Fraudulent right-wing populist demagogy and how it is allowed...

[Postman]

For their part, the Democrats and Obama are—like the media—clearly intimidated by the Republican attacks and unable to mount a reply. They are terrified that a determined attack on the Republican Party and the Bush administration could, despite their best intentions, encourage among working people both popular anger against the capitalist system and unrealistic expectations of change. Such an outcome would cut across the interests of the Democrats’ real constituencies, Wall Street and corporate America.

These fears render the Democrats incapable of speaking with either sincerity or anger—the latter reserved exclusively for those to their left. Their cowardice and duplicity are what provide a political opening to the fraudulent right-wing populist demagogy of the likes of Palin and the Republicans.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/sep2008/pal-s05.shtml
The Sarah Palin speech:
Democrats and media cower in face of Republicans’ right-wing demagogy

[DJ13]

1. encourage among working people both popular anger against the capitalist system

What these kinds of capitalists dont want to admit is that we need to allow that anger, not try to diminish it, otherwise theres no fixing the problems our capitalist system has.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Notable:

Meanwhile, NBC’s Tom Brokaw proclaimed on the air minutes after Palin finished her speech: “Tonight makes a very auspicious debut as the vice presidential candidate before this hall and a national television audience. She could not have been more winning or engaging.”

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Assembled in the hall were the foulest elements of American society. The lily-white crowd—the number of black delegates had fallen from 150 in 2004 to 36 in 2008, barely 1.5 percent of the total—included a collection of religious fanatics, racists, anti-Semites and militant defenders of torture, militarism and inequality.

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After controlling the White House for all but eight out of the last 28 years, boasting a majority in the House of Representatives for 12 out of the last 14 years and in the Senate for more than eight out of the last 12, as well as having appointed seven out of the nine justices to the US Supreme Court, the attempt by the Republicans to masquerade as outsiders taking on Washington and its “elites” is quite simply ludicrous.