So when you play the fear-card of "Palin is coming!", I'd say that's certainly been the DLC's rhetoric. It's such a R0ve-Bush-Cheney tactic, too, one that WeThePeople have rejected since 2006 (along with the color system terr0rist alerts in the weeks leading up to an election and OsamaBinLaden tapes that surface the weekend before our elections). Imagine that: You're no better than R0ve & the GOP.
It's important to remember that the DLC got into power by refusing to defend the word 'liberal' when RonaldReagan, LeeAtwater and Karl R0ve were demonizing the word. Instead of educating the public about liberalism , about how liberals were responsible for creating the largest middle class in the history of the world, a strong regulatory system that provided clean water systems & nutritious affordable food for everyone, a public education system that led the world, etc., the DLC convinced Americans that liberals could never win another election. The DLC attributed to ideology what is more accurately explained by lousy campaigns outgvnned by election dirty tricks & fraud.
When informed of the issues, most Americans agree with liberal policies. Neither they nor I would characterize themselves as far-anything or extreme, but mainstream.
For example, nobody likes the idea of abortion, but most Americans don't want the government involved if they find themselves in the predicament of an unwanted pregnancy. But if you frame it as, "You like to k!ll babies?!?! ?!?!", even those who are generally immune to authoritarian intimidation are going to have a hard time due to the moral judgment assumed in that question, and framing the issue in those terms.
If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid & relentless in your sales pitch & tactics. It's not that Bush & R0ve were geniuses & knew something that nobody else knew. Bush & R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politicians & the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans: If you keep at it, escalate your attacks, don't take 'no' for an answer and never back away, you will wear the opposition down.
But Obama & Democrats in power today only use these tactics on Democratic voters.
Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination) and the oldest, most experienced politicians in US history (including the R0ve machine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politicians (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep impeaching BushCheney off the table, have us still reelecting them & not marching on Washington with torches and pitchforks?
Obama & Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.
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