This new book takes an inside look at the Nutroots and their mega rich hard line fringe financiers who enable them to hijack what's left of the Dem party.
Noteworthy:
"The liberal billionaires, such as George Soros and Peter Lewis, and the bloggers, such as 'blogfather' Jerome Armstrong, are certain of what they’re against, Bai demonstrates. They are passionate in their hostility to the Republican 'dictatorship,' the reviled George W. Bush, and his war in Iraq; they despise the evangelical “lizardheads” who live in 'Dumbfuckistan'; they detest the Clintons as compromisers whose strategy of triangulation has turned the Democrats, as they see it, into me-too Republicans chasing after the middle-class vote; they loathe the centrist Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and, as famed Hollywood liberal Norman Lear puts it, 'Joe "Fucking’'Lieberman'; and they are sure, insofar as they give it any thought, that the war on terror is largely a scam that has been sold to the 'morons' of middle America."
Notice anything in that passage that is a regular talking point on some of our own local "progressive" blogs?
This passage is dead on:
"The bloggers, for their part, are as emotionally stunted as the billionaires, but as inhabitants of 'a fantasy game inflected world,”' far less literate: 'The Daily Kos and other blogs resemble a political version of those escapist online games where anyone with a modem can disappear into an alternate society, reinventing himself among neighbors and colleagues who exist only in a virtual realm.' Bai adds: 'One of the hallmarks of the netroots culture was a complete disconnect from history—meaning basically anything that happened before 1998.'"
The "complete disconnect from history" says it all for me. The ones I have come in contact with, and tried to reason with, refuse to accept that anyone, anywhere had a thought before they and their cohorts came on the scene.
ReplyDeleteDid you see my post on the YearlyKos convention? The Boston Globe put the attendance at 1200 and The Nation at 1500. Now this convention was held in Chicago where surely in any one of several suburbs they could find three times that many whackos, so I am sooooo underimpressed. Then The Nation pointed out "The Chicago gathering drew the entire constellation of political, policy and media elites in the Democratic Party's orbit, including representatives of virtually every national interest group, think tank and media outlet, along with visits from all the major presidential candidates. It was the party's most significant gathering outside Washington since sweeping the midterm elections". If that was the case I would have to believe that there were no more than a handful of bloggers who showed up. BB
They almost make Hillary look like a moderate.
ReplyDeleteThis fringe element actually thinks it can control the Dem party. They may be right.
A lot of pundits on both sides of the political aisle have almost conceded the presidency to the Dems in next year's election.
I think these folks are WAY too shortsighted.
If the Nutroots fringe actually starts dictating policy and the general direction of the party, Republicans will flat out step into the void (if they're smart enough), and someone like Guiliani will be a lock for the win against Hillary, who will have to play both sides against the middle.
The result will a resounding repudiation of the now extremist Democrat Party.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving set of politicians......
I've gotta get out more. I didn't know who Jerome Armstrong was.
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