Reply #55: Not so fast there...Obama and his ilk hope you leave the public forum [View All]

Certainly the DLC corporatists wish you'd either disappear or suck it up and lie down at their feet while ceding any personal efficacy to their vaunted wisdom, but the times they are a' changing. There is an increased disenfranchisement of everyone but the top couple of percent, and now that the establishment Democrats are increasingly unable to hide their lack of actual concern for the plight of those who truly fuel the economy, we will be seeing some shake-ups.

Obama has a messianic need to be beloved by all. Disregarding the realpolitik street-fighting of stewarding an effective (not fair, but merely effective) social order, he is following in Bill Clinton's footprints to be a transcendent Pied Piper of intellectual greatness. This is disgusting. This is self-aggrandizing. This simply won't work.

The difference between the left and the right is that the right considers ANY different approach as a vile assault on civilization itself. Understanding this is very helpful to understanding the interplay of modern politics: conservatives HATE any contrary view, but the FEAR it more, whereas liberals dislike different views, but accept that they're going to be there. This is why conservatives truly believe the media is liberal: to even mention abortion (to social conservatives) or progressive taxation (to fiscal conservatives) without spitting bile and a hate-filled face on a news program is to tacitly endorse it. Such things are treacherous underminings of all that is good. Liberals will hear the analogous "other side" and accept that people believe such things, and that's that. To a true conservative, all things threatening "the way things should be" are scourges of humanity itself and must be destroyed. Even though liberals sneer and deride the reactionaries' point of view, they accept the concept of plurality.

Enough said.