Resistance pt 2

If this pans out, Boris may win a bet:

In two television interviews, hours after she scored critical primary victories in Texas and Ohio that helped revive her presidential bid, Clinton was asked about a joint bid with the first-term senator from Illinois.

"Well, that may ... be where this is headed, but of course, we have to decide who's on the top of the ticket," Clinton said on the CBS "Early Show." "And I think that the people of Ohio very clearly said that it should be me."

In an interview on MSNBC, Clinton noted that both she and Obama had been asked if they would pick the other as their vice presidential running mate.

"Obviously, it's premature for either of us to address it," she said.

She added: "There is a lot of ... interest in that. Many Democrats are hoping for that. We have to sort through this nominating process to see ... who ends up as the nominee.

This is called blowback. It is a fact that the Right nearly always fails to grasp. From historical foreign adventures that create present-day enemies to regressive and oppressive domestic policies, they are architects of their own defeat. Duplessis in Quebec was followed by the Quiet Revolution, Mulroney's tenure ended with him polling in the teens and led to successive Liberal majorities. Two terms of Clinton I after Reagan and Bush I and now the rise of Obama and Clinton as antithesis to Bush II is not coincidental. It could almost be a law of physics - 'for every action...'. In successive rounds, the Right gets every more malicious and brutal in their tactics; this is not a sign of strength, it is weakness. In successive rounds the depth of their defeat increases by fathoms.

They've lost the capacity to win without criminality, and unable to table an honest piece of legislation, they need to bribe, bully and subvert their way into power. The pillars of their ideology and worldview - neoliberal corporatism, militarism, and medieval Christianity - are obsolete. For our Party of Harper, a Democrat win south of the border is a terrifying place where they end up adrift with an ideology without relevance: what would they do, invade Iraq on their own; launch a one sided NAFTA with a protectionist US trying to shore up its failing economy? How long would a Harper government last in the face of change south of the border? The rigidity of their ideology means they cannot but fail to adapt to a complex and changing world.

The often heard progressive's lament about the stupidy of the much of electorate in electing Conservatives is no doubt legitmate but ignores the fact that it is this same body of the electorate that forms the massed infantry of the counter-movement that eventually destroys rightwing governments. The problem lies in the task of repairing the damage done after we win. But every time we do, we move forward a little more.

We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go
Always a little further: it may be
Beyond the last blue mountain barred with snow,
Across that angry or that glimmering sea...

This is our world. It is changing. They just don't know it yet.