sic semper Donklephants

There are many corners of the cosidetto "progressive blogosphere" where the Democratic party's latest act of complicity in, and support for, the steady increase in government control of our lives is being met with utter bafflement and confusion.

This is not one of those aforementioned corners.

I still remember that this is the Democratic Party that "ended welfare as we know it," imposed NAFTA, promulgated "don't ask, don't tell," and, oh yeah, that's right, overwhelmingly gave George Bush the political cover he needed to invade a country that did nothing to harm us. And they'd do it again, too.

There will be much sound and fury in the blogoverse as to whether the Ds are just the same as the Rs, or merely "the lesser evil." It is easy to lose the forest for the trees from a US-centric point of view. One thing that helps me keep perspective is that the Democratic Party would be a centre-right bloc in any nation in Europe, with the Republicans somewhere out in Front National or Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs territory.

(And before anybody asks, I'd vote Dem to keep Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney or Jean-Marie Le fucking Pen from winning California's electoral votes, but not with any real passion.)