The main characteristic visible on DU is denial. It is a denial unbreachable by fact or lists of facts; it is a determination to hold on to a consensus reality where nothing is wrong because the alternative is far too unpleasant. Some understand that Something Is Indeed Wrong and do not have the capacity to deal with it so they hide and smile, hoping it will eventually change for the better on its own. Some forcefully reject the facts because they conflict with a need for a recognizable structure upon which to cling. There is no offering to them an alternate vision of reality or even an improved version of the democratic party. They gleefully fight anyone who dares challenge their denial and celebrate when they "win" against it.
If this in general is the best that Underground democrats have to offer, I want nothing to do with it. I am jaw-droppingly ashamed to look at too much of what I see posted here. There is little to no room for even the possibility of change in spite of continuous splashes in the face of the coldest waters of reality. I am tempted to post a list but those who already know, already know. It is useless. This ship cannot be turned; the corporate-corrupted party will, like the even more corporate-owned republican party, continue to install corporate and neocon interests as we increasingly quickly descend from a surveillance state into a police state, all care of the neocons, plutonomists, and the Bush disaster family. And the democrats-in-name-only who do their exact bidding.
It is embarrassing to hang around in a place where people are making a huge, highly visible effort to tell themselves and others that nothing is wrong, and that anyone who says "look" is branded as alex jones, a teabagger, a freeper, or libertarian. To forcefully challenge actual, verifiable facts. That this even occurs is horrible. The purposeful closing of minds is horrible and bodes great misery for the future as those working to make the future miserable at the upper political levels, continue on their merry way, effectively unchallenged.
And those who mock Chomsky while doing exactly what he warns against...!!!!
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate." ~Noam Chomsky
Really DU? Really America?
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