Burnt Orange Report

My Thoughts Exactly

By Karl-Thomas Musselman

I have been thinking about this in almost the exact sense and am glad someone put into better words than I have attempted to. And though I don't have any personal grudges against any of the other writers here on the BOR (though I'm sure it has seemed that way the past week or two, my apologies guys) this post over at DailyKos hits the nail on the (ditto)head.

...To put it in more colorful language, in conjunction with the corporate media, the Political Opinion Complex has starved the Democratic electorate of campaign information to the point where they will eat up anything put in front of them. Whether that meal is Clark, Dean, or Kerry, the public is simply far too hungry to choose.

Sadly, this state of affairs has turned the Democratic electorate into dittoheads. We will vote however the POC tells us to vote. We jump at a resume when we are told to jump, we join a movement when we are told to join, we will accept a southern strategy when we are told to accept, and we believe in electability when we are told to believe. We will sell-out unions if we are told it will help us win. We will go to war if we think it will appeal in the south. We will abandon urban renewal if we are told it won't play in Middle America. We will stamp out volunteer movements if we are told they won't lead to corporate donations. Although it primarily exists outside and above the party, The Political Opinion Complex wields significantly more control over the Democratic Party than any institution supposedly "inside" of it....

Momentum is back in a big way, and it's because Democrats have become dittoheads to the center-right POC.

That's all from me now. I'm off to Arizona tomorrow afternoon to continue the good fight for Governor Doctor Dean because I don't believe in letting Iowans and New Hampshirites making up my mind for me. I'll try to blog from Phoenix live when I get the chance. I leave you with a late night spur of the momment quote from yours truly.

If you don't stand for something, then you stand for nothing. If you stand for nothing, then you don't stand a chance.