By now, everybody who frequents the blogs has read or heard about Mark Noonan's recent post at Blogs for Bush in which he appears to threaten anyone who opposes the will of our neocon rulers with physical violence.
DailyKos ran this excerpt from Noonan's post:
As our Sister Toldjah noted earlier, the "indictment" of Tom Delay is entirely bogus - from what I've read, Tom Delay didn't know about the perfectly legal transaction he is accused of conspiring to make. We have now left entirely the field of normal political conflict and entered a twilight world where fantasy is presented as fact and the only standard of conduct is "will it work?". This is not the actions of a political Party engaged in seeking a majority - it is the action of a Party determined to destroy its opponents entirely and sieze all power for itself...it is, in short, the stuff from which civil wars are made...
I really do urge our Democrats to step back from the edge - you are sitting in a lake of gasoline and you are playing with fire. We on our side will only put up with so much before we start to pay back with usury what we have received. If you can't defeat Tom Delay in the electoral field, then you will simply have to accept him as Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives - and you'd better start accepting political reality before things get really bad.
Even though these are only the pronouncements of a blogger, rather than a political figure who exercises real authority, they nevertheless represent a watershed in the devolution of neoconism, and the evolution of the movement dedicated to breaking its grip on the political process.
Besides betraying an inability to spell some of the trickier words in our language such as "seize," it shows, more clearly than has been revealed before, neoconism as a form of mental illness. This is illustrated by the very trait Noonan attempts to hang on the opposition -- a refusal to accept reality; in this case the reality is a criminal indictment brought on the basis of evidence.
The author's precarious grip on reality is also evident in his tone, which combines self-pity with the enraged hostility of dark, menacing threats. Determining how a member of a political movement that currently has a monopoly on political power might come to feel sorry for himself, and why any challenge of that authority is perceived as life-threatening and worthy of a violent response, is best left to the pathologist rather than a political analyst.
And any psychiatrist worthy of his shingle would immediately spot this work as a textbook example of projection -- attributing one's own character traits and behavior patterns to "the enemy," as in "...it is the action of a Party determined to destroy its opponents entirely and sieze all power for itself..."
Noonan's post does reveal a partly accurate perception of the facts on the ground, however, because he appears to recognize the existence of a movement determined to undermine and put an end to the neocon dictatorship. There is indeed such a movement, although Noonan incorrectly identifies the Democratic Party as its vehicle.
A few Democrats are involved in this movement, but the party as a whole is not. The majority of mainstream Democrats seem on the verge of joining the Whigs and Greenbacks in the Museum of Extinct Parties. They generally dislike the neocons, but have never figured out exactly how to respond to them.
The movement is just now taking shape. It will be led by newcomers like Cindy Sheehan and old-timers like Jesse Jackson. It will include some Democrats, such as Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich. Its chief means of communication will be the blog and the e-mail, but more print medium vehicles will also soon begin to appear, spreading the word.
The movement will be non-violent, as it must be, for resorting to violence would be self-destructive. However, it would be unrealistic to expect that our neocon rulers will refrain from violence once they realize they are being seriously challenged.
The first shot in the struggle to come hasn't been fired, but Mark Noonan has put us on notice that it soon will be. And at some point, he and others like him are going to realize that the Democratic Party is not their most significant opposition.
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