it almost hurts to say this...

but good god the Democrats need help. I have been sifting through the news, and am on my way over to The Note, which I used to read and then just sort of forgot about--so many website, so little time. But whatever happened to the quaint little notion that somehow left of center progressives were somehow smarter than their right of center barbarian ancestors who were somehow still around. I've been back and forth over this ground with a backhoe (ten points to the person who knows who said that): "Any truly intelligent, conscious, aware (substitute any 'post'modern description of, well, anything here) would understand and realize that what I've suggested is how we should go about it."
People who say things like this also usually start off by saying, "On this particular issue, I feel," or worse, "I feel that xy and z are very bad and we should change xy and z because I feel so very bad about it."
Many people have commented on the near univeral preference for the Left to engage the heart, because the hearts of men are much easier to sway than their minds--and if you sway the heart enough, the mind forgets and becomes comfortable, at ease, and then the mind ceases to care. That's when you end up with people who can't have a discussion/argument without resorting to using their personal experience as evidence and worse, those whose own personal experience is orders of magnitude higher in value than yours and some silly economist named Friedrick Hayek or Ludwig von Mises or Karl Menger, or some silly historian named Thuycicides, or that we all know that Plato was the greatest philosopher ever--never mind that Plato's philosophy has lead to more tyranny and oppression, and that maybe, perhaps, we ought to investigate Aristotle.
The worst part about all this is that you, the person who prides themselves on expanding their knowledge base, on seeking out new sites and new information, boldly going where no band has ever gone before, honestly want to either solve the problem or just talk about it. Talk about it. It's almost, almost impossible to have an honest, open discussion with someone who is a progressive, an intellectual, a 'post'modern. Why? Because they have already made their mind up--to them, there is nothing else that needs to be talked about it--except of course, for all the talking that they'll do while they shitfiddle away civilization.
I have an idea for a television show that would illustrate this point perfectly. Imagine the cut scene, and the TV guy's voice comes on saying:

The drama. The excitement. The action.

(big explosions and raucous noise)

Tonight on CrapTV:

Red Stater versus Blue Stater

Who can actually run a 7-11 for a full year

Oh sure, sure, I know, there are plenty of ultra rich, super mega mega dauntingly rich progoberals wandering the planet--but I'd still make the challenge. Put George Soros in charge of a 7-11 and put any self-avowed conservative/libertarian and let's just see what happens. I'll even grant you that once in a while, a progoberal* might even win, but it won't happen very often. And of course, the reactifists*, well, I'd never visit a 7-11 run by a reactifist. Never.

A Progoberal is a progressive liberal, someone who may yet still be slapped in the face by reality.

A reactifist is a progressive liberal who got slapped in the face by reality and turned the other cheek.