Reply #6: Finally.... this just may be it.

[FredStembottom]

I have been writing on and off at DU for 4 years that the actions (and inactions) of our D.C Dems cannot be adequately explained by concepts like "spinelessness" and "electoral politics".

To my mind the utter lack of normal, human responses to the vast government criminality, the deflating of the Bill of Rights, the bizarre un-willingness to embrace sure-win Democratic solutions during elections........ this truly abnormal stifling of the urge to shout "fire!" in a (political)theater that actually is on fire...... this has, in my mind, slowly revealed the outlines of something unseen and unspoken that is having a profound effect on the actions of our elected Dems.

Of course, being a truck driver in Minnesota, I freely admitted that I was in no position to know what was inside this shadowy void in the hearts of so many Democrats. My best guess (and just a guess) was that the mere fact of the anthrax attacks having gone unsolved left every Dem to sit and quietly fear, well, everyone and anyone. And to become self-censoring based on each person's own private speculations about what motivated the attacker to attack; and what might cause this still-free individual to attack again. (I say private speculations because they simply can't be said out loud without appearing looney - which has the effect of making these fears darker and stronger).

But like the "black box" exercise we did in chemistry in 9th grade (wherein you divine the nature of several objects inside a sealed cardboard box from tilting and shaking it only) our D.C. Dems have have indirectly indicated - largely through what they refuse to do - that some extra little something that we truck drivers in Minnesota know nothing about has a profound, daily effect on everything they do.

Last time I wrote about this I ended by wondering if I would ever get to finally hear the astounding reason(s) for our official Dems' quite un-natural behavior during this part of our history - since only very large and unpleasant reasons seem adequate to suppress an entire political party so completely.

But a cult within the hallowed halls? That certainly fits the bill!