Reply #9: SECURITY! Someone's at the wrong forum. [View All]

[Perry Logan]

The thesis of the thread is that there is no Democratic Party, that there is no significant difference between the parties. This is hardly a novel line of thinking in the world today. I'm sure you've all heard it a million times, from a million different sources.

The idea is pandemic among alienated white-guy types. You hear it from libertarians. You hear it from conspiracy guys. You hear it at StormFront, if you dare to go there. You hear it mostly from extremely alienated people--fine folks, most of them, but staggeringly alienated. For these poor people, there is no help from the Democratic Party.

You can see why the right-controlled corporate media would want to spread this idea as much as possible: it weakens and demoralizes the left, which is what the mainstream media is for. Needless to say, alienated people are easy prey for bummer scenarios like this.

I guess this thread is for Democrats who like to be insulted. We were just too dumb to see we're exactly the same as the Republicans. Hilk! We were fooled. We're sheeple. Silly us!

Other people who don't seem to know are the world's sociologists, historians, journalists, or political scientists. Only the people with a bad case of angst can see through the bullshit.

Besides being right-wing propaganda and an excellent recipe for total despair , the meme is based on an almost total ignorance of the Democratic record, which is, oddly enough, totally different from the Republican record.

In any case, I wonder if this theme--diverting though it may be--is all that appropriate at a Democratic forum. The writers are trying to win converts to their depressive point of view. This nonsense cannot possibly help us.