Where Liberals Go to Feel Good

[4dsc]

Barack Obama is another stock character in the cyclical political theater embraced by the liberal class. Act I is the burst of enthusiasm for a Democratic candidate who, through clever branding and public relations, appears finally to stand up for the interests of citizens rather than corporations. Act II is the flurry of euphoria and excitement. Act III begins with befuddled confusion and gnawing disappointment, humiliating appeals to the elected official to correct “mistakes,” and pleading with the officeholder to return to his or her true self. Act IV is the thunder and lightning scene. Liberals strut across the stage in faux moral outrage, delivering empty threats of vengeance. And then there is Act V. This act is the most pathetic. It is as much farce as tragedy. Liberals—frightened back into submission by the lunatic fringe of the Republican Party or the call to be practical—begin the drama all over again.

We are now in Act IV, the one where the liberal class postures like the cowardly policemen in “The Pirates of Penzance.” Liberals promise battle. They talk of glory and honor. They vow not to abandon their core liberal values. They rouse themselves, like the terrified policemen who have no intention of fighting the pirates, with the bugle call of “Tarantara!” This scene is the most painful to watch. It is a window into how hollow, vacuous and powerless liberals and liberal institutions including labor, the liberal church, the press, the arts, universities and the Democratic Party have become. They fight for nothing. They stand for nothing. And at a moment when we desperately need citizens and institutions willing to stand up against corporate forces for the core liberal values, values that make a democracy possible, we get the ridiculous chatter and noise of the liberal class.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/where_liberals_go_to_feel_good_20110124/

I'm with Bartcop on this one when he states "Hedges has certainly nailed the core problem Democrats have: They're not willing to fight - not for ANYTHING.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Agree with everything but Act IV.

[WillyT]

2. HUGE K & R !!!

But beware... the PPT rides tonight.

:D

:hi:

[quaker bill]

3. Liberals have been occasionally defined

as those "who won't even take their own side in a fight".

[bluestate10]

10. I have to admit.

That if I got into a knife fight with a gang of republicans the last democrat that I would want at my back is a liberal, I would cover their back until death, but doubt about whether mine would be covered would be prominent in my mind. Liberals have admirable end goals, but the methods of gaining those goals are frequently wasted by a failure to recognize that even small progress toward a goal is better than no progress or a step backward.

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[bluestate10]

11. I would not call liberals dumb-asses, but I do feel that their efforts and

emotions are often counterproductive to gaining their goals.

[TheWraith]

5. The problem lies in people projecting all the expectations they've ever had onto Obama.

Having a Democrat in the White House makes people suddenly forget that there are two other branches of government, which are technically the ones responsible for making laws, not just approving them. Some people really really wanted an ultra-liberal version of George W. Bush, someone who would run the country for us and only us, do everything unilaterally, and ignore that pesky small-d democratic process.

[niceypoo]

6. Wow you have it so wrong

What we wanted was someone willing to undo the damage Bush did. we didnt get that person

[bluestate10]

12. You're wrong.

President Obama is methodically dismantling Bush policy. Some of the left decry what they view as a continuation of two wars, without understanding that how this nation exits the G W Bush started wars determines how we will be viewed for decades. We live in a dangerous world, there are people out there do not care whether one is liberal, conservative or moderate, they would kill every one of us without caring one lick about what we are as human beings.

A challenge a progressive that thinks we are wasting time in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen to go find Bin Laden and try to reason with him. That progressive need have their life affairs in order.

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[DeSwiss]

8. K&R

"I won't be held to some abstract ideal." ~Barack Obama


- Says it all......

[bluestate10]

9. The treatise is harsh, but it does touch on my problem with liberals.

Liberals get riled up and want to bound skyscrapers, when they realize that is not possible, they become resentful and hurt the very causes they claim the cherish. The 2010 midterms are a perfect example, liberals that I know stayed home. Some liberals in my state even toyed with voting for a conservative republican candidate to get rid of a moderate democratic governor, somehow those liberals reasoned that they could get rid of someone that displeased them and elect a liberal in four years, the damage that would have been done in the intervening four years escaped their reasoning. Questioning the Left's rationale gets one labeled a blue dog, corporatist, or worst pseudo republican. Deep rooted democrats sometime question the left because they understand that the democratic party is the nation's one rational hope.

[Hello_Kitty]

15. So you're blaming the 2010 elections on liberals?

Funny, I thought it was because all those young Obama supporters and independents didn't show up.

[upi402]

14. Both parties fight for corporations against workers

it's where the money is.
Too many Democrats and ALL Repukes. It's hard when you've seen thru it for too long. Frustrating and unnecessary.