Leopolds Ghost  (1000+ posts)     | Tue Jul-01-08 07:47 AM Original message |
| Obama scheduled a whole speech to reject and denounce Clark...he & we are officially fringe leftists |
 | Edited on Tue Jul-01-08 08:36 AM by Leopolds Ghost Clark is officially too far to the left to serve in an Obama administration. When a party (GOP) collapses in on itself due to national crisis on its watch, one of TWO types of political realignment always occurs. Obama is merely the instrument of that realignment, its chosen vessel. We are witnessing a "permanent assimilation of the central planks of the center-right opposition platform" realignment election. NOT a "transformational upheaval from below" realignment election. The Dems (Obama/Clinton) have become the party of Reagan and will go up against a Hitlerian, fundamentalist opposition in 2012 after McCain loses. The Overton plan (the one DUers never talk about, it is all around you) worked. As mentioned, there are two types of party realignment. When a transformational upheaval from below is happening, isolating and discrediting the forces in power and all those connected to it, who can't get jobs when it is over. which is one type of realignment. Or merely the fundamental political power of the "bosses" has lost confidence in the nominal party of the right and moves its alliegance to the nominal party of the left, thus permanently securing and enshrining all the gains it made during boom times for the initial junta it supported (e.g. welfare reform.) Totally different sort of realignment. Like when the Repubs absorbed the Dixiecrats, or the Democrats absorbed the Populists & Progressives (thru a process that destroyed American populism) or the Jeffersonian Democrats absorbed the Federalists, their supporters, and their principles. Assimilation into the dominant ("pro-wealth") political discourse. By turning the nominal party of the left into the new nominal party of the right -- the new baseline, going up against a permanent minority opposition that is newly freed to be ever more radical. In Right Wing media circles, this is called "moving the Overton Window". http://www.swordscrossed.org/node/53 http://correntewire.com/the_overton_window_illustrated It is what their entire information warfare apparatus in partnership with the national and global security organizations and the 5 major media corporations is designed to do. (Move the Overton window.) Consolidate its gains under the next "liberal" President, making those gains unassailable, making certain thoughts and words (e.g. Wes Clark's remarks) unspeakable. Sometimes when they're lucky they get a President like Clinton who is openly willing to advance the center-right agenda farther than a Reagan or McCain could have done, not just consolidate the gains of the right in the name of national reconciliation. This process has happened throughout history, witness the creation of the first kingdoms in the Middle East. They started out as elected officials... voted into office by town councils as war chiefs to defend the early cities. They created their status as gods by winning over and aweing the populace with unseen wealth, but also by a steady process of assimilation as opposition forces were co-opted by marrying them into the family and putting THEM in charge of the evil mechanism. Another example is telecom deregulation and spectrum resale and its effects on the discussion of patriotism. Or warrantless wiretapping and other "right-wing populist" limits on civil liberties, which Obama and his wing in Congress enthusiastically supports. (Take mandated payments to private firms for "public good" commodities for another example.) Or the end of affordable public housing, which Obama refuses to defend in DC or New Orleans or Chicago. Or the end of rapid transit construction and the legal prohibition on transit friendly development. You name it. All permanent victories for the right, to be enshrined by the next President. No matter what. You can also expect to see a Reagan Memorial go up on the mall under the next President's blessing. A permanent enshrinement of the "Reagan Democrats" as the victors in what Obama sees as the "pointless and outdated battles of the 60s." Permanent victors in the make-believe culture war designed to shift the "Overton Window" to the right. The Federalists won every policy battle on how to run the nation, even though the Jeffersonian Democrats reduced them to a token minority opposition by latching onto all their planks and rendering a separate, conservative party superfluous. The Repubs will stay in existence to keep pushing the Overton window to the right as a John Birch style opposition, to keep Dems belief in the notion of continual rightward shift screwed to the sticking point. Americans who do not understand what is going on are idiots. If you can't understand the Overton Window as a notional force in organized media manipulation tactics, think of it in terms of a movie like the Matrix... surface change being used as another system of control. The status quo must be preserved and enhanced (returned to the far-right baseline of organized kleptocracy that is the historical taproot of conservative politics and imperial expansionist civilization) at all costs. The super-rich will be fighting this battle to get back to Hindenburg, Jackson, and George III long after we are dead.  |
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That's about it. The Money Party makes it happen. k*r
 | Edited on Tue Jul-01-08 08:35 AM by autorank But this dialectic is very clever. Like swarming bees, the "thought (sic) merchants" descend on Capitol Hill with the dumbest ideas imaginable and they create a hefty weight on the right. There's spectacular air support for these ground troops in the form of the major networks, all of them. They have the "experts" on in a ratio of three or four to one, with the one being a weak sister like Colmes on Fox. Pretty soon we tune in Tweetie to see some action on the left. The whole process distorts the Agneta and realm of possibilities. Then we get the crap stew in the form of media axioms: "let the markets take care of it" - "NAFTA will create jobs" - "we loved around the world" - "no matter how bad it gets, somehow we manage to work it out." It's utterly revolting and Orwellian, in the extreme. It's best to get off of any mainstream media. These folks are a bit too clever by half. Their idiotic, nihilistic belief system serves what - big money. We know what that's about, more money. That's how you get seemingly illogical events like Iraq which ruin the nation, yet can't be stopped. Worse, when the planet faces impending doom, the idiots can't climb out of their trees and get hip. My favorite bull shit axiom is summarized by the phrase "moving to the center." Excuse me, the center is on the left with the 73% who find Bush reprehensible and the majorities who favor ending Iraq in short order, developing a single payer health system, developing industry here instead of shipping it elsewhere, honest financial institutions and markets. That's the CENTER and it's marginalized. I'm a citizen - that's a far better position than any politician, any collection of anti intellectual desperadoes called a think tank, and all the folks who think that winning a rigged game makes them successful. Events will define the next 10 years. For the blind, insincere, the game players - I have a simple message - your day is done, you have lost all control because of your reality denying actions. Move aside. Check this out. The birth of the right wing, well chronicled:
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