SF columnist Jon Carroll gives Truthout a shoutout

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specifically, disaffected repuke Mike Lofgren's righteous screed:

http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/09/DD121L1BVM.DTL

The Internets are buzzing about Mike Lofgren's takedown of the Republican Party published by Truthout, the left-wing rabble-rousing website. The news here is not that Truthout doesn't like Republicans; it's that Mike Lofgren is a Republican who worked for 28 years as a legislative aide to various GOP members of Congress.

So it would be fair to say that he knows what he's talking about. What he's talking about is not exactly new, but it is a succinct (despite its length) statement of what has happened to the Republicans, why it happened and how the Democrats - or indeed, patriotic Americans of all political orientations - completely missed the point and thus the boat....

So go ahead, Jon Stewart, make fun of Congress. Hell, even make fun of Fox News. If people were to stop watching Fox, probably they'd stop watching TV news and start watching that show where the guy kills the rodents. So we get more of what Lofgren calls "low-information" voters ("ignorant" is another word for that) who will hear through the low-information grapevine about Obama's plan to Islamify America....

If people get out of politics, if people stop paying attention, stop even voting, then government really is left to the crooks and the liars. They will be abetted by large corporations, to whom the Republicans have long since sold their soul. The eternally debated question - how can the Republicans get people to vote against their own economic interests? - is answered simply enough by Lofgren: They lie.