Like her, by education, resume, etc., I should be totally down with the current system, and I’m doing quite well economically speaking. But there are all sorts of problems with what WE as a society are doing, sustainably, economically, MORALLY. And the ESTABLISHMENT only has ANSWERS that mean “more of the same”, i.e., empowering the establishment. How convenient.

The TEA PARTY isn’t really a THING, but IT (it’s also not an IT, of course, which is both a PROBLEM and OPPORTUNITY) is at least a reflection of the recognition that things are badly off the rails. Unfortunately, that meme is fully associated with anti-Sexual-Revolution “damn the hippies, back to Father Knows Best!” social conservatism and is hence easily discredited/dismissed by the establishment, but that’s not at all the main front of the battle right now.

Plenty of us didn’t vote for Mitt because of this sort of stuff. And this is why folks end up voting for the Angles and O’Donnells of the world.

“Moderate” Dems are perfectly happy to play along with utterly destroying the GOP. It’s far better to be the minority wing of a majority party than the minority wing of one of two equal parties, after all. The Dems think they are on the verge of accomplishing their goal of turning the nation into California, Illinois, New York. Never mind that these places are economic disasters with fleeing populations–the Dems have complete chokeholds on power there.

The GOP (or some alternative–I don’t much care) needs some “nice” sounding plans to dismantle DC power. Given the jackals and vipers in the MSM these days, it will be tricky to do that. But it will be done soon enough regardless, because current the current government is–what’s the word lefties love so much?–unsustainable.

I never made it into the Ivy elite by the way (not that I wanted to, in that sense); I didn’t have the family money or social class to do so. I turned down Princeton’s and MIT’s ‘offers’ because of money concerns (gotta love that equality of opportunity thang we got goin’ here), and attended a small liberal-arts college that is now defunct.

On a brighter note, Carl, check out the new album by Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite. Real American music. Makes me want to pull my old harmonica out of the drawer.

Carl, I do agree yet, somehow, the notion that this statement is emanating from a leading PoMoCon is an indication that we are further down the road than I thought.

‘And most shocking, perhaps, we get this on a near daily basis without any substantial push-back from moderates. The many decently moderate Democrats you meet…nice people, but truth is, especially about the older and more educated ones, they are grossly abdicating their duty to their party’s and their nation’s future health.’

‘I cannot repeat that point enough.’

And, while we may disagree on the question of a ‘moderate’ Democrat that fact is that these people are ALL suffering, in one degree or another, to a perverse and debilitating spiritual disease.