The most interesting aspect of the Obama revolution (and it is a revolution) is that his followers are poised to take over the Democratic Party’s organizational apparatus. This is certainly true if Obama is elected, but it is also true if Obama gets above 40% of the vote. The fact is that his supporters are energized and he can direct them to challenge the old guard for control of the Party. And chances are, he will win.

This should be the news. But even more important is the underlying reason why a showman like Obama can do this. Many posts ago I observed that with the decline of the hard left and the invasion of its ideological core by the peripheral forces of sexual pleaders, faddists and utopians its memetic DNA had decayed to the point where an 8th century religion became competitive with its message. Plainly put, neither Obama nor Osama would have much appeal in the left in the days of Lenin, Mao and Borodin. But in today’s Big Top it is not only possible but natural for a man like Barack Obama to take over the party.

I don’t the Democratic party will be rid of the Clintons and BHOs of the world until it recreates a set of rigorous core beliefs. The tatters they have from 1968, which seems the foundational year the movement which is culminating in BHO, then we can only expect one succession of entertainers to follow the other.

This has actually happened in Third World. Eva Person in Argentina, Joseph Estrada in the Philippines — there have been a host of places where leaders are elected purely on celebrity by a National Equirered electorate. It’s slef correcting in the end. Estrada was driven out of office — though by someone no better and possibly worse, but the bug for electing rocxk stars probably ended there.