The Democratic Leadership simply doesn't like it's own Base very much.

[tom_paine]

They finally hammered it into my thick skull, although in truth, this has really been going on pretty much steadily for seven years, I refused to see it. Denial, it can happen to anyone.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1774759

It finally occurred to me to Connect Those Old Dots:

1) Thanks to the realities of Modern Politics, virtually ALL of our Congress and Senate, no matter what their Party, belong to the top 0.1% of the nation, they ALL belong to the top 1%, I would guess. There is no "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" today, and even if it NEVER was like that, certainly there seems to be some much deeper disconnect of the rulers to the people in Imperial Amerika (2001-?) as opposed to the Old American Republic beyond simple money.

Maybe it's that dollars for TV ads are now valued as more effective than dollars spent on phone-bankers and precinct-walkers. Whatever it is, the reasons no longer matters, all that does is the reality of the situation.

2) Because of this disconnect, either economic, spiritually or because national Politicians no longer really need people to "win", just commercials (yes, I know this is hyperbolic, but we are trending quite steeply in that dircetion, relatively-speaking, no?), the Bushie False Reality Bubble woven by their Mighty Wurlitzer, the Democratic Leadership now sees it's Base in nearly the same terms as the Bushies see the Progressive Left.

Does this or does this not explain a lot if one notices that quite often, Pelosi or Reid or whoever from the DLC will speak of the Progressive Left (especially in odd, non-election years) in almost as disparaging terms as the Republics...occasionally straying into O'Reilly territory in their condemnations?

I believe it does.

3) So, Faux "News" and the Legion of Vile Punditry (that's pretty much ALL of them) has convinced the Dems that their Base is the Bad News Bears, and for their political sake, they'd better not start acting like Walter Mattheau..

As always, when the Bushies set a trap, the Democratic Leadership is just so obliging by walking into the Right Uppercut, so to speak, so the Democrats run from spine, principle, but mostly from their own, nose-picking, undersized, dirty, smelly, hippie Base. :sarcasm:

But run they do, into the lowest approval rating in history. Why? Because 74% of Americans have 0% representation. The Bushies have conned the Democratic Leadership, itself perhaps the weakest and most unprincipled in the entire history of The Democratic Party (which is, I am sure, only a coincidence) into thinking a minimum of 65% of Americans (Bush's disapproval rating) and a maximum of 74% of Americans (people who think the nation is on the wrong track) are the Bad News Bears.

This itself is the offshoot of what John Edwards correctly calls "The Two Americas".

Now, DUers, Liberals, Gays and the Progressive Left in general are no more the Bad News Bears in Amerika 2007, than the Liberals, Gays, and Jews were the Bad News Bears in 1937, the last time this Rebranding Propaganda was tried in quite this way.

It's the same load of bullshit, essentially. Written a little less rudely than in 1937 but the same stuff said against VERY OVERLAPPING groups of people.

Another corollary to this revelation: The Bushevik Party-Loyal Sub-Media and Lie Laundry is as much for the Democratic Leadership as it is for the mouth-breathing Freepers and other Right-Wing Authoritarian Followers.

And we have now seen yet another fruit of the Bushies' Propaganda Program (I call it Goebbels v2.0, mamong other things) and the Bushies' Economic Restructuring of the money into "Higher, Tighter, and Righter hands," to quote Poppy Augustus Bush, First Emperor of Amerika (1984-1992).

The Democrats are sickened and disgusted by their own Base. Mission Accomplished, Herr Roverer!