If they're "progressive", I want to start the "Digressive Party"

I just read (and participated in) a grotesque display of all that is wrong with the Progressive Left movement, in small, and the United States, at large, over at Daily Kos. A posting by some Ohio politician announced that he was spending the next 4 nights living on the street, with only the clothes on his back, to get a feel for the plight of the homeless. Okay, first thing to pop into your head? "A stunt, for sure". Mine too. But the second thing to pop into my head was : "Christ, anyone willing to spend even one night on the street without a dime in their pocket (in Ohio!), deserves enough respect from me that I'll at least keep my fat mouth shut about it".

The "progressive" community? America's sympathetic voice?

I'd say about 70% of these fuckwads tore the guy a new asshole from tip-top to tip-toe. In their rarefied opinion, he's just an opportunist, a media-whore, or an outright liar. Or every other comment began with something like "if you REALLY wanted to help the homeless..."

The truth being, of course, that most of these jerk-offs have likely never known hunger or desperation. Probably the most traumatic thing to happen to any of them in recent memory was gas hitting $3 / gal. And that's our poor, misguided, schizophrenic America for you : even their most generous and selfless segment can be counted on to eat its own young.

You know, it wasn't until this moment that I fully understood how much the Right and Left are like Men and Women. Think about it : the Right are a bunch of loud-mouthed, conniving, self-serving bastards, which is what Men are, which is what Men are *supposed* to be, if you take Darwin at his word. And the Left? A bunch of pussies, man, there's no better way to explain it. Utopian and catty, naive and bitchy, consumed with the welfare of others but not wholly willing to get their hands dirty accomplishing it.

The Left will NEVER outright win, will NEVER retain power for very long, because the Right has something they don't : solidarity, or at least the appearance of it. On the Right, if you don't agree with your party leaders, you maneuver yourself into a position to usurp them, you have a "Night of Long Knives", so you can be twice as fucked up as them, or maybe just try to undo the damage they may have caused because they're twice as fucked up as you could ever be.

On the Left, you rent a stage and a bullhorn and you yell at the world about how fucked up your party leaders are. News flash : guilty by association, assholes. The rest of the world has little respect for anyone who tears down their leaders in public. It smacks of disloyalty and regardless of your point of view, being disloyal isn't something many people would find appealing. Most find it repellant. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, I'm just saying...

I dunno, I'm rambling. But a terrible feeling is starting to creep up on me : I'll never be able to agree philosophically with anything the Right has to offer, but the insipid naiveté of the Left makes me want to burn crosses on people's lawns. I'm just a man without a moral compass, I guess.

So if this is the Apocalypse®, we have about a thousand years of this shit to yet endure, eh? Oy.