The Gap

MyDD is - how to say this - a big leftyblog that seems to suck less than most of the big leftyblogs, on initial read.

Readin this piece, on a Brad Carson story in TNR, you can sense the complete confusion this blue stater feels on encountering a (caricatured, cartoonish) view of Red State America. Worth a read, more or less.

The reason I bring it up is because of the referral to the piece, from Oliver Willis (who, two years ago, was a "leftyblog that didn't suck", and who since has degenerated into a cartoon himself):

Simply not reality based. Rejiggering a party on the basis of appealing to these folks is a loser proposition, because it ain't gonna happen.

I respect the religious beliefs of my fellow Americans, but I don't believe there's any way to realistically speak to someone who swears that the rapture is happening next Tuesday and lives like it every day.

Next Tuesday? Well, one never knows.

But is there "really no way" to speak with "them"? Now, Ollie, that's a lousy attitude.

Because if the Democrats - not the Clinton Democrats, mind you, but the party that tried to follow Howard Dean over a cliff eight months ago - want to be relevant to the majority of this nation again, they're going to have to learn a way to communicate with those who believe in some sort of higher moral code. Whether they believe the Rapture is "next Tuesday" or an allegory representing salvation in a world gone horribly wrong or anything in between, we're the majority in this country.

Posted by Mitch at November 15, 2004 04:15 AM | TrackBack