REALPOLITIK / David Podvin

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REALPOLITIK

By David Podvin

Some well-meaning liberals are urging Howard Dean to ease up on the candor. These wary souls acknowledge the chairman is speaking forthrightly, but worry that being candid is not the way the political game is played.

They are absolutely right. The game is played by condemning kindness as weakness while praising cruelty as strength. The game is played by damning tolerant people for being sinful while lauding bigoted people for being moral. The game is played by lavishing empathy on the haves while exhibiting indifference towards the have-nots.
The game of American politics is played by inverting reality. Dean knows it, as do the millions of fringe people who support him, so the chairman and his fans have decided that the sick little game is over. In its place is a different game called “Ready Or Not Here Comes The Truth”. The introduction of this exciting new contest has dismayed conservatives and corporate journalists and establishment liberals alike. Right wingers and their sycophants despise being confronted with truth, which is understandable given that it reflects so negatively upon them.

When opposing conservatives, the most effective weapon has always been undiluted honesty… Truman and Kennedy and Johnson were totally indifferent to Republican complaints about being honestly critiqued. As a result these blunt leaders led the Democratic Party to victory...

The current generation of Democrats has lost the last six congressional elections by finessing the truth, compromising the truth, triangulating the truth, and generally avoiding the truth as though it had leprosy. Truman’s truth was that Republicans are toxic for America. Six decades later nothing has changed except the Democratic willingness to make the case...

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1. Too bad articles like this are hidden away on the Internet

This one should be seen by a lot more people then will end up seeing it. Sad....I agree with him wholeheartedly. Tell the truth and let the chips fall as they will. I am sick and tired of all the finessing going on in the Democratic Party. Be bold, what is there to lose by speaking up and out? America has been taken over by a Criminal Cabal and it needs to be stopped and the only way is to speak out about it.