The Democratic Salvation And The Idiotic Left

"We have no political parties. We've never had much of them -- I mean the Democrats, the Republicans. We have one party -- we have the party of essentially corporate America. It has two right wings, one called Democratic, one called Republican. So in the absence of politics, with a media that is easy to manipulate and, in the hands of very few people with interests in wars and oil and so on, I don't see how you get the word out, but one tries because there is nothing else to be done."
—Gore Vidal, interviewed by Mark Davis, Dateline, SBS TV, Australia, March 12, 2003.



(Swans - November 6, 2006) What do American fake-Progressives, busy signing liberal manifestos, self-defined pseudo-Marxists, and laptop-Revolutionaries do when they want to fight the Republicrooks du jour? Do they unite and promote third-party candidates like the many worthy of consideration in the Green Party? Do they fight for, and advocate change? Do they come with proposals, platforms, no-nonsense politics? Some do and some don't, in lengthy essays and posts all over the blogosphere, but in any case, when the time comes for another biennial election cycle, whether congressional or presidential, they tend to have second thoughts. Things are so dire, the danger so grave -- Bush is a moron, incompetent in waging war, a fascist in disguise -- that one should put aside the long-term strategy of change and adopt a more flexible and short-term tactic. In other words, these people, again from the softest of the soft to the hard left, get suddenly united by the siren of expediency: They strongly advocate to vote for what Joel Hirschhorn, the author of Delusional Democracy, calls the Democraps. Then with the elections over, win or lose, they go back to their "progressive," pseudo-Marxist, or revolutionary fancies, discoursing on the merits of uniting again for the long struggle toward a better world...till the next time (that will be in 2008). As these useful idiots know well, the differences between the Republicrooks and the Democraps are of the order of night and day, no less. Here is a clear demonstration:

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