Democratic Yippies, now in suits, I’m getting it…slowly.

Yippies. Well, well. They came sort of after Hippies, didn’t they? That would put them right smack dab into Obama’s Chicago blend, I guess. Most of us have been trying to figure out what this guy stands for, or with. Most of us want to know why the Democratic National Committee has been trying to just push the Clintons out of the way. It isn’t exactly as if this guy Howard Dean has helped her is it?

The New Left. I wondered what this was the minute I saw those words. Left doesn’t mean the same thing to all people in the Democratic Party. It used to, once upon a time. Now? No.

People who were to the “left” coming out of the 1970’s knew all about “ecology” that’s the older word for “Green” that companies are trying so hard to target market to you right now. It’s totally old hat to California, trust me.

So, once we saw the web page for “Recreate ‘68″ and the Denver Convention, we wondered what was up with that. I don’t think you can recreate 1968 with a bunch of yippies in suits. It’s just not the same as it was back then. Besides, the yippies used to be anti-establishment and theatrical. No longer so in this sham of a corporation masquerading as presidential candidate circa 2008. Yippies had no intention of trademarking words as slogans for anything. That’s a modern marketer’s trick.

Yippies gone corporate? Oh my. That would make Abbie Hoffman roll over in his grave. Here is one of his speeches from 1968.

That brings us back to Dean and the DNC, which no longer seems so Democratic to a lot of Democrats.

Try and recreate ‘68 without feminists? Flip off Hillary Clinton? I don’t think so. Here’s an article off Politico. Take a good look at what has happened as the baby boom has aged. And read this. It’s called “A proposed solution for Fla. and Mich.”

You might notice the target-marketed ad off to the right as well, while you are at it. So ultra-yippie, isn’t it? Or is that yuppie-yippie?

Here is the problem in a nutshell, from the piece:

“…DNC Chairman Howard Dean said at the time that such revotes were permissible and would bring Michigan and Florida back into compliance. And there was precedent: In 1996, Delaware Democrats held a party caucus earlier than the permissible date, resulting in a rule violation. But state Democrats were allowed to hold another caucus later on and were then found to be back in compliance.

In March and April 2008, Clinton publicly supported the revote proposals of Michigan’s Granholm and Levin and Florida’s Nelson. She repeatedly invited Obama to join her and do the same. He never did — and the revotes never occurred.

Now the Obama campaign would say that they neither objected nor approved; they just raised “concerns.” That is a fact. But here is an unavoidable inference from other undeniable political facts: Had Obama instructed those supporters in Michigan and Florida who were opposed to the revotes to support them, and joined with Clinton in endorsing the revotes, the new rounds of voting would have occurred. Can anyone seriously argue against that inference? Or that the Obama campaign, by referring to vague concerns for weeks about the revote proposals without offering to sit down with Clinton campaign, Florida, and Michigan Democratic officials to work them out, was more intent on playing out the clock and killing the chance of any revotes than finding solutions to permit the revotes to occur?…”

The old stall game. Don’t think the feminist vote hasn’t noticed what you did. Because something about it seems? Corporate-Yuppie-Yippie-ish, not to mention faux. Do we vote in this country? Or do we leave states out by stalling and trying to force the other candidate off the ticket? You owe the Democratic Party an explanation. And Hillary, too.

But wait, there’s more…check this out, complete with downloads. Who is rooting for who, and who helped who, and who is Howard Dean anyway? You might find out more over here from the Personal Democracy Forum. Looks like you can get a few reads here, especially “Taking Our Country Back: The New Left, Yippies, Deaniacs, and the Production of Contemporary American Politics.” Looks like all these bloggy types are having a conference, isn’t that interesting. Especially when you see who is involved…and, what they are going to be covering. How interesting. Especially the “money bomb” part, no? Or “new ways of making and spending money online” or “how the internet can save the planet” — I have my doubts on that last one, except as an educational resource but, one never knows. Granted, greens don’t believe in burning coal or opening up more nuclear plants or selling oneself as a brand. It’s an “ecology” thing, you know?

But let’s get back to the “old school” yippies…over here at Spectator, there is a book review and mini-romp through the “Left” for the uninitiated…here’s a taste:

“…COMING DOWN FROM the 1960s was a nightmare for the Left. Black Panthers Eldridge Cleaver and Huey Newton became addicted to crack, with Newton getting blown away by a dealer in 1989. Depressed and irrelevant, Abbie Hoffman, “the New Left’s clown prince,” killed himself with an overdose of barbiturates that same year. Not that all the ’60s radicals met with such fates, though: “Mark Rudd, Bernardine Dohrn, and Bill Ayers, three of the most visible Weathermen, landed faculty positions,” Flynn reminds us. Thousands of other ’60s leftists, and society at large, were not so lucky. “Only the most sentimental ex-hippie could fail to recognize the prices paid on the road to the new freedoms,” Flynn quotes ex-SDS president Todd Gitlin as saying. “The booming teenage pregnancy rate; the dread diseases that accompanied the surge in promiscuity; the damage done by drugs; the undermining of family commitment…” Those lessons went unlearned well into the 1980s, as homosexual-rights activists responded to the AIDS crisis by demanding that gay bathhouses not be shut down and the Lambda Defense Fund and National Gay Task Force sued to prevent the release of the first AIDS test in 1985.

“Nobody learns,” an older and disillusioned Carl Oglesby tells Flynn. “Nobody learns anything from anybody. All the mistakes that are made have to be made all over again, in a new key, in a new tempo. What can I say?..”

Yeah, what can I say? Could we have the candidate that has some SOLUTIONS at the ready?

That would be Hillary Clinton. That’s why she won in California. We’re just so rad out here, as it is.

How about a ticket that says Hillary and Al. Sounds like something might get solved, for Democracy and Democrats. And Global Warming, and Poverty?