The roar of outrage going through the Donk blogosphere over the Donk’s capitulation on FISA is kind of interesting. By now, you’d think that these people would wake up to the reality that the Democrats are simply the more craven and cowardly wing of the USEmpire, and offer no deliverance from our continuing decay. Now that the consensus opinion in Washington is that constitutional checks, balances and civil liberties are purely discretionary, the republic is officially dead, and you all just got a whiff of its rotting corpse.
UPDATE:
But I see no alternative to documenting what’s going on and trying to leverage the political system, rewarding those who stand up and punishing those who promise to do the right thing and then go back on their word. If you’ve got a better idea, please share it. (We talked a lot about “bringing down the state” 40 years ago and it wasn’t all that successful, so we probably need to think twice about whether that’s going to work any better this time.) If all you want to do is sit around and carp about how there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties, and complain that this is all pollyanna nonsense because the Big Boyz are in it together, have at it. But nobody’s listening. It’s white noise.”
– Digby
Thanks Digs, my irony meter needed a good torture test. Now that I know it has survived being told “no one is listening” by a major representative of the Donk blogosphere, which has basically failed to accomplish anything despite the most ferocious keyboard bashing, I feel safe using it in even the harshest rhetorical environment. IOZ says it best:
“As for me, I’m proud to be a whiner, and it is the nature of the whiner to be proudly ineffectual. On the other hand, to claim status as an activist while failing in virtually every political endeavor is to put on the clown hat and become purposefully, almost majestically ridiculous.”
