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Odd. But it's beginning to feel like a mission as I read the words of many on DU and other blogs.
We emphasize how terrible it is that the psychopaths in the Senate want one party rule. And by extension, while we may emotionally crave it ourselves in retaliation...we also need to accept that we are not entitled, nor should we be desirous of our own one party despotism. We haven't exactly shone when we controlled it all either.
This country simply isn't founded on that sort of concept. We're all about balance.
And we keep finding ourselves jumping at every shadow because we're not in power, and "they" are. But who are "they"?
We all know the word. What we should be able to do is distinguish it clearly from our age long opponents, the Conservatives.
The Enemy is the Neocon Movement. Our historic opponents are the Conservatives.
This enemy has invaded the Republican party, home of our traditional opponent.
Perhaps we'd find it helpful if we thought of the result somewhat like a hostage crisis. The Conservatives are hostage to the Neocons...and having been there for a while, subject to the propaganda and only seeing what they are allowed to see, they have begun to develop stokholm syndrom...identifying with their captors. This is clearly a defense mechanism that they wouldn't choose to do if they were not in captivity.
Our job, then, should be to rescue them. To rescue and return them to sanity. Surely this will mean that we must rebalance things, and remove them from the clutches of the PNAC/NEOCON Death Cult...but it also means we'll have to treat them with some kindness and understanding, and try and reintegrate them into the balance of power...not simply allow them to wither and be cast off as so much refuse in the wake of a crisis.
We'll need to return them, and ourselves to a reasonable semblance of our more original state...as balanced opponents, who could disagree but still show a modicome of respect for each other. Of opponents who could compete and politik without the express intent of Authoritarian domination.
And for that to happen we must develop sympathy for their plight. We just rescue them from the Neocons...we must save the republican party for Conservatives.
How do we do it? By distinguishing between our opponents and our enemies...by attacking our enemies instead of our opponents...and by making this distinction lucidly clear at all points. We have to let THEM (the Conservatives) know we don't hate them, only those who have taken them hostage, and that we would welcome our old opposition back.
How's that for an early morning, before coffee, thought :D
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