I wrote yesterday that the Democratic Party in recent months has "increasingly linked itself to the hysterical DailyKos/MoveOn.org surrender-at-any-cost Left." They're doing it again this week, with seven of the eight Democratic presidential candidates traveling to Chicago to genuflect before the altar of Kos at the second YearlyKos Convention. One of the key sponsors of the event: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
The response reflects the power of the party's liberal voters who hold sway in the primaries and the emergence of the Internet blogs in daily political discourse. A meeting of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council earlier this week failed to attract any of the White House hopefuls.
There are those who bemoan the lack of a conservative counterpart to DailyKos that rivals Kos in size and readership. I don't. The sheer size and reach of DailyKos dominates the Democratic Party and jerks it in an extreme leftward direction. I know many Democrats, and few of them are as extremely radical, leftist and filled with loathing for their country as the dominant message that one gets from Kos.
The DailyKos is the hyper use of social media to drown out centrist, rational voices within the party and enforce a kind of leftist hate-filled, foul-mounted groupthink.
By contrast, the center-right side of the blogosphere flourishes with a multitude of independent voices that often disagree but are rarely as disagreeable as the collectivized cacophony of hatred that spews forth daily from DailyKos.
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