The DLC Still Doesn't Get it...

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And there you have the essential Moore -- a worldview of America as a failed project and an abiding danger to the planet. No wonder they so love Moore abroad: His is a 1960s vision, hardened in the pre-NAFTA plant closings of the 1980s, of a nation hijacked by the suits, the very guys who for decades gave Moore's father a good job at General Motors. It's from this posture that all the Moorean invective flows.

After the end of the dot-com boom, the WTO protests, al Qaeda, and the DLC inspired loss of congress, they are increasingly looking like the muggles of the Democratic Party.

From the last link:

If you are currently short of children, you may not get the reference. J.K. Rowling's three (so far) Harry Potter books camped atop the best-seller lists for most of last year. They tell the story of an England full of magic: wizards, witches, a boarding school packed with wand-wielders in training. But it all exists inside the England we know, the England full of telly-watchers and car-drivers and stuff-grabbers. The England that looks like America, that looks like every place the global culture has now spread. And the people who live in this world, oblivious to all the wizardry around them: They're "Muggles."

The DLC didn't get the issue with globalization, and with the destruction of American security that rampant, unrestrained globalization entails (indeed, they still have a "New Economy" link on their website!)

The DLC doesn't get the outrage that is present amongst ordinary Americans who find out that they haven't been told 1/10 of the truth about 9/11, or the Iraq war, or the ramifications of Bush's domestic policy.

The DLC doesn't get it that the average guy on the left actually respects our military and is deeply concerned about national security (heck we know which class is most represented in the military), and that even their bête noire advocates going after al Qaeda.

It's a good thing these guys are keeping a low profile though, and are arm in arm with the Kucinich folks, because we need muggles as well as wizards for this campaign.