Negative Liberty - Positive Liberty
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:04 am
Dick Meyer's article posted on the CBS website reminded me of George Orwell's 1984, though Meyer never mentions Orwell or 1984.
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In fact, most Democratic hopes lately have come from their opponents' vices and not their own virtues.
November will be the last time that voters can punish George Bush and I expect they will. I think that, however, is close to the limit of Democratic hopes for the medium-term future. Their progress will be determined by Republican regress.
My hunch is that Democrats will capture House and Senate seats but not the House or Senate. And if they do, the victory will be fleeting and they will do poorly in 2008.
I think if anyone other than Obama or Clinton won the Democratic nomination, the democrats would have lost.As the quotes from Thomas Frank and E.J. Dionne show, a defining impulse or attitude of many Democrats and liberals today is that Americans, because of evil manipulations by Republicans, do not know what is best for them and the party's job is to show them the light.
That is a temperament, and one which is not easily discernible in policy papers and campaign platforms. But voters can smell it a mile away. And lately, they think it stinks.