Democrats: Is this you?

Posted on February 6, 2004 in Campaign 2004

Just look at the comments attached to this blog entry and this one. Or come by #political at Undernet IRC. You can hear the logic of the day, which is “We’ve got to choose a candidate who the Republicans will vote for.” Never mind that it means a total sellout of what we believe in. Never mind that our choice will continue the war in Iraq, reintroduce the Patriot Act, and leave the country in a crippling deficit. We have to choose someone who Republicans will like.

Or to put it this way: the conservative wing of the Democratic Party wants us to sacrifice our principles so they can have the Dubya with a Human Face that they want so badly. If it is Anybody But Bush, then, we’ve got a bargaining chip on the Left: you want to beat Bush? Then give us Dean or Clark or Kucinich. No Kerry, no Edwards. No Vichy Democrats.

This article by Michael Kinsley of Slate is right on:

The process the Democrats are putting themselves through resembles John Maynard Keynes’ famous description of the stock market. The game isn’t to figure out which stocks are most likely to do well, but to figure out which stocks other investors think are most likely to do well. And these other investors are thinking of other investors and so on. Keynes thought this helped to explain the volatility of stock price. Your judgment about other people’s judgment, let alone other people’s judgment about other people’s judgment, is inherently less certain and more subject to breezes of false or true insight and information than your judgment about your own judgment.

Vote for the man you believe in, not the Republican in Democrat’s clothing.