The PC version of the Democratic Party

[MichaelHarris]

“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.”
Lenny Bruce

Thinking back upon the recent Democratic National Convention, and to be quite honest my recently locked thread, I noticed something. I noticed a fear in our party to speak frankly, to mention a sitting president by name, to call attention to the lies and distortions by this president and the media. Some in our party choose to be more “politically correct” when dealing with the issues at hand while others continue to speak their minds. The PC version of the Democratic Party that chooses to tone down its anger has this false, Bill Oreilly fed, sense of belonging to mainstream politics when in reality they fall into the trap of “softening” and “splitting” our party.

“Don't take your ire out on my product because you don't like me."
Bill Oreilly, not really understanding the word Boycott

For months now we’ve listened to the various talking heads babble about how the Democratic Party has become a virulent, bomb-throwing group, so much so that the organizers of the DNC decided to tone down the perceived attacks on George Bush and the Republican Party. Has this ‘toned-down’ party platform made its way to the Democratic Underground? Case in point, my recent post suggesting Bill Oreilly did everything in his power to promote the Republican Party platform during his recent interview with Condoleeza Rice except perform an oral act on her. For those unlucky enough to see it they witnessed an Oreilly feeding questions to Ms Rice without his signature interruptions, his condescending attitude, and his trademark “SHUTUP”.

“Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
Abraham Lincoln

Comedy is certainly not new to politics, it has been with us for ages, some of it may be more caustic to others but no less relevant. Is the above Lincoln quote any less true if he had used the word ‘ass’ instead of ‘behind’? Which quote sticks in your mind more?

“The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.” Robert Anson Heinlein

Or,

“Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one?”

It’s certainly true one can go too far with ‘off-color’ commentary when discussing events they are passionate about, Slim Fast certainly thought Whoopi Goldberg went too far. The problem with that course of action is we never heard what she said, we never got to judge for ourselves. When we go to far with our statements it should be the responsibility of our peers to say, “hey that went over the line”, opening the door to intelligent debate concerning the issues. Think about that for a second, when Bob Dylan sings we hang onto his every word, he captured us with that first mumble, just as a comedian catches us with that first obscenity. Censorship should never be taken lightly, individuals should decide, after all isn’t that why DU has an ignore feature? A reply feature? If a post offends you isn’t it better to reply to that post and discuss the offensive nature rather than have some unknown entity, such as a moderator lock the thread?
This, ‘nicer Democrat’ policy troubles me. Its obvious to me that it falls right into the RNC’s plan to split our party, to turn us into moderate Democrats and liberal Democrats, the Fox News plan that constantly told us during the convention that most of the hard-core Democrats we’re against the war and why was Kerry getting so much support? That the party was split by the bomb-throwers and the moderates. Don’t let this happen here at DU, speak your mind, choose YOUR words, be yourself.

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." --Buddha

Michael Harris, getting over his ire at having a post locked. :)