Daily Kos has been held up here as the poster child for how wonderfully enlightened the American left is, and the alternative community is duly invited to go find all the wonderful ideas and issues the outlet stands and fights for.
Apparently the "Herman Cain Award" is big on the left, so first off this is what it is:I linked to the Herman Cain awards reddit because a person can see there, first hand, the memes which people post, the ideas which they have about both the coronavirus and the available vaccines, whether they even make a distinction, their personal stated views about hospitals and doctors, and their calls for help, be it prayer warriors, go-fund-me, or other.
There was no point linking to the opinion part, because the substance lies in the actual deaths and the personal reasons each individual gave for why they didn't get vaccinated, why they ended up dying (or not), and how many children or other family members they left behind.
The opinion is for color. After you've read hundreds of accounts of folks dying unnecessarily you tend to develop feelings and opinions.
The person whose opinion I quoted is named Markos Moulitsas. He is the founder of the progressive blog Daily Kos. For those folks who are curious about what actual liberals, actual progressives, actual lefties believe and fight for you can go to this site and see for yourself.
The alternative community could stand to read up on what progressives actually believe and fight for. They might discover more similarities than differences. If they actually took the time to look and think.
https://www.dailykos.com/tags/Coronavirus
Well okay, so apparently trendy lefties like to go on Reddit, and amuse themselves by handing out "Herman Cain Awards" to "those stupid right wing anti vaxxers who got exactly what was coming to them".The Herman Cain Award is an ironic award given to people who made public statements of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy, and who have later died from COVID-19 or COVID-19 complications.
That then leads into our invitation to check out Daily Kos, so I started out by checking out their "Coronavirus" link to where they're at on the subject, here's the link:
https://www.dailykos.com/tags/Coronavirus
I would have expected the supposedly big hearted, issues driven lefties there to be beyond the throwing of spit balls at "stupid righties", and try and find some common ground to muddle through problems together, or at least stand and fight for your own ideas on problem solving. But nope, a lot of what you'll find there is just basically more kids throwing spit balls, passing out "Herman Cain Awards".
Here's three typical examples:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...ut-supplements
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...r-s-final-rant
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...-be-a-finalist
I could certainly follow along with them if they really were issue oriented, and demonstrating that they are out there fighting for Average Joes like me, but that's not what they're really about. Their coronavirus slogan may as well be "when an anti vaxxer gets sick, we'll point it out and we'll all have a good scoff at them".
Sooooo, what about "Herman Cain Awards" am I supposed to be enthralled with? All I see there is more meanness and division, and I'm not down with that. Not everything boils down to evil right wing and racism, the left needs to cut it with that shit and start championing for some real issues to get my attention. But that will take some self reflection, which will never happen with the finger of guilt and shame always pointed the other way.
That goddess for comedy. I know Jimmy Dorr isn't very welcome here because his mission as a traditional lefty is to take the left to task and make it better, but this little two minute skit is spot on with the obsessive labeling of everything we don't like these days:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U6Z7nCborE
As an aside: I had to walk on eggshells in pointing the mirror at the authoritarian Alt Right prevailing mentality over at The Project, it's nice to just be free over here and let 'er fly with that mirror towards the authoritarian left mentality. And yes, the left can be authoritarian as well. Shutting people down is authoritarian, what Trudeau is doing right now up in Canada in labeling protesters Nazi terrorists and freezing their bank accounts is authoritarian, and what do you think those never ending hard core lockdowns were all about.
When people are not free to move about and do their business, that's not freedom. It may not go as far as wet dreams about frog marching people off to Gitmo or dividing us up according to who are "Purebloods" or not, but they're both in the same authoritarian ballpark. It always goes back to "when my side does it it's okay, and when your side does it it's the worst thing in the world".