They just don’t get it, at all – from the Washington Post:
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, the “tea party” movement must be honored.
In an effort to replicate the tea party’s success, 170 liberal and civil rights groups are forming a coalition that they hope will match the movement’s political energy and influence. They promise to “counter the tea party narrative” and help the progressive movement find its voice again after 18 months of floundering.
The large-scale attempt at liberal unity, dubbed “One Nation,” will try to revive themes that energized the progressive grassroots two years ago…
First of all, its an incredible thing for the MSM to suddenly come ’round and say that the progressive movement has been “floundering” for 18 months. They aren’t “floundering” – they are doing precisely what they’ve wanted to do. That its unpopular with the people and a complete failure in practice is just a fact of life. This isn’t floundering, its failure.
Outside of that, the left also doesn’t understand that grass roots efforts must rise from the grass roots. No surprise they don’t get it – remember, our President was a “community organizer”. That is liberal-speak for “you’re not smart enough to figure out what you want or need, so I’ll graciously stoop to your level and tell you what to do”. To a complete leftists, there’s just no way to conceptualize a system in which regular folks set the agenda – regular folks don’t have what it takes to do it, in their view.
But, they are gravely threatened by a bunch of knuckle-dragging, toothless hicks in the TEA Party movement. They don’t understand how it came to be. Projecting from their own methods, they figure it simply must be the creation of some nefarious gathering of right wing groups. So, their program of countering the TEA Party is to “duplicate” what they think happened – and so we’ve got “One Nation” (one wag has already suggested that they take as their slogan “one people, one nation, one leader”…but “ein volk, ein Reich, ein fuhrer” has already been used. No doubt to the dismay of our progressive friends).
This will fail as badly as the absurd “Coffee Party” failed – and it has been noted that the WaPo article acts as if the Coffee Party idea never even existed. In the report, this is about the left finally starting to counter the TEA Party…as if they hadn’t gone through a half dozen expedients so far in the attempt to defuse the popular revolution embodied in the TEA Party. The left is alien to America because it doesn’t take in to consideration the fact that Americans run their own lives – or, at least, want very much to, if they can just get the government off their backs.
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