Greenwald is not the left.

[Savannahmann]

104. So what is the Left?

Apparently Civil Rights is no longer the area of the left. So will we join with the Rethugs in cheering Zimmerman now? After all, Civil Rights aren't exactly our core belief any more.

What is the left now? As far as I can tell, it is power, for the sake of having power. It is winning elections, for the sake of winning them. We don't want to do anything with that power, with those victories. So how do we sell our ideals to the People? You know, the ones we hope to have vote for us next year as we try to take back the house?

Will we campaign on Gay Marriage? On what grounds? Will we be so hypocritical that we claim we must fight for the civil rights of a few, while ignoring the abolishment of the civil rights of the many? We'll get eaten alive by the RW for that one. Will we campaign for National Security? We watched Bush, McCain, and Romney lose on that platform. Perhaps we'll win though, times do change. Of course, we can't exactly tell anyone what we're up to, because that leads to questions we just don't want to answer. So our National Security platform is going to be Trust Us, we're not reading all your emails. We're not listening to every phone call. Not exactly a winning platform IMO.

So what exactly is the left to stand for? We have sold out our belief in Civil Rights. We've just handed that over to the fringe of the RW party. Civil Rights, the topic that nearly half the population thinks is important, and we are washing our hands of it daily. Oh don't worry, if we keep the character assassination up long enough, perhaps a few of them will come back. But every couple weeks, a few more shift to my side, the side that thinks the issue is important.

So what do we as Democrats stand for? What do we on the left stand for? If Civil Rights are no longer the standard under which we gather, then what principle are we to champion? Because from where I sit, we are slitting our own throats, chasing the tired worn out excuses into the fires of self immolation.

Go ahead, cut a line out, and pretend it was all I had to say. It's your normal operating procedure.