I have basically stayed out of this little brouhaha. I know and like some of the people involved on a personal level, have less than no knowledge about some of the others, and have NO idea why any of the participants think that they are “mad” at any of the others. I have not even read most of the meta posts. Really .
However, here is my own broader take on what is happening here.
When in a highly stressful situation, a group of people who have formed an alliance based on the desire to survive tend to bond very well. Very tightly. There is an effective outside enemy to be fought, and most negative emotions (At least as soon as the losers among the group have been eliminated…YOU know, the ones that truly threaten the success of the mission.) are directed at the enemy.
But once the enemy is defeated…which at least appears to be the case right now on any number of levels (More on that below.)…the normal flow of negative emotions that runs almost every human being on the planet demands to be redirected and suddenly the warts and body odors of the person next to you in the foxhole start to seem highly offensive.
So it goes.
Now you may take issue with the idea that the war against the right is over…I do not believe this to be the case, myself…but the general run of information currently flowing through the media is WAY over the top as far as what we could have expected as little as one year ago.
Things of which we could only dream then are now front page news.
Cheney is essentially on the edge of being on trial for treason. None dare use the word (yet), but there it is, hanging on the back of the tongue of all the asshole pundits while they watch Libby try to squirm out of his noose as he swings in the DC wind.
The Dems won in November. The vote was a referendum on Iraq, and the bad guys lost.
Big.
They will lose again in 2008. The Dems could not fuck this one up even if they ran a CORPSE. Or Small K kerry, whichever one was less attractive to the average voter.
Global warming is now an accepted “common wisdom” meme. Hell even DRUDGE has been forced to get neutral behind it.
Short of an attempt at a true coup that would assuredly meet with failure and/or a backdoor attempt at a nuke strike on Iran (Either by attack dog Israel or the 3 or 4 remaining high ranking members of the armed forces who are still living in some kind of Dr. Strangelove/Henry Kissinger dream) the Neos are through for the moment, and most of the money interests who backed them are scrambling around to find the least threatening set of candidates who show the most promise of winning on 2008 so that big money can continue its own “business as usual” program and get even MORE filthy rich.
So it goes.
And suddenly…fights break out in the foxholes of the presumptive winners.
“She SMELLS BAD!!!”
“He’s a fucking liar!!!”
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
What a SURPRISE!!!
All over some REALLY bad beer.
C’mon folks.
Back to the trenches.
The war’s not even HALF over yet.
Don’t fool yourself.
We fight shapeshifters here.
BET on it.
Stop all of this.
They’re laughing at you.
AG
