wrath of loki

"But have the Democrats learned anything from this? In my opinion, very little. They are now scurrying around frantically trying to come up with "moral values," and religious connections, accepting the mainstream media's nonsense the pseudo-religionists' claim that they were the tipping point which provided the margin of victory elevating G. W. Bush to the White House for another four years."
There is more to the underbelly of this beast. The whole of the left is struggling to ameliorate their failure to attract moneyed interests. It is never about the issues nor the voters, but about attracting money and media attention. This is happening at the local levels within the environmental in which i have spend considerable time and energy. They have reviewed and looked at the statistics and financial records and long term projections for the economy and so forth, and have abandoned their real constituency in order to attract financial support from the right. why??

Age i think is critical. The old vanguard, myself included, who held onto the idealism of deep ecological revelations, has been moved from the positions of power within the movements by demographics. Short sighted younger leadership evaluates their overall financial interests in relation to the shrinking opportunities to save habitats. In order to attract the money they think they can attract(a big supposition that seems rather misguided) they are adapting the strategies of the right. Unfortunately, it is the strategies themselves that are bogus and morally bankrupt; strategies that not only will not gain advantages(since they are predicated on cannibalistic enterprises greedly focussed on immediate individual benefits) but will fail to hold onto the constituency that they are assuming they would not lose in the first place. Their thinking is fundamentally flawed, in terms of their overall environmental analysis, and the short term benefits of literally dressing up to meet the hopes of bringing in capital will be seriously detrimental to the ecosystems they intend to protect. Polling as a means of assigning investments of time and energy towards acquiring economic resources is not synonymous with understanding that the environment cannot be assigned economic value if it is intended to be protected.

We are truly at an abyss when the left moves right thinking it can move the right left. It will not happen. What will happen is that the left will be the right's own left and that is a far different thing than being the left. And in all of this the planet will suffer tremendously, the starving and impoverishment of people will lead to the destruction of habitats, in turn destroying any remaining quality in the air and water. It is moving closer and closer to being over.