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From Bill Clinton’s recent advice for the Democratic party:
Democrats “need a clear national message, and they have to do this without one big advantage the Republicans have, which is they won’t have a theological message that basically paints the other guy as evil,” he said.
This appears to offer the Democrats a way of feeling victimized. It offers them a false high ground from which to denounce Republicans, i.e. by saying, “we’re too good to accuse you of being evil, the way you evilly do to us.” What an absurd position!
Surely this is not good advice for the Left. It is yet another iteration of the failed Kerry strategy of inventing endless attacks against Bush, rather than coming up with his own ways of making this country better.
I’m not sure what facts Clinton could adduce to support his statement. There’s been quite a lot of folks on the Left calling Bush a nazi and saying he’s like Hitler; there’s been little equivalent of that on the Right re: Kerry.
To conclude: It appears to me that Clinton’s advice to the Left is incorrect on the facts; repeats some of the errors that lost them this election; and offers them a false feeling of victimization which is not in their own best interests.
Leading up to the election, I didn’t feel like blogging about pop culture—things were too serious. Now that the election’s over, it will be fun to blog on pop culture as well as politics. So here’s a start. The STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE TV series is having a great season. If you like STAR TREK and haven’t seen this show for a while, don’t miss it.
