cognitive dissonance or kos bullshit?

if you read this daily kos marcos post--which i rarely do; except as a list of links and a welfare program for entry-level democratic establishment apparatchiks, daily kos lost all relevance sometime in early 2003--you see a prime example of what may be actual cognitive dissonance but is more probably bullshit when it comes to his purported support for 'fighting liberals' that suddenly morph into 'fighting democrats'.  that's the tell.  the daily kos crowd, the establishment 'left' blogs have nothing to do with liberal causes or left-wing philosophy.  instead the are all about promoting democrats and electing democrats, not liberals, not socialists, not progressives, not populists or anyone who is not completely loyal to the democratic party establishment.  the (relatively) big left wing blogs are not left wing at all because the democratic party is not at all left wing; as obama has proven over and over again, the democrats are rock-ribbed establishment, wall-street conservatives with as much of the proper fealty to the oligarchy as the reality-based republicans.  so when all these folks talk about electing democrats--how'd that big push for stephanie herseth work out, marcos?--they are gathering up as many of the left-leaning interweb-americans to the conservative democratic party cause as they can.  not a bad deal for the oligarchs.  money well spent.