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The Dowbrigade, whose social life makes Airport Ramada look like
\n Paris Hilton, has been invited to a party tonight. Not exactly a New
\n Year’s Eve party (that would be too much to ask for), but close; a Day-Before-New-Year’s-Eve
\n Party. Actually, it’s not exactly a party, either, but more
\n of a fund-raiser. For Howard Dean.<\/p>\n
This raises a slew of questions regarding propriety, politics and just Can one in clear conscience support a politician one truly believes Does it make sense to give Our problems with Howard Dean are nothing personal. We are sure Howard Dean is not The One who is going to wipe away the subterfuge Make no mistake, we are not whistling wistfully in the wind. The Dowbrigade How will we recognize The One? Probably, it will be like pornography We suspect that The One will not emerge from either of the Major Political Yes, despite the pernicious pessimism rampant in the land today, we The One is going to understand much more than Blogs. The One will have The One is going to ignite political passion in a way this country hasn’t So, adding it all up, we think we will skip tonight’s Dean Gala. The The Dowbrigade, whose social life makes Airport Ramada look like Paris Hilton, has been invited to a party tonight. Not exactly a New Year’s Eve party (that would be too much to ask for), but close; a Day-Before-New-Year’s-Eve Party. Actually, … Continue reading
\n how pathetically desperate for social interaction the Dowbrigade is. Although
\n we have officially
\n endorsed Dean<\/a> in this space, due largely to his spirited
\n criticisms of George Bush and Bush’s manner of going about the nation’s
\n business, we have also repeatedly excoriated
\n him<\/a> for his tepid and uninspired
\n attacks
\n on the
\n underpinnings
\n of presidential power.<\/p>\n
\n doesn’t "get it" and lacks a serious chance of getting elected, just
\n because he is the best of a sorry lot? Is it worth backing a candidate
\n who has closed the door on any substantive change (and perhaps doomed
\n his candidacy to defeat) by agreeing to play by the Major Media and Major
\n Party ground
\n rules which have been silently and surreptitiously imposed on We
\n the People over the past 80 years to insure that the power remains in
\n the hands of a small homogeneous elite largely behind the
\n scenes and off of the political stage? <\/p>\n
\n our money to a campaign which will immediately hand it over to the
\n very Media Conglomerates we believe are sucking the lifeblood from the
\n American
\n political process and keeping the public in the dark about who is really
\n running the Republic, what their Game Plan is, and how they plan
\n to get us all to play along?<\/p>\n
\n he is an honorable man, and would probably be an enjoyable and entertaining
\n dinner companion. But it has become increasingly clear to the Dowbrigade,
\n and seemingly to a number of other bloggers, commentators and political
\n pundits, that he is not The One.<\/p>\n
\n and meaningless rhetoric which have blocked the arteries of our political
\n process and get the blood flowing once again. He is not The One
\n who is going to challenge, and break, the Major Media Monopoly on our
\n collective consciousness. He is not The One capable of igniting
\n an unstoppable brush fire of grassroots actions which are going to truly
\n revolutionize how the political process works in this country.<\/p>\n
\n firmly believes The One is out there somewhere, and his or her moment
\n is swiftly approaching. Our
\n existing political process, honed and evolved in a period of governmental
\n and media encroachment into all areas of public and private life, simply
\n doesn’t work any more, and is incapable of producing leaders of the stature
\n and
\n integrity
\n needed to get us out of this quagmire of disfigured development. The
\n dynamic and the technology to effectuate an authentic revolution in how
\n political
\n decisions are made and implemented don’t need to be invented or brought
\n about. They exist today. The One will be the first public
\n figure to figure out how to catalyze these conditions and start them
\n revolving around his or her vision.<\/p>\n
\n – it’s hard to describe, but you know it when you see it. Or like
\n love – if you have to ask, "Is this the real thing?", it’s not. The Dowbrigade
\n is waiting to be swept off his feet by a political uprising so spontaneous
\n and clear-cut that we are powerless to resist. The Dean people are correct
\n in concluding that the next true political change will be effectuated
\n by the 55% of eligible adult Americans who currently can’t be bothered
\n to vote. The question is, who will be able to get those people off their
\n couches, out of their hazes, away from their comfortable niches and
\n lives and vices, and out into the cold hard light of day to take specific
\n actions? It
\n won’t be Howard Dean. It will be The One.<\/p>\n
\n Parties, simply because they are both so over-burdened by morally bankrupt
\n hacks, ingrained corruption and insidious commitments and compromises. To
\n win the endorsement of either the Democratic or Republican parties as
\n presently constituted in this country a candidate must mortgage his soul
\n so completely that
\n maintaining any kind of righteous credibility with people so
\n desperately desiring a credible leader is simply impossible. Should
\n a leader with the requisite qualities emerge from one of the major parties,
\n he
\n or she would certainly be mercilessly attacked and undermined from within
\n their own party with increasing viciousness the closer they approached
\n their
\n goal. The
\n result would almost certainly be a messy defeat in the nominating process
\n or a messy defeat in the general election, either of which would be used
\n by the enemies of change to delay the inevitable another presidential
\n cycle, at least.<\/p>\n
\n believe The One will inevitably appear some day soon, a Generational
\n Giant, clearly
\n towering
\n above
\n the
\n Political
\n Pig-Me’s
\n currently
\n cluttering
\n the stage. He or she will have an immediate and innate grasp of
\n the situation and the new tools with which it can be turned to OUR advantage.
\n Instead of sucking money out of the Internet and blowing it into Major
\n Media, The One will move assets FROM the traditional political infrastructure
\n TO the internet. The One will embrace Blogs not as docile cash cows to
\n further political ambitions, but as revolutionary tools to communicate,
\n organize and wrest control of our lives and our national destiny from
\n the rich, isolated little pricks who have hijacked it.<\/p>\n
\n the whole Internet thing figured out. The One is going to be a master
\n of Flash Mobs, for example. Amazing, isn’t it, that at this stage of
\n the
\n game
\n the race for the White House consists mainly of "The Men Who Would be
\n President" meeting with 10 or 20 or 50 people in a living room or a Rotary
\n Club or a Pancake House in New Hampshire and Iowa. Imagine what roving
\n Flash Mobs could do to that process. If every time Kerry or Lieberman
\n or Dean arranged a cozy little coffee klatch 100 or 500 or a thousand
\n supporters of The
\n One
\n showed
\n up.
\n Not violently, or aggressively, but silently, solidly, and seemingly
\n impossible to avoid, surrounding, enveloping and absorbing the small
\n crowds attracted
\n by the lesser candidates.<\/p>\n
\n seen in a long time. Observers and pundits long in tooth and short in
\n imagination are going to cry "Unfair!" "Absurd" and "UnAmerican!" Supporters
\n of The One are
\n going to rewrite the rule books on what a political campaign looks like
\n and how it operates.The resulting commotion will bring the system to
\n the border of collapse. But
\n collapse
\n it will not, for our system was designed in sterner times
\n and the vision of our founding fathers goes far beyond what is considered
\n "normal" by the eunuchs and pig-me’s running the game these days<\/p>\n
\n lesser of several evils is, after all, still evil, even if unwittingly
\n so. Instead,
\n we will probably be right here, at our computer, endlessly searching
\n the Internet and Blogosphere for evidence that The One is approaching.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"