the dems are no opposition party
Frankly, I don't really remember a time when the Republicans were a minority party in the Legislature, but the Democrats are proving to suck at the task of testing Republican extremism. Read about it at The Gadflyer, and at The Nation .
I try to remind myself that things weren't all so great in the Clinton years, and that Clinton himself was mightily flawed, and might have to bear some responsibility for the turn to the right that we seem destined to travel at least for the foreseeable future, but it is fricking hard to keep a balanced view of all this.
Adorno's and Horkheimer's lessons about liberalism's inevitable seduction by fascism seems to be playing itself out with a vengeance: the combination of the most powerful culture and military industries in the world have hypnotized the American electorate. The Right-wing understood how to be modern -- through commodity fetishism AND militarism -- it seems that La Haye's Left Behind series is like one long product placement for Hummers -- and that there is no juggernaut more powerful in this puritanical nation than the combination of apocalyptic violence and large gas guzzling vehicles.
The Left is really being Left behind, especially when it proves itself so spinelessly ready to compromise with the Republicans on appellate court judges who worship corporate power and scorn anyone who dares to challenge it.
I try to remind myself that things weren't all so great in the Clinton years, and that Clinton himself was mightily flawed, and might have to bear some responsibility for the turn to the right that we seem destined to travel at least for the foreseeable future, but it is fricking hard to keep a balanced view of all this.
Adorno's and Horkheimer's lessons about liberalism's inevitable seduction by fascism seems to be playing itself out with a vengeance: the combination of the most powerful culture and military industries in the world have hypnotized the American electorate. The Right-wing understood how to be modern -- through commodity fetishism AND militarism -- it seems that La Haye's Left Behind series is like one long product placement for Hummers -- and that there is no juggernaut more powerful in this puritanical nation than the combination of apocalyptic violence and large gas guzzling vehicles.
The Left is really being Left behind, especially when it proves itself so spinelessly ready to compromise with the Republicans on appellate court judges who worship corporate power and scorn anyone who dares to challenge it.
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