The imminent backlash of the Democratic Left.

[stupidicus]

431. it has long been inevitable

and as I've been arguing to the "new Dems" here, it will likely be best seen and most acute in those who've been subjected to the divisive BS they've been spewing every time the policies or practices of BHO have been condemned or criticized.

Pretense has long been gone and the unwelcome mat unfurled long ago for us "extreme lefties" which only appear extreme due to the endless rightward drift of pols of both political stripes in DC, and the distance that has put between us. Their "sit down and shut up lest the rightwingnuts end" fear card was bound to inevitably lose it's value as a behavior/attitude modifying tool, just as those terror alerts under Bush did, and accelerated the evaporation of it. So their efforts have really been more of a self-fullfilling prophecy than anything else. I've long thought and argued that such tactics are more damaging to their efforts than the sharing of criticisms could ever be, considering that the critiques are really nothing more than common knowledge. They on the other hand, have personalized things in a way not unlike the recent effort of the COC putting up money to keep "the Tea Party tools" off of the ballot.

Obviously the only thing us old lefties are good for is our vote, and it no longer even buys tolerance for dissent.

It could well be that what we're witnessing and would be participating in, is one of those "sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better" situations.