The Stab in the Back!

From the Holy City of Strongsville:

I’d be lying if I said I was surprised, but it’s still sad [and more than a little creepy] to see the Democrats fighting valiantly to avoid learning any meaningful lesson from their electoral evisceration on November 2nd.

Their howls of insensate rage about “stolen” elections, conspiratorial religious minorities, etc. harken back to another group of losers.

Like Moveon.org, a certain segment of German World War I war veterans thought that the path to victory had been wide open to them. When the icy fingers of reality intruded upon this delusion, they searched frantically for any alternative to the truth. And like the Michael Moores of today, they found it in the “stab in the back”. Rather than concede that Germany’s war effort had been characterized by logistical mismanagement and political tone deafness, they searched for scapegoats. Just as the far left of the Democratic Party has fixed its sights on the “religious right” as the source of its humiliation, those German war veterans singled out a poorly understood religious minority as their insidious, all pervasive and alien bete noir. Attributing to this minority vast powers of manipulation, they blamed all of their disappointments and degradations upon it, vowing revenge.

Similarly, like the German veterans, the Democratic ultra-left is casting about for “traitors” who “stole” the election from them. The politicians who having seen the handwriting on the wall, ended the war before Allied troops marched through Berlin, were labeled the “November criminals”. The AirAmerica wing of the Democratic Party has its own roster of “November criminals”, from Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, to the “rightwing media”.

Will the mainstream of the Democratic Party allow itself to be bewitched by this insanely malicious self-induced delusion? Who knows? Based on the chorus of “more leeches!” coming from the Moveon.org types, it doesn’t look good.

Michael Moore doesn’t particularly resemble any well-known Austrian war heroes, but he is the spitting image of a certain WWI flying ace, gourmand, and clotheshorse. That shouldn’t however stop him from entitling his “Farenheit 911” sequel, “My Struggle”….