Not Getting It
Most of the Democrats I know seem to be taking this remarkably well. Or else they're under some form of sedation. But apparently some of the prominent Demo bloggers are not; openly rooting for American defeat in Iraq, economic recession, and so forth. This always was the fringe position, and might have been heard from better Democrats in their worse moments. But if it comes onto the front porch, the party truly is in trouble.
Belgravia Dispatch visits some of the bad temper on the mainstream Demo sites, and scolds the trend:
Meanwhile, I found this snippet, buried at the end of an AP analysis this morning, revealing. Errol Morris, the Academy Award-winning documentary maker who filmed a series of anti-Bush TV commercials during the campaign, said, "One of the reasons I wanted Kerry to win is that I wanted the luxury of not having to think about politics. And now that's not going to happen." I suspect that sentiment is true for more than him. World affairs, alas, refuse to cooperate in the effort to return them to "nuisance" level.
Belgravia Dispatch visits some of the bad temper on the mainstream Demo sites, and scolds the trend:
They don't get it, do they? Such fifth-column-like talk is a big reason why they lost this election. Because broad, centrist swaths of the American polity find such rhetoric noxious, irresponsible, morally defunct, defeatist, lazy and indulgent. This abject abdication of American responsibility on the global stage--arrived at through such a myopic, provincial lens--is a pity, I guess. But, then again, this Moore-inization of the Democratic party's younger, activist base--including the increasing fusion of political thought with 'entertainment' (read: crude, imbecilic popular culture offerings--whether pseudo-documentaries a la Moore or risibly parodic P. Diddy-esque "political" activism and such)--does have, er, a "silver lining" of sorts. At least if you are a card-carrying Republican. It's that the Democrats won't be able to turn their electoral disadvantage around in either of the '06 midterms or '08 Presidential--certainly not if their strategy is to root for defeat in Iraq! It's not only morally despicable, of course, for Iraq, for us, for our soldiers, for all the Iraqi citizens who don't wish to trade the previous Baathist thuggery for the cruel yoke of Islamic fundamentalism, say. It's also just plain dumb on a tactical level.
Meanwhile, I found this snippet, buried at the end of an AP analysis this morning, revealing. Errol Morris, the Academy Award-winning documentary maker who filmed a series of anti-Bush TV commercials during the campaign, said, "One of the reasons I wanted Kerry to win is that I wanted the luxury of not having to think about politics. And now that's not going to happen." I suspect that sentiment is true for more than him. World affairs, alas, refuse to cooperate in the effort to return them to "nuisance" level.
