An Alienated Rural Democrat's plea from 2004

[Eleanors38]

10. Great post, then and now...

A lot of simplistic reasoning used by Democrats and MSM has -- Again -- been hammered down. One reporter this a.m. on the Diane Rehm Show actually said that journalists must get to know the country outside the urban bubble (or Beltway, or Coasts, or the Academy, or whatever divides journalists from the rest of the country). She seemed genuinely shaken, and quite aware, now, of how out of touch the media (and for that matter, the Democratic Party) is. You have to shut up and listen when over 40,000,000 people speak.

Yes, the outcome was not a big surprise; it's been a long time coming. All this talk about the changing demographics were the wave of the future? Crap. Two-thirds of the electorate is white. That's two-to-one. The politics of mass extinction will not save a passive, corporate Party bent on serving the one percent if only they are reassured that Geneva Convention rules will be followed when not in power, which is most of the time. And all that the talk about no labels or third ways WILL NOT MOVE a people which no one speaks to except the spittle-flying far-right.

If you don't define yourself someone else will.