The Summer Of Fear And Loathing: It Ain't 1968, Anymore, Baby

Is Cindy Sheehan going to San Francisco? Yes, but unfortunately for Democrats anti-war activist and former Dem poster Mother, Cindy Sheehan is going to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Today Sheehan writes:

The Democrats are the party of slavery and were the party that started every war in the 20th century, except the other Bush debacle. The Federal Reserve, permanent federal income taxes, not one but two World Wars, Japanese concentration camps, and not one but two atom bombs dropped on the innocent citizens of Japan -- all brought to us via the Democrats.

Don't tell me the Democrats are our "saviors" because I am not buying it -- especially after they bought more caskets and more devastating pain when they financed and co-facilitated more of President Bush's abysmal occupation. The Democrats also are allowing a meltdown of our republic by allowing the evils of the executive branch to continue unrestrained by their silent complicity.

Meanwhile, over the DailyKos in With Us Or Against Us, Democrat activist Marcos Moulitsas posts:

There has lately been an alarming rise in diaries and comments that seek to impugn (without evidence) the motives of those they disagree with on various issues.

Yes, there's the impeachment stuff, but this nasty rhetoric is also rampant in the primary war diaries.

This points to a serious breakdown not just on civility, but in the ability of people to properly debate various issues. As such, it presents a serious threat to the integrity of this site.

On the Left, there's as yet no sign of any candle lit marches, or the sounds of Kumbaya coming from a softly strummed folk guitar in the hands of an earthly dressed, long haired freely sexed maiden. You might get an old playback of Pat Benetar shouting Hit Me With Your Best Shot scumbag, but should that really be surprising post 80's and 90's, as free sex as an outlet gave way to the fear of STD's and a long out of power Left took up the screams of Bushitler, the Imperial President must Fall, if not die, instead of Give Peace A Chance?

The Summer of Love isn't even a distant memory for most young radical liberals today. And they aren't about Love. This is about Power, Baby! And if it means they have to tear the Democrat establishment down in the gaining of it, well that's how it goes. What remains to be seen is if the adults can keep order at the table they invited so many children to, their generous dollars in hand as campaign contributions, or if the rising tide of fear and loathing the Democrat establishment stirred up to support it will now sweep it under, leaving it damaged, a weakened party far more marginalized than they were post McGovern. At least then you could hook up with some hippie chick without fear for your manly bits, should you utter something overly provocative in the face of her particular brand of militant feminism.

And, man! that's what really sucks about all this!

Comments

[Purple Avenger]

I'm going to enjoy this a lot. Might even have to break out all my old tie-dye stuff and sandals and go to a moonbat rally.

[Fred Beloit]

Perhaps if the Kosites stopped doing some of the Lib things they love to do, like leveling charges that have been proven untrue, such as those described below and which have been pointed out here early and often, they might enhance civil discourse. From the Anchoress blog.:------------- "Yesterday I opened the NY Times Magazine (crossword puzzles!) and read two new entries into the incredibly tired, lame and played out lefty “George Bush is stupid, incurious and he lost in 2000″ mythology, here (”It all seems so improbable. George Bush? A bookworm?“) and here (”Needless to say I was a bit stunned. A letter from President Bush’s brain?…I was also a bit stunned because the letter was funny.” Oh, look, conservatives are actually almost like real human people!) and here (”I’ve rarely voted for a winner in my political life, with the exception of Al Gore.”) and I just thought. This adolescent carping is so old, it’s so predictable, so incurious and the mythology so demonstrably false, and yet these folks never tire of it - day after day they say the same thing - year after year…and they still think it’s witty. And apparently they still giggle. I just find it boring - but then I’m no sophisticate, and I wouldn’t have hired Katie Couric, either, so what do I know?"

[Rich Casebolt]

Of course, as history shows ... when it comes to liberating people, REAL arms reductions, and reducing tensions in a sustainable manner, the real peace song is not "Kumbiyah" ...

... it is "Yippie-Ky-Ay-A"!