You CAN Just Make This Sh*t Up...

AM talk radio commentator Dan Fagan is better at making history up from his sparse, pulp fiction-level knowledge of events than anyone else given a platform in Southcentral Alaska from which they can spew.

As dumbed down and wingnutized as his versions of American politics and society tend to be, he usually launches his newest set of myths from the standard set of GOP kool-aid talking points. (Speaking of kool-aid, Fagan does look more than a little bit like Jim Jones in the latter's last days, doesn't he?)

But Fagan seems to have run out of talking points. He claims that true conservatism has exited, stage left. Locally, nationally, globally, and galactically. At least that's what I get from his Sunday screed in the Anchorage Daily News.

The reality, Dan, is that true conservatism ended with Teddy Roosevelt. And Dwight Eisenhower. Your wet dream of a tryst with Ronald Reagan never happened, Dan. And you just imagined that whole SuperDome episode from some repressed part of your psyche.

Fagan isn't the only addled wingnut in denial. Yesterday's demise of longterm rule of the Matanuska Electrical Association by a group of fake conservatives is another example of a mythical idea being eclipsed by reality.

These faux conservatives aren't just losing focus. Most of them never had any. Citizens who have been tricked into supporting the most corrupt political machine in the history of the USA because they've been falsely led to fear progress, or a hyped enemy created by phony conservatives' ineptness and greed, are starting to wake up. The very large bloc of Alaska independents has usually skewed toward GOP candidates since 1994. That 14-year run is just plain over.

This picture is of the parliamentarian at yesterday's MEA annual meeting at Colony High School in Palmer. He was attempting to deal with the crash of a longstanding paradigm in the best way he could. What had been, for a long time, democracy inaction, was transforming to Democracy IN Action.

Alaskans, especially progressive Alaskans, need to pay close attention to the campaigns of liberals in the 2008 races here. The attendance at Super Tuesday caucuses was energizing. The crash-and-burn aspect of the Coffee-Starr tape is hilarious. The FBI is about to knock on more doors.

As Diane Benson has shown, we need to stand up against tyranny and stupidity when nobody else has the courage to do that. As Ethan Berkowitz is saying, we need to show the electorate that Democrats have important issues to bring to the fore. As Jake Metcalfe has written, "I believe we need to get back to basics and return to the values that made our state great."

There has never been a primary race for our sole U.S. House seat with an array like this of outstanding Alaskans. And other races seem to be attracting more liberals, moderates and progressives too. It isn't just that GOP corruption, ineptitude and ignorance are being rejected. It is that our side is presenting viable candidates who really want to help average Alaskans, rather than line their own pockets, or to help special interests ship billions of our dollars out of state or overseas, like most GOP pols have done here.

We need to do a lot between now and November. Progressives need to talk to friends who are apolitical or are doubting Republicans. We need to be knowledgeable enough about important issues to be able to convince them to vote for change.

Beyond that sometimes empty term, "change," we need to do more. We need to fill that term - change - with workable examples of what can be done. We need to be more energized than Fagan's disenchanted, whiny cohorts have been in the past. And......

We need to attack, Attack, ATTACK, ATTACK!!!!