Making Sure One is On the Right Team (updated)
When one takes the time to read liberal blogs a pattern quickly becomes apparent. When one is so entangled in the system of our government it obscures what one is actually cheering for or raging against. The line, ideologically speaking, becomes so blurred that thankfully one is able to determine which people deserve cheering or choking with a simple initial next to their name proudly proclaiming R or D! A member such as Arlen Specter, once a Republican and embodying everything “wrong” with our society, can change his party affiliation and suddenly this baptism allows for the ignoring of his policy beliefs by the liberal masses.
Devoted members of “Team Democrat” are fervently against even primarying these chameleon politicians that help water-down or destroy legislation designed to help those that actually need it. Instead, we’re treated to cute lines about not making the perfect the enemy of the good. They obey every word of the Obama administration and because Obama wants to dilute any progressive element from his party, they will defend them at the cost of alienating possibly the only redeemable elements of their party. The struggles of organized labor in their attempts to purify a party undeserving of its allegiance are dismissed as liberals quickly align themselves against workers with the Republicans.
The needless murder of men, women, and children is the point that made this entry my next. At the turn of the century Team Democrat, in fears of losing is electoral relevance cheered on Bush’s disgusting wars. Often they campaigned earnestly against their Republican opponents as to who supported the subjugation of Iraq and Afghanistan more, and again progressives and leftists were dismissed and silenced. Then, as Bush lost his poll numbers, Team Democrat decided to embrace its anti-war cousins – although only conveniently and cosmetically. Now that St. Obama, patron saint of hope and change, leads our righteous and godly nation these wars have regained their former glory. Iraq, the indefensible and ultimate sin, is still looked at sideways but the moment a general justifies his or her existence by saying more time is needed, the liberals practice their best military salute. Afghanistan is again the “right war” and our tax dollar tithes are needed to continue bombing perhaps 75 individuals in a country about the size of Texas. Notice it isn’t even about Osama bin Laden anymore, he isn’t even used as a motivator anymore. It’s become so obvious that we have never intended to capture this individual and even need him to live, that his mention doesn’t even spark interest anymore.
So while these liberals will rightfully rant and rage against the sins of the right, they miss the obvious point that their own party is culpable in these very same atrocities and fail to realize that they have helped cheer these crimes on. Afghanistan and Iraq are still just as much a practice in perfecting mass murder as they were under Bush. Guantanamo is still a concentration camp and its occupants just as deserving of freedom. The oppression of homosexuals should stink just as badly. The human face that liberals like to attach to the face of the capitalist system doesn’t hide these crimes for anyone but themselves. That face is there only to stifle the progress of its detractors, not to encourage it. Is it any wonder that the father of Team Democrat called us “subjects” before attaching the human face of “citizens” in our founding document?
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Keep in mind that a lot of the people responsible for the liberal presence on the Net are upper middle class, often with some kind of professional background.
Of course, that’s not outcome determinative as to specific individuals, certainly not in my case, but may still explain quite a lot. In other words, many of them want to feel progressive while not doing anything that challenges their relative economic preeminence. While living in Davis, California (an upper middle income UC town just west of Sacramento), I frequently encountered this, they were ready for action until it looked like something might actually happen as a result.
Politics was a kind of therapy for them, an attempt to enhance their self-esteem.
Recall what Alexander Cockburn scathingly said about Al Gore in 2000: his only real constituency were liberals who made over $100,000 a year.
Combined with this is a form of resentment: how dare Team Obama not listen to ME and people like ME.
Richard, your description makes a lot of sense. We see too often that a liberal or progressive group has the clout to actually manage successful change over one policy area or another and seemingly always manage to crumble at the last minute and that fear actually makes a lot of sense. These individuals might have to give up some of the luxuries they enjoy, then realize this, and suddenly having a clean conscience isn’t nearly as important as appearances.