The River

Friday, January 27, 2006

Come on

Digby:

But the way some people are acting, if we now lose this one [Alito] it will be seen by the grassroots as just another example of Democratic fecklessness, even Kerry's fecklessness, which is self-defeating and unfair. If we carp when our elected politicans take risks just as we carp when they don't take risks, they have no motivation to listen to us at all.


When will the Democratic pundits admit that their leaders have been nothing more than shameless enablers of the right wing takeover for about as many years as I've been alive?

The 2004 presidential election was the biggest sham ever perpetrated on the American people. No, that's not quite right, 9/11 would have to take that shameful spot. No, perhaps it's handing Bush the authorization to use military force, thereby opening the way for endless, undefined war (and endless, undefined war powers for the executive) without the need of Congressional vote, or, conveniently, responsbility.

Admiting to those realities and the Dems' enabling role and changing the paradigm would take leadership and guts, the antithesis of "fecklessness." But Kerry could care less.

On the bright side, "Democrat=feckless" has entered the mainstream. (thanks Harry, for your tireless efforts)

Comments:
When will the Democratic pundits admit that their leaders have been nothing more than shameless enablers of the right wing takeover for about as many years as I've been alive?

Bruce, that is a truth that I forced myself to unlearn. I'd be willing to bet they did the same and for similar reasons. It is "unreasonable" to view US governance as a long running scam. Being "unreasonable" makes you a pariah, foil hatter, crackpot and shrill. I didn't become fully comfortable with being a pariah until a few years ago. Hell, I almost voted for Kerry. Now it remains to be seen if the Dem last gasp dead enders will ever develop the courage of their convictions. Michael Smith and others have met them more than halfway already and have developed a viable strategy. All it needs are numbers. At this point, wasting time, energy and money on the Dems is contemptible. I think Digby et al know that, but have invested too much to feel comfortable changing course. It's the same fallacious pattern as people who constantly pay to fix a lemon. It's too hard to admit the thing sucks and will never, ever run properly.
 
it's getting pathetic. Even BuzzFlash and Molly Ivins can see the writing on the wall.

And once they develop the courage of their convictions, it's tinfoil hat time. Then they can sing the immortal Dylan song with us visionaries: "how does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone."
 
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