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That said, I do believe there are some progressives who are struggling with the same pathologies, most notably the “inside job” culties. They’re the leftie equivalent of pseudo-conservatives in many ways.

“He believes himself to be living in a world where he is spied upon, plotted against, betrayed and very likely destined for total ruin. He feels that his liberties have been arbitrarily and outrageously invaded. He is opposed to almost everything that has happened in American politics in the past twenty years. He hates the very thought of [George W. Bush].”

It’s like looking in a mirror to see contemporary liberals exhibit an outlook on the current situation comparable to the freaked-out pseudoconservatives of an earlier time. Like them, we think we are being spied upon by a government with no respect for the Constitution. Like them, we think our liberties have been outrageously invaded. Like them, we are opposed to almost everything that has happened in American politics in the past twenty years (the Reagan revolution and its degenerate culmination in the likes of Bush and DeLay). And we have to spit the words “George W. Bush” in order to get them out, just like the right-wingers of an earlier day could not bring themselves to say the name “Franklin Roosevelt.”

I suppose I could comfort myself by recalling that the “liberties” pseudoconservatives felt were being invaded included things like the “liberty” to discriminate against people of whom they disapproved (such as blacks) and the “liberty” to exploit workers for their own benefit; while the liberties we progressives worry about are of a different order entirely.

I suppose. But I wonder if some future Hofstadter will write the same paragraph about current progressives.

Draining the swamp is the first step toward a solution. You have to think in frame of mind like Thomas Edison..by every failure you take another step closer to success. We know what we have now is a cesspool of incompetence, corruption and distain for the will of the American people, so any direction away for that offers at a minimum a ray of hope and the possibility for progression.

If you think that those ideas won’t take root, you are more of an optomist than I am. The messengers from K street will be Democrats, most likely previous members of the House and Senate, with large checks and advice - you can only retain your seat with a large war chest.

Folks, we will winn the House and might win the Senate. And it won’t count for SHIT if we don’t hold the Dems feet to the fire from DAY ONE. They work for us - all Americans - not the party machine and not Wall Street and not the elite rich.

My message of congratulation, which I am writing for next month will include the message that all politicians (in my book) are guilty until proven innocent. He or She has ONE term to prove my conviction wrong and that’s the only way to retain that seat.