I would be very nervous about this as well, but for one major thing: the entire contemporary Democrat party has a post-modern brand. Post modernism is a reaction to modernism, with its pseudoscientific determinism. Dialect materialism, which allegedly dictated the development of communism from capitalism, was a product of modernism.
Modernism was very restrictive, since its pseudoscientific precepts, having their basis in Calvinistic double predestination, by definition denied free will and liberty. A ruling elite (the apparatchiks of a central committee plus celebrity and academic "intelligentsia") will govern the masses, who are unable to govern themselves. As a reaction to those ideas, the pseudoscience is rejected in favor of a philosophy of relational concepts. Having no absolutes morally or politically or philsophically, except the idea that there are no absolutes, post-modernism suggests that each person has its own perceptual reality.
A participant in that morass of relativism becomes unable to discern truth from self-deception. John Kerry is a good example of a very pathological manifestation, philosophically, of post-modern malaise. He honestly believes that with enough repetition, his reality can become the nation's.
So, in other words, Kerry's wacked.
Wow! Very succinct, if a bit dense. You are well-read in philosophy.
May I pass this around to some friends?
I think I might have understood some of your post.