What Palin’s speech signaled above all is that the Republican Party, despite the odds, has no intention of giving in. Over the course of decades it has been the most consistent and most ruthless representative of the interests of the ruling class. It has no intention of ceding that role to the Democrats, in no small part out of fear that its leading representatives could ultimately face criminal prosecution.
For their part, the Democrats and Obama are—like the media—clearly intimidated by the Republican attacks and unable to mount a reply. They are terrified that a determined attack on the Republican Party and the Bush administration could, despite their best intentions, encourage among working people both popular anger against the capitalist system and unrealistic expectations of change. Such an outcome would cut across the interests of the Democrats’ real constituencies, Wall Street and corporate America.
The media at least are NOT intimidated; they are in cahoots with the GOP in forcing a silver-tongued dipshit on the Democratic Party in order to help the GOP ticket.
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