mstinkIn recent weeks two writers have asked the big question.
From David Michael Green:
Once there was a political party in America – the one that did the New Deal and the Great Society – that stood up a bit for the middle class and the poor. But Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have led the Democrats down a different path. Now the party stands for a slightly weaker version of the GOP’s plutocracy protection service. And, it seems, for getting its face bitch-slapped bright red at every possible juncture. Both aspects of the New Democrats are a puzzle, but particularly the latter. What sort of psychology of self-loathing explains how a Clinton or an Obama can be so passive, even when getting handed their heads by the most scurrilous of the creeps on the political landscape, soulless creatures who could be destroyed with the slightest show of self-defense, let alone a wee assertion of political courage?
From James Kunstler:
The bigger mystery in all this is: what happened to reasonable, rational, educated people of purpose in this country to drive them into such burrow of cowardice that they can't speak the truth, or act decisively, or even defend themselves against such a host of vicious morons in a time of [crisis]?
