he starts writing.
i can't imagine i'm the first cat to come along here at the D'Kos with the AMAZING REVELATION that, gasp, the state of the "leftist internets" is not as perhaps as strong as it could be (although i'm more and more impressed with the minds out there every day.) i can't be the first daily kos diarist to point out that, no matter how long bloggers are going to hold on to their supposed "outsider" status, we are now absolutely all part and parcel with this so-called "Main Stream Media" we pretend to dislike so much (i may not have name recognition, but when i have nearly the same level of access to you as most of your elected representatives, well... we've hit the big time, baby, whether we want to or not.)
i honestly can't be the first blogger to come along and talk about how he really, really, really
REALLY
hates the word "snark" and all the retarded connotations that go along with it.
i can't be the first person to put these things together, and even if i was, it would seem that the shiny "new" 'concern troll' meme would be a good way to explain me away.
but i'm not a concern troll. i'm just way more Left than you.
this, by the way, is a good thing.
see, as i'm basically nothing more than an anarchist, i would usually not have a whole lot to say on a political blog like this one. often i am disheartened to see us capitulate to the same base tactics employed by the right-wing nightmare machine, but that's the game we play; it's always been a dirty business, and will always be as such, so long as we have something around called "politics" to keep us from our natural state of ripping each other apart, limb from limb.
my presence here, my desire to in some way "help" the "cause", could be likened to the canary in the coal mine; i wouldn't bother to drop my useless corpse in a place like this unless i was sincerely, severely, completely
pissed
off.
it's likely that you, as a moderate liberal, will disagree with just about everything that i, as an idealistically dillusional liberal, might say. and i think that's probably a good thing for the health of this country and its democracy, if you find that sort of thing important (i don't, really, but i'm not afraid to let you worry about it, and in fact take care of it for me).
but in another sense, its important for me to be here, if only for this reason:
it's very key for these conservative vampires, these wolves in wolves' clothing, to understand that you, the average dkos reader and writer, is pretty fucking far from the extremist wing of your ideology. trust me; i'm there.
they'll try to accuse you of being extremists with your OUTRAGEOUSLY moderate and fairly staid battle plans for this country.
but they're absolutely wrong, and i'll help show you that they are.
game, you see, recognizes game.
i don't have the slightest hope, belief, or notion that i will be taken seriously with my fairly insane beliefs.
on the same token, all of the other bastards out there who pay lip service to compromise while capitulating to the crazier notions of existential reality, well, they don't get to pretend that they're not as bat-shit insane as i am.
game, you understand, recognizes game.
so that's it. that's why i'm here. i'm representing your crazy side, in order to make certain that they understand you HAVE a crazy side. it's going to be difficult to slog through the next few years, since the other side has almost completely given in to their crazies.
i am absolutely satisfied that you won't let that happen to "us".
game recognizes game. and all of you, the right and useful citizens of that nutty place that i like to call "reality" shouldn't have to traffic in our gonzo bullshit.
but as long as you're going to have to, let me do what i can to help...