randy if not giddy liberals announce return of liberalism to political mainstream, rebirth of liberal identified agendas in thoughts and action of politicians and plebs - this because the W has so shamed and degraded conservatism with his botched war and his Rovenian manipulation of public discourse for strictly political ends, a credo manifested yet again in festering fed prosecutor scandal which seems destined to be the good riddance of politcal hack AG Gonsales - Gonsales will come to represent, in that they so shamelessly used and the AG so willing allowed the office to be used as nothing more than a partisan tool, this will come to represent as well as anything Bush has done that there purposes were always strictly politcal : gain control and hold it by whatever means because the coutnry is doomed otherwise.
whatever reason you impute this ethos to I'm not sure matters - that they seem to believe it with such zeal is what unsettles me. I've always maintain that the reason they fucked up the war so badly is because the war was only ever about domestic politics which is why they showed almost no interest at all re phase IV planning : there only concern was a gulf war 1 redux, nice theatre that in combo with 9/11 would allow them to browbeat liberals into whimpering submission and provide them with a huge fucking carrot to dangle before the bovine ignorant eyes of the masses needing to be lead somewhere by someone - just put a switch to their backsides and folks will cooperate - secretly, that's what they want!
i'm no activist, i'm not suggesting plebs rise up from their couches and demand better snacks - i don;t care, the dynamics woudl remain the same - just look at recent poll that suggests 60% of people vote because of perceived character of person they're voting for. Character?! what is that? what it is is the easiest way to reach a comfort level about a decision that really shouldn;t be so easy and shouldn;t be about comfort - if you want polticians to put on pantomimes for you, shadow plays that will softly conote or intimate the comfort food for the fraught intellie=gences of the country - well then sure character is what you'll want very much to base your decisionon - it easy to do
my point being to get back to the beginning: liberals rejoice at the return of liberalism but it's really just a game of back and forth: one rises and the other must necessarily fall because people are going to need to believe in something - but it means nothing more than that. More thought isn;t being invested, more insight provoked, more substance unearthed - the cattle move in a ceratin direction because they have to move in some diection - that the switch that drives them has been taken up by the left hand because the right has tired is meaningless to them.
Democracy is simply the refinement of ignorance into a more progressive command structure; the dynamics seem to suggest the democratic model is very much different from the serf/lord paradime out of which it grew, in reality though all things cohere within the one substance.
