Defrocking the Democrats(Volume I … May 2008 – December 2016)… a collection of commentaries, quotes and images that combine to expose the deeper & darker truths of the Democratic Party – what it isn't (and yet purports to be), & what it actually is (but refuses to openly display or admit)via Scaughdtan (i)am publication1
NOTE: This work is Purpose-fully non-copyrighted, and may therefore be copied, reprinted, forwarded &/or gifted onward in whatever ways any of its readers deem fit. That having been said, the author would also like to remind anyone so doing that, just as these Truths have been given to all for free, so too should they be freely given onward to others – fully profitless to the giver; without any additional costs or conditions attached to the receiving thereof … Thank you.2
“I now understand that the real monsters in life aren't the ones who wear scary costumes and scream loudly while wielding their bloody cudgels.No, the real monsters are the ones who dress nicely and say all the right things while smiling lovingly and pretending to care.” ~ via Martin Ortiz3
“Democrats are now, and indeed always have been, tools of the American Empire. Indeed, theirs is not a vision for humanity's future that most good and decent people hold. And yet Democrats do act like they have that vision, which can make it very difficult to extract ourselves from their party politics and see both sides – the Democrats and their Republican opponents – clearly for what they are: different but equal evils. In essence, while Democrats may talk a more gentle talk, their walk is as war-mongering and as wealthy-pandering as even the most conservative of their Congressional counterparts. Maya Angelou said it so well: When people show you who they are with their actions, it is our job to believe them and act accordingly … There's a reason why it's been said that liberalism is the left wing of fascism; why it has been said that the Democratic Party is where all social justice movements come to die. Because what Democratic politicians have proven over and over and over again is that they have a patent lack of solidarity with those who are actually being oppressed. And as such the liberals who support those same blue-vested charlatans have a lack of understanding that they themselves are being used; apatent lack of realizing that their leaders' high-minded platitudes are always coupled with either vapid inaction or velvet opposition to the same. These people scream from the rooftops that Oligarchyis Bad, all while passionately supporting oligarchs of their own.” ~ inspired by Saul Williams4
An Introduction to what Follows…If you had told me back when I was in college (during the Reagan years) that the Democrats -- even their most “progressive” members -- would some 20 years later become a verifiable gaggle of hypocritical virtue-signalers, and thereby actually do far more harm to Americans than their more openly fascistic Republican cousins, I would have said that you were completely batshit crazy ... And yet here we are.While any objective study of the United States as a nation will reveal that it was founded by oligarchs and established primarily for the benefit of their wealthy successors, and that the United States has been essentially acting as an Empire since the days of Teddy Roosevelt, there was always at least an apparent semblance of democratic viability in the country up through the early 2000's. In essence, Americans were all told – and reasonably believed – that they had at least two options every election; that they had a limited choice, true, and yet a choice nonetheless – a choice between the rugged individualism, mostly subtly racist, and rabid trickle-down capitalism of the Republicans and the far more egalitarian & far more socially just policies of the Democrats. Of course, after the War on Terror commenced at the turn of the millennium, the Democratic Party began to increasingly expose itself as being nothing more than a sweettalking side of the same capitalistic coin – nothing more than a tool of Empire in faux-caring, tattered clothing. Bill Clinton's policies in the late 90's (policies that openly pandered to corporate power and allowed the evils of neoliberalism to come into their own) and the Democratic machinations that followed (from Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton in the mid-2010's, to the reign of Joe Biden thereafter, to the vapid suck-uppery of all the Democratic members of the nation's current Congress) have now made it all too clear that the Democratic Party is no longer a viable alternative for any American interested in implementing the higher values of justice for all, international peace &/or economic equality. 5
