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Edited on Sat Oct-20-07 05:12 AM by PATRICK
This was sort of a young Turks(think Armenian massacre) strategy at first and best evinced by Tony Blair destroying Thatcher and confining the Conservative party. What though in the end has that most successful and unsustainable politics arrived at? The moral corruption of Labor, government abuses, war, fall of Blair. It never worked that way in the US. There was no reaction against the sainted Reagan or much against the tired Bush I. The sides of the triangle crushed Clinton into being GOP lite, making ground breaking concessions on corporations and war and civil rights and the poor- with very little benefit to the party- to put it kindly. Co-option failed and all the good undone and the compromises opened wider to the worst of corporatist abuses including the crushing of the democratic and legal system itself.
If the supposedly hapless other sides of the triangle were played off and held at bay in Britain it cost the soul of the people power party and sacrificed them in the trap it cleverly created for the maintaining of fulcrum power. It is unattainable here and in any event the other sides of triangle can team up. The people power part even with all the rationality and concessions in the world are vulnerable to classic World tyranny, plain and simple lies and violence and protected crime.
The DLC persists in pretending to be a lion tamer that feeds the beast and keeps the circus going, yet they wander in reality in a jungle with wooden rifles, poor skills and a ready supply of people bearers for the tigers to pick off- before touching the Bwana party elites. When the tigers pick off the eternally startled High Dems no lesson is learned.
We are connected in a struggle for the survival of civilization. Where greed and power connect to the cause of truth and human need is conflict- not accommodation. Law and criminality are not similarly victims to a triangle point where power must define their right to exist. They are in eternal conflict. Making the triangle points clever mush enables the people to lose, in pacifying application to be crushed.
In civilization, trade and commerce in the hands of the few and the greedy, goes hand in hand with the exercise of state power in the hands of the those with the most ruthless lust and disdain for the commons. Politicians not surprisingly are those more gifted in compromise than in actual leadership or dedication to duty and truth. Playing games with this fundamental status quo can never work philosophically to create some pragmatist Utopia. People and real populist leaders and those with the talents and dynamism to be servants dedicated to law and truth and human basics are the only- and vulnerable- hope to keep the wheels on the world. Corrupted specialists of the other triangle sides cannot lead, cannot solve or resolve reality into their destructive visions- or lack thereof.
In short two can play at that non-democratic game and when it comes to playing tough and successful, the GOP and the plutocrats always own those ruthless, insane and dedicated cards. Getting the Dems(in highest party power) to abandon their only unique strength(among the people and in service and duty) to play their rigged game is all that the clever strategy is about today. And play it stupidly and repeatedly they do, expending political support like dimes in a slot machine.
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