Soros and all the socialist heavy hitters are working very, very hard for Obama to win. I think we would all be amazed at the things Soros probably has done to try to help the cause. No, these people want it bad. They have invested a lot in the takeover of the Democratic Party. Plus, they want to build on the ‘06 election results.
This is the very problem that Alinsky-type organizing was intended to fight and the very phenomenon which is always its nemesis. The Bolshies, contrary to their claims, never organize. Their vehicle is the putsch. Just as soon as there’s a real mass movement, they show up to take charge. They let others organize then grab the controls and revise history to prove they led things from the start. And I think there really was a widespread resentment among Democrats over the Iraq war and maybe the economy that produced a mini-”revolutionary situation”, one that could be leveraged to take the leadership of the Democratic Party. Then the extreme left struck, which they historically do in two ways: by controlling the apparatus and control the propaganda machinery. The physical signatures of the hard left are the near continuous meetings; and the manic promulgation and enforcement of a Political Line. The hard left traditionally has two main types of operatives: the apparatchik and the propagandist and they are always in the service of the One. The One might sometimes be called the Locomotive of History, the Great Helmsman, the Dear Leader or Nuestro Commandante, but in essence it’s always the same position. I’m not saying that Obama wants to be a dictator. No, but certain tendencies on the hard left bias themselves toward scenarios where the masses are relegated to audience whose only purpose is to be led by enlightened leader. In other, weaker political cultures, this kind of runaway type of mania proved dangerous (Youtube link) but in America it is likely to cost the hard left yet another chance at electoral success.
If I’m right you’ll be able to observe an undercurrent of smoldering rebellion in the Democratic Party against the Obamaniks. Not against Obama himself in the first instance. Just the guys “trying to take advantage of him” or “riding on his coat-tails”. ‘If only BHO knew then he would set it right,’ so the saying will go. The antipathy will in the first instance be directed at the guys seen to be shutting the doors on old Democrats. Dissing the old timers. Democratic operatives may wake up to find their party changing overnight. That’s why there’s this pushback already. My guess is that it won’t get far in this case. There isn’t enough dry tinder on the ground.
