Democracy for Vancouver

Frank Dwyer over at Huffpo says:

2008 is beginning to look like 1968 to me. I will have more joy in seeing the careers of these treacherous Democrats ended than in voting against the vicious, corrupt, venal, incompetent, deluded, altogether disgusting Republicans. The Republicans are what they are: the Republicans cannot deceive me or break my heart. The Republicans cannot ruin the country, utterly and forever, without the astonishing collusion of these Democrats. Yes, the Republicans can do an almost limitless amount of damage, but they can’t perpetuate the bloody disgrace of their long majority without the acquiescence of their fellow-travelers across the aisle. I think there are many of us who will have the Constitution back, and the honor and integrity of our country, or we will have the liberating, energizing task of founding a new opposition party, one that actually opposes the greed, destruction, arrogance, and ignorance of the failed Republocrat party now in power. I think there are a lot of us.

If the Democrats do lose in 2008, that will surely be the end of the Democratic Party. And that will be a good thing, if they lose by continuing down this moronic path, if they lose because they deserved to lose. Then, out of that rubble, if the nation survives in anything like it’s fundamental, 200-year-old promise and glory, we who care to preserve it will be released to begin again, to oppose the devils of the right and the worse little devils of the unprincipled middle with good, decent, honest, “small-d” democrats, men and women who are liberal–what a wonderful word!, real new leaders who are progressives.

I know everyone I talk with these days is pretty much fed up with all of them. The political parties just seem to be a way the people in power keep us divided and deluded. I’ve heard all the arguments about how the Dems are still better in all kinds of ways. But if they are unable to accomplish any of their stated goals, does the fact that they have good intentions (if you believe them) matter?

Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better.