Matt Taibbi Asks What's the Democrats' Alternative to God?

Just like Davey D, Matt Taibbi blames the Democrats' big loss this year to their own lack of a compelling reason to vote for their candidates. Specifically, he rebukes the party leaders for dismissing the Christian voters who went for Bush not yet offering their own alternative for the hope, community, and love these citizens find in their religious values.

This blog is aimed at political newbies, so the sociology Taibbi is mentioning here may be unfamiliar or confusing to most of my readers. I'll quote just a little from it:

"We blame corporate America for this state of affairs because this ideology of individual acquisitiveness is the religion it naturally preaches. But it's our failure to come up with a competing ideology of getting along that's the real problem. Down south, in those "backward" red states, they vote the way they do because they see this individualistic religion as a creature of the cold, greedy, north, which has chosen to attack the idiocy of the right-wing church rather than admit to its own spiritual unhappiness."

Yikes. There's more and it's really good, so read the whole thing.

His points ring true to me as a registered Democrat with conservative Christian leanings. I always find myself hating the moral and social stances of the liberal candidates I vote for.