The social reasons for Bush's victory

Even those among the Democrats whose reaction to shattering defeat has not been "We are right and there is absolutely no problem at all with what we say and do," there is a strong and understandable reaction against looking at themselves as they are, and as others see them. It is equally difficult to make the case in this context, since, as the reaction shows, the vast majority of LJers live and move and have their being in the very same mental dimension that is the essence of the modern Democratic party, and that the rest of America finds so objectionable. What I am going to write is going to be intensely distasteful to most readers.

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I suspect I have come near my limit for this article, so the rest of the post will follow later.