Bloggage and Dunnage

The world changed for me last week when I heard Rush Limbaugh state, "There were no WMDs and the war in Iraq has been a disaster". It was a brief flash of honesty in an otherwise magnificently maintained iron curtain of self-deception based on the group think of the social conservative movement.

It should be noted that I preface the "conservative movement" with "social". The current conservative movement which mutated out of the Gingrich conservative movement in the early 90s is made up primarily of economic liberals. The Reaganites were economic conservatives and social moderates. These conservatives are just self-righteous, paternalistic, angry white males. More on this topic in my next blog entry.

The current [social] conservative movement in this country died about 18 months ago. It hasn't pronounced itself yet. The cause of death was clearly self-deception. The power of a given group of people [over the rest of us] is inversely proportional to their talent at self-deception. In politics, the bellwether for power is fundraising and the conservative fundraising effort has virtually collapsed.

As the Republican Party deceives itself regarding the war in Iraq, the condition of health care, the quality of republican presidential candidates, and the ability of conservatives to provide leadership in any meaningful way, the movement crumbles from within.

Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard declared today on Fox News Sunday that the Democratic Party is in trouble. He went on to say that congress is doing nothing and the presidential candidates are saying nothing of value. Hey Bill! Have you every seen the fourth quarter of a football game when the winning team is far ahead and has the ball? (For those of you who are not football fans, they do nothing but run the clock.)

Democrats did not take back congress because they had a better plan for the country. They have no plan at all. Lucky for them, the conservatives spend all their time demonizing the liberal movement. Fortunately for the democrats, there is no liberal movement. Behold the power of self-deception!

The original Bloggage.org was originally dedicated to open source, Freednode, and the opinions of Robert (Lilo) Levin. I loved my brother and had a great deal of respect for him. But, our opinions on most subjects differred greatly.

Therefore, the new Bloggage.org will be drastically different. In what way, I have no idea!