This is a message for all you Chicken Littles, you handwringers, you wannabe strategists, you people who have suggestions or doubts: I am vaguely calling you out.
Who you are is not really important. Why I am vaguely calling you out is also not important. In fact, it is better that both "you," and what you are doing, are never really defined. This has three advantages:
- First, it's easy. As long as both you and your actions stay open-ended and amorphous, you can potentially be as many people I don't like as possible without actually being anyone at all. This way, I win a huge argument with a lot of people, without actually engaging in an argument with anyone at all.
- Second, it allows as many people as possible to identify with me calling you out. Everyone is angry at something someone wrote on the Internets, so the emotional need to call someone out on the Internets is widespread. When someone reads and recommends this diary, they can also join in the pleasure of vaguely calling someone out for doing something. Now, I have a following.
- Third, it prevents me from ever having to justify my calling you out. If I was specific in who I was calling out, it is possible that their written record would contradict my vague reasons for doing so. That would suck, so I am not taking any chances. This way, I can never lose.
So yeah, I am calling you out. Whatever it is that you are doing is worse than being a Republican. Because of it, you need to be separated and quarantined from the rest of us. You words are a knife in the back of the progressive movement.
If we do lose anything, you will be entirely to blame. However, we won't lose anything, because progressives have won every single fight from the Iowa caucuses forward. We keep winning despite the dangerous, destructive, backstabbing stuff that you did. And you did it every single time.
You and your kind are everywhere. Fortunately, by vaguely calling you out, I have now stopped you from doing it again. So, I am pretty awesome. If others join me, they will have participated in that glorious triumph themselves. And if they follow me, neither I, nor they, can ever lose.
Update: I am not talking about them. How could you ever think I was talking about them? What they are doing is great. No--I am talking about you.
Update 2: Oh, for crying out loud, I am not talking about you. I was talking about them. You are the one projecting that I am criticizing you in this diary, not me. But hey, if the shoe fits...
Update 3: Thank you everyone for this productive discussion. Stay tuned for when I vaguely call more people out in my next diary. Onward to victory!
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