Theories, Theories

There are many theories floating around trying to explain what looks to be the disintegration and even the destruction of the Democratic Party. This post does a good job in implicating the nutroots, and so does this post. But the nutroots don't exist in a vacuum. I still submit the mainstream media, in cahoots with the GOP, much more than the nutroots, played THE major role in damaging the Democratic Party. The nutroots would NOT have joined the Obama bandwagon in the first place were it not for the 24/7 media propaganda pumping this fraud up as the next MLK, JFK, RFK, Lincoln, or Jesus Christ. They came relatively late on the scene.

Sure, the shit got much worse AFTER Iowa and AFTER Edwards was forced out. But how did Edwards GET forced out? Who was responsible? How did Biden, Dodd, and Richardson get marginalized? Who was responsible? Did the bloggers do that? No, it was the media. The bloggers had NOTHING to do with that. It was only after the two weakest general election candidates, Clinton and Obama, were left that the nutroots attacks began. THEN you saw the viciousness of the so-called progressive blogosphere directed towards the Clinton supporters. Lies about the Clintons were being perpetrated, and the worst of all was shitting all over them by helping Obama play the race card.

And why did they do this? Mostly it was a result of the massive propaganda campaign in favor of Obama, and partly it has to do with the relative age and political experience of the so-called left blogosphere. Basically these people are very susceptible to propaganda and few remember the ratfucking of yore against the Democratic Party (e.g., 1972). Some of these idiots pulled on Hillary Clinton exactly what they did to Joe Lieberman back in 2006 and shit all over him because of the Iraq War and pumped up an idiot to run against him. That was the first sign of trouble, when so-called progressives were willing to hound Democrats out of the party because they didn't kowtow to their notion of what a Democrat is. They began to shred to pieces the big tent of the Democratic Party. In 2008, these same fools actually believed the crap Obama was anti-war, but he wasn't. Not at all. But they didn't care what the truth was. What they knew was Clinton was supposedly pro-war, and they were going to work like hell to defeat her. Moreover, the nutroots didn't care the guy didn't appear to stand for a goddamned thing except give little Hallmark platitudes about getting along with the fascistic right. He got away with a lot of shit in all honestly because of his racial background. He was saying things and is STILL saying things nobody else would get away with because of it. He knew that and played it up to the hilt. The danger signs surrounding Obama were there for ANYBODY to see; the nutroots simply refused to see it.

The one thing missing from the analysis is the fact the media are in the tank for McCain. The media also manipulated the Republican voters into selecting McCain, despite many voters' misgivings. The manipulation went on with both sides, although it was MUCH worse with the Democrats.

We also cannot leave out the structural problems with the primary and caucus system which made it VERY easy for the GOP to manipulate. And manipulate they did to benefit somebody they felt would be very easy to beat. Many Republicans may despise McCain, but they were willing to put up with him as their party's standardbearer in hopes they can manipulate him. And perhaps many of them feel as I do McCain would serve just one term anyway and look for a running mate a little more in tune with their own goals.

So did the Obama campaign manipulate the nutroots or did the McCain campaign? Well, both I suppose, but the GOP-leaning media created the manipulation in the first place by force feeding the two candidates on voters to the exclusion of much better candidates (at least on the Democratic Party side).

Finally the party apparatus itself joined in the mess and ultimately forced Hillary Clinton out, just as they had forced John Edwards out when it looked as if he would actually gain traction for Super Tuesday. They wanted to "make history" because the media were pushing that narrative, but more important, they were afraid of offending a key constituency and never mind the constituency would have supported any Democrat regardless.

Yes, the nutroots played and still play a key role in the division of the Democratic Party, but the GOP and the GOP-leaning media laid the groundwork for the division. They will continue to manipulate our elections until we wake the hell up.

We've got a mess, and yes, once Obama is defeated I want the nutroots purged once and for all from the Democratic Party. They were and are either willing or unwitting tools of the GOP/GOP-leaning media propaganda machine.