The tiger is true to his stripes

Murdoch Media: Y'know, Romney And Stevens Were Right About Those Obama-Voting Parasites

I think the resurgence of and efforts to legitimize these attacks on the beneficiaries of American social democracy are proof of an important point.

True to who they are, the conservatives are not going to give up their conservatism so Republican office-seekers for whom personal or party victory is priority one can succeed in future campaigns.

They are not giving up on their cause.

And they most certainly are not going willingly into that good night of political insignificance by relaxing their grip on the Republican Party.

Instead, they are talking themselves into bigger and more ambitious efforts at the de-democratization of the US political system.

The people having made it plain they want to continue to get and keep “the stuff the government is giving them,” the conservatives with the full support of their plutocrat sponsors are moving toward an ever more obvious strategy of disempowerment of the people.

And they hope they are softening up the American public for that by making – at Christmastime! – Ebenezer Scrooge the public face of the conservative movement and the Republican Party.

Expect further attacks on the 17th Amendment and perhaps the 26^th, and maybe even the 23^rd if they don’t think it too limited in impact to be worth the trouble.

The conservatives, on behalf of the plutes, long ago invented the category of the undeserving poor.

More recently, they have invented the undeserving sick - people like smokers or alcoholics or drug-users who, they loudly complain, don't deserve medical coverage because the health problems arising from their addictions are "their own fault."

And now they are inventing a category of undeserving voters.

It's going to get pretty ugly as they attempt to spell out who, exactly, belongs in that category.

Ugly, but interesting.

Basically, those they want to brand “undeserving voters” will of course turn out to be the most imperiled beneficiaries of American social democracy, whether of workers’ rights, safety net, or earned benefit legislation, who are otherwise most without resource, the complaint being that such people are not too stupid to defend the hand that feeds them and vote Democratic to keep the benefits on which they crucially rely coming.

But the more obvious it becomes what conservatives think and what they aim at the less successfully will continue the Murdoch con job that has convinced tens of millions of whites dependent on those same programs that they are not pinned to the conservative bull's-eye, right along with moochers and leaches of lesser breeds.

The more frank conservatives become the more difficult it will be to conceal from their stupid white Fox fans that they are waging a class war and neither a race war, nor a war on women, nor even a war on unpatriotic, anti-American, communistic, secularistic, socialistic liberals.

And that should cause them to actually begin to lose back to the Democrats some of the whites they have picked up over the decades with their southern strategy and their culture war.

That could be fun to watch, too.

But, oh, that’s not a good reason to allow even further media concentration in the hands of the right.

[Update 12032012 0548 hrs EST.

This could mean the Republican Party, if driven into evident minority and loser status, will not be fixed but will be replaced by a more moderate, centrist party.

Especially if the Democrats take the opportunity of the Republicans' tailspin to move a bit more to the left, opening up more space between themselves and the increasingly marginalized GOP.

Maybe.]