When California Democratic Party mandarins decided after the recall debacle to allow "independents" to vote in the Democratic Presidential Primary, we saw the Party hierarchy decide to essentially extinguish the Party rather than yield their power to the activists who have been so deeply disturbed by the Party's rudderless drift and ideological vacancy.
We have been shafted.
This is of course part of the fundamental poltical realignment that has been going on for some time in this country. California is once again in the lead.
We're finding that party labels are becoming less and less meaningful. Not only will your party hierarchy cheerfully betray the voters, they'll cheerfully betray their own candidates. And they will adopt the positions of their opponents with nary a batted eye.
Bad as the situation is with the California Democratic Party -- and it could hardly be worse, in my estimation -- the Republicans are almost as bad off, with their Movie Stah Gubna. This Movie Stah who has no real grounding in Republican ideals or interests, this Movie Stah who is demonstrably completely ego driven, to the point where Party as such means nothing to him.
We hear all these lofty pronouncements about "the people's will" and whatnot, as if the recall vote was somehow a definitive statement. Well, of course. Those who seek to extinguish our form of government and replace it with a permanent tyranny would call a single election -- the outcome of which they approve -- the final or definitive one.
"The people have spoken. Let no one speak again."
And we're seeing numerous Democrats go along with Republicans and the media in framing the recall that way, and further, in adhering to the premise that power has been shifted -- not just from one governor to another, but fundamentally, basically to prove the supreme power of one class of people -- the Leadership Class, we'll call them -- and the complete powerlessness of everyone else.