Sunday, June 17, 2007

A Minor(?) Quibble with Digby

[ludicrously late update: it turns out Digby is a "she" - oops]

Digby has a great post up at Hullaballoo about the conflict being exposed between the Republicans' [culturally] populist, blog- and talk-radio-fueled base, and their real, actual base, which is millionaires, Wall Street and Big Business.

No wonder Bush is sweating bullets. Aside from the small matter of turning the country into a rogue super power, his lasting political legacy may be overseeing his party's decline to a minority faction of racists and malcontents because they foolishly empowered a bunch of shrieking wingnut gasbags to speak for them in the national media --- and now they can't control them. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.


Yep, I'm nodding my head and enjoying the spectacle right there with him - but after going back and re-reading this:

This is essentially a made up crisis by people like Lou Dobbs and talk radio show gasbags to exploit the insecurities of certain Americans by creating the illusion that the fact they are losing ground economically is caused as much by illegal immigrants doing day labor as the total abandonment of the manufacturing base by big business.


I thought, I was with you all the way through, Digby, but this just seems obtuse. Here's more how I see it:

"This is essentially a made up crisis by people like Lou Dobbs and talk radio show gasbags to exploit the insecurities of certain Americans by creating the illusion that the fact they are losing ground economically is caused as much by illegal immigrants doing day labor as the total abandonment of Labor by the Democrats."

This is the lesson that Democrat's haven't quite learned yet, in spite of taking back Congress in the '06 elections - successful politics is, at the core, not about what you stand for; it is about who you stand with.

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