Now there is clear evidence that there is no real change coming, at least not what they expected and fantasized about. Now there is clear evidence that Obama, far from being superhuman, is just another corrupt, lying, sniveling politician that would sell his soul, their souls, and the souls of their mothers in order to obtain power.

How to deal with that? Why, with massive rationalizations of course.

A LOT of people are sorting out their cognitive dissonance the wrong way and rather than accepting that gutting the Bill of Rights is anathema and inexcusable, they are rationalizing it into being a good thing(tm). -- tempus

Yes they are doing that but all that proves is that they don't know or refuse to acknowledge what the problem is in the first place. They are so focused on whether a democrat is good or bad, thinking that it will make a difference, that they have blinded themselves to seeing and focusing their efforts on the root cause of our problems. People can rationalize all they like. People can (and will) go back and forth forever on "should I or shouldn't I vote for this democrat" and it won't matter one wit. It won't matter because they are trying to bring about change by working within the rules of a gamed system that cannot be defeated by the normal means that the gamed system itself supplies.

We are sitting at a crossroads where people can either take the red pill and understand/accept the truth and try to bring about change themselves or, they can take the blue pill and continue on believing that, even in the gamed system they are participating in, candidate X is better than candidate y and therefore will bring about change and fight for them when the time comes.

It's red pill or blue pill. Most people have chosen the blue pill.

If you didn't sound so very proud of yourself for being the oh so rare and wise one for downing the red pill--I might not have such a strong ick response.

Yeah ok. I do understand that is rather common for people to feel a bit ill when confronted with a truth they are not quite ready to accept. Cognitive dissonance is a bitch ain't it?

"All you have to do is acccept the truth and try to create change yourself?" Come on, that's the most simplistic and trite advice I've heard in awhile.

That would be trite, yes. But then I don't think that is precisely what I said and I am sure it is not what I meant to relay. Let me try one more time. The more and better democrats crowd are like drug addicts that cannot or will not admit they are addicted. What they need is to experience a fundamental paradigm shift so as to be able to see the situation for what it is. Until they do, they cannot possibly hope to change anything. Their belief in their current "plan" is akin to a smack addict believing he can get clean by changing the needles he uses to shoot up with. "Let's just change out the politicians, then it'll all be good." Right?

Either/or is simply not acceptable for those active in politics. It's a constant and difficult interplay between both. -- nicole p

No. You don't get it. Understanding and accepting this particular "either/or" is a necessary prerequisite to being able to act in ways that will bring about fundamental change in the long term. That does not mean you have to completely forgo those avenues within the system you think make a point but it does mean that you cannot use them as your primary method of fighting. Either people accept that the system is gamed and realize that working within that system is not a legitimate plan for bringing about fundamental change -- or they don't and they continue to wonder why they get screwed at every turn.

Getting that "ick" feeling again?

The fauxgressives are getting exactly what they demanded when they allied themselves with the Village media elite in its orgy of Hillary-hate. The unity pony was just a rebranding of the same kind of corrupt 'bipartisanship' represented by the Pelosis, Broders, Hoyers and Hiatts.

-- paul_lukasiak

Paul are you actually trying to suggest that Hillary Clinton is somehow more pure and not an establishment candidate? You are not really trying to suggest such a thing are you?

I am just not willing to hold my nose when I enter the polling booth and pick someone who disrespects and abuses his constituents.

A principled person. Rare these days.

I fear for the future of the country. Things will not get better until we get a better class of politician and the Democratic party is not currently providing it. -- memoryalpha

How do you see us going about getting a better class of politicians? Do you think we will be able to elect enough of them in 2010? Enough all at once so that they can fundamentally change the system by doing things like driving out the corporate money/influence and establishing some type of run-off style election system (for starters)? Do you believe that is possible? I am sincerely asking.