LIBERALS: We Are Such Losers

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Liberals yearn to believe in post-ideological blank slates -- and get disappointed every time. Will we ever learn?

http://www.salon.com/2014/10/26/thom...e_such_losers/

The moral of this story is not directed at Democratic politicians; it is meant for us, the liberal rank and file. We still “yearn to believe,” as Perlstein says. There is something about the Carter / Obama personality that appeals to us in a deep, unspoken way, and that has led Democrats to fall for a whole string of passionless centrists: John Kerry, Al Gore, Michael Dukakis, Gary Hart and Bill Clinton. Each time, Democratic voters are enchanted by a kind of intellectual idealism that (we are told) is unmoored from ideology. We persuade ourselves that the answer to the savagery of the right—the way to trump the naked class aggression of the One Percent—is to say farewell to our own tradition and get past politics and ideology altogether. And so we focus on the person of the well-meaning, hyper-intelligent leader. We are so high-minded, we think. We are so scientific.



We are such losers.

[wu_shizzle]

He lost me at "Obama = Passionless Centrist".

I'm sure he loves Elizabeth Warren.

But this is from the same guy who wrote "What's Wrong With Kansas" and thought a bunch of Republicans in name only were actually Conservatives.

[shocka khan]

Quick shizzle, what's the difference between Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren? Both are populists and like to pull outrageous stunts to get their name in the news.

The only difference I can see is that Ted Cruz cost us $24 billion when he shut the government down, but otherwise, put 'em in a sack, shake 'em up and watch them fall out at the same time.