DINOcracyJournal.Org

Via Buzzflash, who really ought to know better:

Hoping to emulate conservative success, Dem young guns launch journal of ideas. DemocracyJournal.org debuts. 6/21

MoDo has it exactly right today.

Mr. Cherny and his fellow editor, Kenneth Baer, former Gore speechwriters, introduced their journal, Democracy — it's sort of like Foreign Affairs without the glitz — at a panel at the National Press Club with Francis Fukuyama and Bill Kristol. Mr. Fukuyama's big idea was The End of History. But a couple of little things like religion and nationalist ideology, not to mention history, got in the way.

Mr. Kristol was a key backer of the neocon push to knock out Saddam and create a model democracy in the Middle East. As he pointed out ruefully yesterday, big ideas cannot survive "contact with politicians, unbruised," and are sometimes "applied inappropriately." That was no doubt a veiled shot at Donald Rumsfeld, whom Mr. Kristol faults for the slide in Iraq.

"And since my relations with conservatives these days are so bad — with Rumsfeld and immigration and other things — I'd just as soon hang out with you guys," the Weekly Standard editor told the room of liberals, bloggers and journalists. "You're less mean."

You'd think that incorrectly predicting history is over would get you banished from the intelligentsia forever, but Mr. Fukuyama proffered another big idea, warning that the pendulum was not making its customary swing left because "values" voters were clutching it.

"There's a guy I buy my barbecue from who says, 'I think we're in a class war and my class is losing,' " he shared. (Is this The End of Barbecue?) In Europe, he said, such brisket purveyors would be voting for the left, but in America, "the values issues have been much more prominent, and so people who for economic reasons ought to be voting on the left are held still in the Republican column precisely because they don't trust the left on all the issues having to deal with family, and identity, and this sort of thing."

People on the left voting Reptilican? People on the left against social, economic, and scientific progress but pro-fundamentalism and pro-nationalism. Mr. Fukuyama seems to be a bit politically dyslexic, unable to tell his left from his right. He's either that, or a bald-faced liar.

With input from the likes of William Kristol and Francis Fukyama, this is more likely a source of disinformation and discord for progressives everywhere.

Of course, this also lets The New York Pravda continue with its own chaos disinformation campaign for the weak minded.

"Democrats who wished their nominee would take a firm stand in 2004 now oppose his call for a fixed date for the withdrawal of troops." Not unless they're supporters of the DLC. Not unless they're George Soros- who isn't really a Democrat at all, only a major shareholder of the DINOcrats.

Lords of Chaos, you win again.