Local Democrats courageously prepare for 2015 by censoring Roger on social media.

In the aftermath of the Floyd County Democratic Party's historic and epochal beat down in county elections ten days ago, its hip, web-savvy "reformist" central committee has taken a bold and innovative step to rebuild the tottering local party machine.

It has blocked me on social media.

I kid you not.

Surely this bit of childishness represents the acme, the pinnacle -- the very highlight -- of my career as a pestiferous gadfly,

That's right. The very same entity that jumped up and down, sweaty and red-faced with delight just like a little kid on Christmas morning, when the newspaper handed it the pre-election gift of Fakebook -- and then somehow actually lost ground in the voting after outside money slimed the incumbent Ed Clere -- now dons the ear plugs and blinders by quashing the free exchange of information.

I can only surmise that Adam and the gang feel threatened by ideas ... not that they've ever participated in any genuine social media exchange involving them.

Did you know that the lexicon of American slang includes the phrase "mickey mouse bullshit"? It seems applicable, as I may have prompted the current round of MMB with this post-election comment:

Then again, it might have been this:

New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 54: Jeff Gahan averts his gaze as dump trucks keep dumping all over us.

Ironically, I learned of my muzzling when I was trying to decide where to post this:

How the Democratic Party Lost Its Soul, by William Greider (The Nation)

 ... The tattered authenticity of the party matters more now because both the country and the world face dangers and disorders that demand a fundamental reordering of the global economic system. This requires bold action, at a time when neither party is confronting the threatening situation. The Republicans are a wholly owned subsidiary of the business-finance machine; the Democrats are rented.

What we need is a rump formation of dissenters who will break free of the Democratic Party’s confines and set a new agenda that will build the good society rather than feed bloated wealth, disloyal corporations and absurd foreign wars. This is the politics the country needs: purposeful insurrection inside and outside party bounds, and a willingness to disrupt the regular order. And we need it now, to inject reality into the postelection spin war within the party. On one side, the right-wingers will blame the loss on Obama’s unpopularity, claiming his economic policy is too liberal; progressives must counter that the Democrats lost because they had no economic message aside from Obama’s replay of tired Wall Street bromides that misfired so spectacularly.

I'm just the beer guy, but it seems to me that with the local voting math changing fast, it may not be the best idea for the Democratic Party to kiss its left wing goodbye. But if that's the way it has to be ...