It is true that Republicans politicians (with but very few exceptions) and their neoconservative ideology are barbaric, vile, and cold-hearted, and that the same must be actively opposed by any and all who are interested in the higher values that found any civilized society. That said, their Democratic counterparts and the neoliberalism that founds their more azure dogma are just that -- counterparts; just as corrupt, just as war-hungry, just as unjust, and just as non-compassionate. Essentially, it simply must now become clear as well – if we are ever to come together and get ourselves out of this mess – that the Democratic Party is just as corrupt and in many ways just as wicked as the Republican one, and therefore just as unworthy of our support. And so this volume of essays & illustrations came into being, with the intent of awakening you all to the aforementioned truths, and inspiring in as many of you as possible the realization that the salvation of the American society no longer resides in the voting booth; that the Democratic Party is no longer an option that will ever bring any substantively functional results; that the solution to the oligarchic fascism that is even now throttling the life out of your Constitution andall the good it once embodied is NOT to vote Blue No Matter Who until Republicanism isdefeated, but rather to stop voting altogether – to come together in each of our communitiesinstead; to wake up each day and go forth intent on Becoming the Caring Change ourselves thatDemocratic politicians have hollowly – and quitedisingenuously – promised us to be. Amen … Let it be so. Scaughdt (January 2026)“The U.S. has been Red & Blue since 1869, and where has it gotten you? Let me tell you – You have no paid maternity leave, no subsidized childcare, no universal healthcare, no livablewages, and no free or even viable education. There is actually nothing 'great' about Americanat all. You Americans think you have freedom of choice? You don't. As long as the Red & Blue reign over you, you the people are always going to come in dead last – dead last in life expectancy amongst English speaking countries, dead last in incarcerated citizens per capita, dead last in believers in an afterlife, dead last in gun ownership per capita, dead last in mass shootings, dead last in school shootings, dead last in both infant & premature adult death, dead last in health care costs per capita, dead last in maternal deaths among industrialized nations, dead last in wars caused, dead last in innocents murdered abroad, and dead last in democratically elected foreign governments overthrown.” ~ the Fuddhist6
The Beginning of our End …(05/05/2008)7
Neoliberalism Reinaugurated …(05/06/2008)8
A colder war Re-frigerated …(05/07/2008)9
Trading most Unfairly …(05/08/2008)10
An interest in Iraq …(05/09/2008)11
Highly criminal on Crime …(05/10/2008)12
Reanimating Rendition(05/11/2008)13
On tempering all the Talking …(05/12/2008)14
A truer Terrorism retried …(05/13/2008)15
Washing out the Welfare …(05/14/2008)16
Another dumber DOMA …(05/15/2008)17
A not-so-salivating Snack-time …(05/16/2008)18
An ode to Bill & Monica …(05/17/2008)19
Oh, there they Are & Were …(05/17/2008)20
Suborning the Sudan …(05/18/2008)21
Reneging on Regulation …(05/19/2008)22
A most blessed Ending …(05/20/2008)23
The dawning of a darker Day …(06/02/2008)24
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Nominating a nastier Normal …(06/03/2008)26
Who he truly Was …(06/04/2008)27
Just another Ruler …(09/11/2008)28
His win, our Loss …(11/04/2008)29
Another dolting Duncan …(12/16/2008)30
Revisiting the Requirements …(01/20/2009)31
Commencing the next Crime …(01/22/2009)32
Reopening the Closing …(01/23/2009)33
Reigniting Rendition …(02/01/2009)34
Bailing out the Billionaires…(02/17/2009)35
Banking on more Blood …(02/17/2009)36
Harping on the HAMP …(02/18/2009)37
Confabulating the Clarity …(02/24/2009)38
Down before the Devil …(04/01/2009)39
Weaponizing the Wireways …(04/03/2009)40
War behind the Walls …(04/09/2009)41
Traipsing around Torture …(04/16/2009)42
Visiting the Invisibles …(04/20/2009)43
Fighting silence by Screaming …(04/23/2009)44
Reconstituting the Constitution …(05/21/2009)45
Recalibrating the Call …(06/04/2009)46
Honing away our Health …(06/15/2009)47
hammering Honduras homeward …(06/28/2009)48
Another heinous Hypocrisy …(12/10/2009)49
A most peculiar Universe …(12/10/2009)50