine field efforts…
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...to run a coordinated campaign is one of the single best investments…
Because really, “The accusation of ‘money laundering’ is false and offensive.”
Haim Saban just really cares about the Alaska Democratic Party.
DailyKos definitely isn’t being hypocritical because of partisan needs or anything, or course not! Especially since DailyKos loves laughing at the mental gymnastics of Republicans, which would look rather silly if they then partook in the same.
Dwight D. Eisenhower: “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
Or if you prefer,
Abraham Lincoln: “Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”