If I am hearing Simon Rosenberg right (and he is worth listening to), a nasty civil war is brewing within the Democratic Party, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton – the party’s presumptive 2008 nominee – needs to avoid getting caught in the middle of it.Fineman makes good points about the aggressiveness of the "blog" Democrats versus the Beltway Democrats. (Think Upstarts and Establishment Dems.) What he does not seem to grasp is that the Blog Dems have achieved such importance because the Democrat Party has effectively left a power vacuum for them after the Clinton fiasco and the near destruction of the Democrat party. The rabid "blog" Democrats - extremists all - are, in Fineman's words, "activists." But are they?
The true activists in the Democrat party have always been those annointed by the MSM. No one else. No George Soros. No shady 527 organizations. No unseen hands of mischief or malice not previously handpicked by the American Mainstream Media Party has ever been heard before. In a previous article chronicling the fall of the American Mainstream Media Party, Fineman cites the "Blogger Nation" for the downfall of CBS. He was referring to the conservative blogs that pushed the story. And then he said something interesting in that article: "It was not accident that the birth [of the AMMP American Mainstream Media Party] coincided with an identity crisis in the Democratic Party."
In other words, the MSM gained control of the Democrat Party in the 196o's - a time of a power vacuum in the party that was transfixed by its own dilemma. The Democrat Party was synonymous with Racism. The Southern States that had fought integration for 100 years dominated a party that was stagnant and corrupt, dying one of those Tennessee Williams slow deaths by chronic corruption and lassitude. Enter the first use of the National Guard to integrate schools in the south by a Northern Republican president into a school in Arkansas. The Democrat Party collapsed. The northeastern established MSM stepped into the breach. It is not now surprising that the "Blogosophere" is wrestling for control of the Democrat party from the control of American Mainstream Media Party (AMMP.) It simultaneously marks the stagnation of the Democrat Party and the precipitious decline of the MSM that the Democrat Party is now, once again, up for grabs.
What we are witnessing is A) the slowfall collapse of the coalition of the American Mainstream Media Party and the Democrat Party and the rush from the hard left to fill the vacuum while at the same time there is B) a publicity push by the MSM to give credence to the hard left in order to maintain the continued leftward drift of the Democrat party, the leftward drift started by the MSM in the first place, a leftward drift that even Democrat loyalists do not accept. And, more importantly, do not vote for in large numbers. The hope, one supposes, is that by comparison the social liberals in the MSM will actually look good.
The problem is that there simply isn't a cogent center for the Democrat party, battered as they are from the Left MSM and the harder Left George Soros groups. It's a case of Social Liberalism versus Socialism. Neither seems like a winning formulas for a mainstream American political party.
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the fight between caring about people and... caring about people is not nearly as nasty as the fight on the right between freedom-haters (the extreme religious right) and people-haters (stingy libertarians). good luck, republicans. you'll need it, 'cause many people are wising up quick to republican b.s. like limbaugh's.
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