Why do Democrats eat their Young?

As John W. Dean eloquently and scientifically lays out in his book, “Conservatives Without Conscience”, Liberals & Democrats are more critical in their thinking, while those on the Right fall into several categories including Authoritarianism & Submissive and are either leaders or subservient followers.

So this brings me to the recent flack over Obama’s FISA vote. True he gave in to compromising, read: Giving Bush everything he wanted, but let’s be realistic here. He is one of 535 members of Congress, what power if any did he have in stopping it? Not much, so because we are critical, open thinkers, we now feel it our obligation to fire up the grill and cook him on it? The implications of this vote on the overall diminution of the 4th Amendment have potential to be a problem, however it does not warrant the response from the Left it is getting and the apparent disgust many in the Democratic Party now have with Obama. What would his filibustering of this Bill actually have achieved? Not very much.

If we are so outraged by his “inaction” on this one incidence, and correct me if I am wrong, I have never heard Obama say he was a Liberal, while I have heard him say he wants to bring all people & interests together, where is the outrage worthy of tearing apart the Party to give McCain the Presidency over the failure to impeach Bush & Cheney? It is not there, so we think it is justified to destroy ourselves over the FISA Bill because our “Great White Hope” did not have the actual power to do anything currently, however if we all stand together and get him elected in November he will have significant power and “The One True Vote” to rectify that which was wrong? Some in the Democratic Party, are holding Obama’s feet to the fire when it was not even his doing in making this the problem that it is. Let’s be real here, it was Bush & Cheney that subverted the law, not Obama, so whey is Obama more responsible for this misdeed than those that actually did it?

We like to eat out young. And after we do it, we never learn what a bad taste it leaves in our mouths for a very long time. We were not content with how “Liberal” Al Gore was in 2000, so we felt it our obligation to find someone more to our tastes by supporting Nader and now we have suffered almost 8 years of a sour, putrid taste in our mouths because of it and given the situation in Iraq, we will continue to grimace at this taste from many more years to come.

The irony being, we continue to chew of the same rotted corpse because we are “critical thinkers” yet we are blinded by the taste in our mouths to stop us from continuing on the same unpleasant action. Today, Al Gore is the patron saint of the Party and Nader nothing more than a bitter old man, yet we can’t see how we did it to ourselves and want to continue on the same path.

Do you see Republicans eating their own? McCain may be the slight exception, where the Right has begun to splinter and yet somehow we see this as a challenge to us of being able to eat our own better and more thoroughly!

Look at the Republicans when it comes to David Vitter and Larry Craig, who if the Party followed their own stringent standards should have been shamed out long ago, but no the followers do not do it. Why? Because the overall needs of the Republican Party to maintain power, to get their agenda accomplished trump the individual desires & wishes of the Party followers. Who are truly the thinkers and smart people when we look at it critically, which is what we always do? But again we often times, much to our detriment, are blinded by our Ideology much more so than those diametrically opposed to us, whom we reverently claim are nothing more than ideological sheep.

We better wake up, open our eyes and get over the sour taste in our mouths, or this fetid taste we have become accustomed to is bound to last a very long time. There is a time for Ideology and there is a time for Reality, now is a time for Reality to set in and actions to be made accordingly.