Reply #98: Because this isn't politics and they are members of a new purity cult.

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I'm not for Hillary either, but the Obama campaign--particularly its operatives on DU--have helped me decide to leave the party as far as it's concerned on the national level. I'm only voting for local Democrats at this point--real people getting real things accomplished. After 20 years of voting loyal Dem, I'm done. This has been the most disgusting and disingenuous campaign in American history and, while the Clintons bear some of the responsibility with dirty politicking, the MSM and the Obama campaign/hysteria have created a new sort of political duplicity altogether: the destruction of politics through branding.

The entire process is hollow, irrelevant, insulting, and a total waste of time.

By the way, DU has become a Obama echo chamber, a wind tunnel. Since they have to policy to discuss (per the orders of the Obama campaign itself as revealed in the Sacramento Bee) only "conversion stories" to sell there is no politics in politics anymore. Politics is now an issue-free zone. And since they're only preaching to the choir, the last thing left to do is curse the Devil. The Devil, mind you, is not McCain (no, the Republicans are now our friends). The Devil is the Old Way and Clinton with her wrinkled skin, her serious face, the fact that she has a history at all--that's her real crime. They pretend it's that they despise "centrism" and "triangulation" but really--their guy being the centrist and triangulator par excellence--it's that they want an empty vessel. Something "new", something "erased."

Kind of like the neoconservative movement in Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, they believe that we need a "clean slate". Slate-cleaning is always a violent angry process. Of course, what makes it psychotic, is that they aren't even targeting the real regime: the neoconservative movement. In fact, they're all about "working with them." What they're really about eradicating is anything that gets in their way of obtaining power, which at the moment is purely Clinton.

Thankfully Obama doesn't really stand for anything. I'm not really afraid of or looking forward to his presidency. It will be as hollow as his campaign. What I am afraid of now is the portion of the Democratic party who have fallen for this mythology. In my opinion, they truly are dangerous as the Bushites because they will fall for anything so long as its properly packaged. I'm not talking about the people who are shrugging their shoulders and voting for Obama, those who "kinda like him", or those African-Americans who are excited about the notion of the first Black president. I'm talking about the hysterical people who are apart of the BAM movement, those who put their hope in Obama as if he were a messiah. The ones who faint. The ones who refuse to admit he makes mistakes. The ones who refuse to notice that he's a politician.