Liberals in Limbo?

This is a response to Charles Blow's column in today's NY Times, Liberals in Limbo.


There is no left in the United States. If you compare today's government with the Democratic administrations of the 60's and 70's, where do the Clinton and Obama Administrations stand by comparison? Center-right. There is only that and the extreme right. The true left withered in the face of the unrelenting propaganda that began during the Reagan years, rose in volume with the Gingrich Congress and became a positively Orwellian drop down the rabbit hole during the Bush-Cheney nightmare.


I mean really. Where was the Tea Party when Bush shoved the Patriot Act down everyone's throats, bloated the deficit by astronomic proportions and increased the size of the federal government more than any president in history?

The imaginary left is blamed for everything and enough get pulled along by the nose-ring because if nonsense is yelled at them enough it becomes truth.

Now we have the likes of Sarah Palin talking from the other side of the looking glass and Glenn Beck catering to people's fears.

And people listen.

Liberals just never got the hang of Republican style propaganda and have, for all intents and purposes, ceased to exist in the public square. There's a couple true libs left in the Democratic Party, but the great ones, like Paul Wellstone and Ted Kennedy are gone forever.

Calling Obama a socialist is very amusing to socialists... who no one bothers to talk to.

America today lacks vision and imagination and is wrapped up in conservative hyperbole and magical thinking. It's all the fault of Obama, teachers and illegal immigrants. In the meantime, those who destroyed the economy are busy counting their ill gotten gains.

A testimony to the politics of distraction.

I just hope this inexorable drag to the right doesn't take us off a cliff.