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In reply to the discussion: Has the Left Surrendered? - BillMoyers.com [View all]stupidicus
(2,570 posts)there's nothing new here, it's just a case of something being published that many of us have been saying for better than a decade now.
It's the natural result of the millions that mistook the Clinton bubble-induced success as victories for "leftness", when in reality it was just the launching pad for the widespread and unwitting acceptance of the good cop/bad cop, divide and conquer, DLC/Third Way BS behind that rightward movement.
The tireless BHO, etc, cheerleaders here on DU exemplify and personify the end product of the inculcation, and as such, lab rats to be used for cure testing.
Personally I don't think there is a cure for them any more than I do for the rightwingnuts as long as we are on the "politics as usual" path, because this has become the new "normal". I've long thought and argued that only the human-misery inducing, existential threat of global warming that will require "socialistic" solutions can break the current paradigm. That's the ashes from which the lefty Phoenix will rise and take flight again, sometime in the coming decades.