The Democratic Party's Utopian Vision of the 'Perfect' Society

“There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals.”

–Hannah Ardent, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"

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Once the Party of White Superiority and Jim Crow (model for NAZI anti-Jewish Laws), the Democrats have Reinvented themselves and committed themselves to a new mission, atoning for their own historical bigotry.  It's the Party of White Guilt-Pride.  Guilty for its' Past History... yet Proud of it's new Mission of Redemption granted to them by their Patron Saint, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement that they once so arduously fought, succumbed to in '64, and then  re-purposed through supporting, with over-swollen "white guilt-pride Spirit" in their new-found commitment to the virtue of nondiscrimination (aka- "not thinking/ not distinguishing and finding patterns in information") with the zeal of a born-again Christian convert, using "race" as the excuse to "not-see race" (as past sin atonement), rather than simply not seeing race as a very useful "category of thought" like normal people.

from a Slavoj Zizek talk

Marx's vision of Communism remains all too much a vision of Capitalism without Capital, without Capitalism. Marx always speaks as if we have this incredible dynamic in Capitalism, but then at a certain stage of development, you drop the form of Capital, search for profit, and so on; and you will get uh self-propelled, even more crazy, wild expansion reproduction. I think precisely, and here I'm entering your topic of lack and access, I think that precisely, leaps as we are experiencing today, this will not happen. 

The greatest Hegelian Insight that we get is that something that may appear to be an obstacle to full development of a field is its' condition of possibility. So you take away the obstacle, and you lose, at the same time, what this was an obstacle to. 

Now we take an example, I apologize myself sincerely but I just don't have a better example, if it will sound slightly male chauvinist, no? It's an old story that I repeat again all the time. I was flirting, years ago with a lady. I will not tell you "where, who said, "The last lover who saw me naked told me that my body is perfect... just, it was "almost perfect", it would have been just better, if I were to lose just two pounds. And I told her immediately, "just don't do that." Because you need this imperfection to give birth to the fantasy, "My god, without that you would be perfect!" But if you take away the obstacle, she would just be bland, average, you lose it.

So, I will not lose time here, something along this, I think, happens with Marx, when he all the time says that "the form of Capital is the obstacle." Yes, but only in the form of this obstacle can the expanded self reproduction function.

The Democratic Party's vision of a perfect society is a society without any traces of discrimination.  It's prime function is to eliminate ALL and EVERY vestige of discrimination, and make every citizen exactly the same... perfect "equity", not only in an "opportunity" sense, but in a "realized" one. 

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

-Nietzsche

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But what would happen if that mission were to be realized, if this goal were to be accomplished?  The Democratic Party's entire purpose and function would disappear, the Party would revert to being a bland, average, "Republican-style UniParty.   Anti-discrimination is the Democratic Party's very political-market discriminator.  Without the perception of rampant discrimination, and a villain perpetrating it to be vanquished (ala Hamlet's Claudius), the Democratic Party would disappear.  And so it keeps its' imaginary politically-derived-divisions of villains: racists, homophobes, trans-phobes, alive.  It see's them everywhere... even as "systemic" in nature.  It must, because without them, they would serve no purpose.

To the monsters, we're the monsters

And as the Democratic Party get closer and closer to accomplishing this goal of complete and total "equity", it needs to not only invent new categories of discrimination, but it must keep the vanquished categories of villains and incidents alive as well, lest it lose its' +50% elected majority.  It becomes a victim of its' own success, requiring ever new, petty, and ever miniscule "categories" of victims.  And so it must manufacture hate crimes, and hold them up as examples of their party's continued relevancy.  It must keep memories of the old, vanquished discriminating oppressors alive, lest they lose the votes of their formerly historically victimized and oppressed groups. They believe that their Party alone must be perceived as the Heroes and Saviours of the perpetually oppressed, and anyone who opposes them, one of the vile and perennially evil discriminating/ oppressor class.

Acta non Verba: Masculine Activism (Hamlet); NOT Ophelia in War Communism or Pallas Athena

The more perfect our society actually becomes, the more inventive of victims, the more "petty" the Democratic Party arguments justifying their intervention must become.  Vanquishing 99.99999% of the racists is never enough.  They need to relentlessly pursue and masculinely exterminate the remaining 0.00001% with NAZI-Like fascistic determination.  And if they succeed, much as with Marx's vision of Communism, the Government will *poof* disappear... and along with it, the Democratic Party itself thereby proving the adage that "What begins in tragedy, ends in farce."  The unseen problem being that not only will the need for Government disappear, but there will be nothing left of the Utopian society it envisioned either.  For the apparent obstacle to full development of a field is also its' very condition of possibility, forming a "quantum entanglement" of ideological concepts that pop into and out of conscious existence.

I feel so good about myself!  

I'm fighting FASCISTS and RACISTS and HOMOPHOBES, Oh MY!