Comments on: The problem with the “veal pen” construct http://www.starkreports.com/2009/10/13/the-problem-with-the-veal-pen-construct/ Unscripted, unvarnished and unedited Fri, 03 Jun 2011 03:52:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Edward G. Talbot http://www.starkreports.com/2009/10/13/the-problem-with-the-veal-pen-construct/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Edward G. Talbot Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:11:44 +0000 http://www.thecrookeddope.com/?p=44#comment-9 You have to blame the veal consumers too. That means the voters. Granted, voters don't have a lot of options. Choosing the lesser of evils often saves lives and stops pain. It also perpetuates evil. So there are no good choices. Back to the funders, you raise some good points. I guess the problem I see is that even some "good" Democrats are probably tied to these people. Who is the blogosphere willing to piss off? It does no good for an individual blogger to expose something if kos and Huffington Post and the other large blogs see it as attacking the party. I don't say this to criticize those blogs - I visit them regularly and enjoy them. But at some level we have to realize that the Democratic party itself has serious institutional issues and going after those problems will shake the party and possibly result in losing elections and maybe even majorities. Is it worth it? I don't know the answer. You have to blame the veal consumers too. That means the voters. Granted, voters don’t have a lot of options. Choosing the lesser of evils often saves lives and stops pain. It also perpetuates evil. So there are no good choices.

Back to the funders, you raise some good points. I guess the problem I see is that even some “good” Democrats are probably tied to these people. Who is the blogosphere willing to piss off? It does no good for an individual blogger to expose something if kos and Huffington Post and the other large blogs see it as attacking the party. I don’t say this to criticize those blogs – I visit them regularly and enjoy them. But at some level we have to realize that the Democratic party itself has serious institutional issues and going after those problems will shake the party and possibly result in losing elections and maybe even majorities. Is it worth it? I don’t know the answer.

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