The idea of Democratic Party unity - in Minnesota and nationwide – has passed beyond “charade” and “myth” into outright fraud.
No, I”m not talking about the primary battle; while the Dems’ three-way battle for the Gubernatorial nod is a sign of a deep split in the party, it is simply how things are done under our current caucus/convention/primary system.
No – even after the primaries are done and Mark Dayton once again proves that the DFL endorsement is in fact the kiss of death, and the party supposedly “unites” behind the former Senator, all that “unity” talk will be a complete fraud. The DFL – indeed, Democrats nationwide – will be misleading the people by saying they are united.
Why?
Because I”m not one of them. Not anymore.
I was a Democrat, and at least on economic policy a fairly liberal one, until I was in my early twenties. I am a former Liberal Democrat.
And even though the only Democrats I’ve voted for in the past 25 years were Randy Kelly and Norm Coleman, and I”ve been a conservative activist for fifteen years and a conservative talk show host on and (mostly) off for 24 years, now, the fact that the Democratic party at any level say that they’re united without me, Mitch Berg, former Democrat, is proof that they are lying to the people about being “unified”.
Even though I believe absolutely none of the things that the DFL is currently about. Zero.
It doesn’t matter. As a former Democrat, I am what matters.
Absurd?
Not a whole lot worse than the Minnesota left’s current, desperate meme – that the GOP is split because Tom Horner – tax hiking, big-government insider with a client list of groups that will be Happy To Pay For A Better Minnesota (for them) – is really a Republican.
F’rinstance, Dave Mindeman at mnpACT, who comments about the MNGOP’s complaint against Horner and the laughable PiPress poll that’s got the DFL so exercised:
Anyway, I rambled through this series of events to make a very long winded point. Nowhere in that back and forth did you see a single Democrat mentioned as any part of this. Yet, it is the Democrats who gain the most traction in the poll.
In the same way that I”m “getting traction” with Scarlett Johannson by continually repeating how very much her destiny that I am. But I digress.
In this battle of (nit)wits [Oh, Dave Mindeman - you did not just do that - Ed.], all the players are Republicans or “former” Republicans…Horner is, himself, a former Republican Party analyst.
Yes, Dave Min(adequateanalyst)deman(glerofcontext) – in exactly the same way that I’m a “former” Democrat.
And don’t you dare argue with me, Dave. It’s for the good of party unity.
Cross-posted and comments welcome at Shot In The Dark.
