<<Being as I think the country needs what the left offers, and needs nothing of the warmongering crap the right offers, I see this as a plus. But it's done as a part of the oligarchy's ongoing propaganda blitz to enlist the yokels, rubes, hicks and fundies to ignore their own interests and support the oligarchy. as always.>>
If the left weren't so cowardly and began to defend themselves for what they are, instead of running away from it, the yokels, rubes, hicks and fundies would have a different model to look up to. Put the blame where it belongs - - not on the yokels, etc., not on the RW, but on the so-called left, and its lack of balls.
If they gave it a real effort and the yokels-rube-hick-fundie gang decided to stick with what they have, then America would deserve to suffer under the Republicans but at least (a) the liberals could look in the mirror for once without flinching and (b) the American people would have had a genuine chance to make a real choice presented to them.
In a democracy, people get the kind of government they deserve. Liberals whine that the Republicans stole two elections. That's true, but I still blame the libs. The Republicans can only steal an election when the margins are small. The aim of the liberals has always been to steal votes from the centre and eke out a narrow victory. They should be moving the centre to the left, far enough to ensure large, theft-proof majorities. But to do that would require some courage and some frank speaking. They shouldn't be afraid to call their opponents tools of the rich, they shouldn't be afraid to engage in overt class warfare, because that's what the rich do all the time, 24/7, only they do it under the table, and they shouldn't be afraid to call the military what it is, a bunch of ignorant, murdering thugs, because as long as the military enjoys a quasi-sacred status, an untouchable status, the War Party will always have a huge advantage - - they will always be able to wrap themselves in the flag and claim that their opponents do not "support the troops" or are "the party of retreat and defeat," etc. It's an unbreakable formula because even if the Democrats win, they have to wrap themselves in the same flag and embrace the same militarism in order to do so.