House of Eratosthenes

What we are witnessing today as 2011 turns the page, is a slow, agonizing death of the once proud party of the people. In decades past, the Democratic Party was the party of the working man. It was the party that fought to even the playing field with unscrupulous and an all-too greedy American industry. Over time, real progress was made and working folks were paid a decent wage and afforded a lifestyle that many today would envy. I was fortunate enough to grow up in the America of the 1950s and 1960s that molded me into what I am today. In 1968, I was proud to cast my first ballot for Hubert Horatio Humphrey. Things have changed a bit these past 45 years.

Today the Party of the working man has become the Party of the non-working class. The Democrats have devolved to become the Party of moochers, leeches, and victims. And this Party of hope and change has morphed into a Frankenstein that would turn FDR in his grave. The Democratic Party is an abomination that is slowly strangling the greatest country in the world: The United States of America.

He gives lots of reasons not to vote for them…none of which I need. Question is, are they really on a downslide into oblivion? Isn’t that looking through rose-colored glasses?

I’ll permit myself this much optimism: They are not going away, since we have a need for two major parties. One of those parties, or the other, can diminish itself to standing for absolutely nothing, and certainly the democrat party is close to this extreme. But that party will continue to endure, if for no other reason than to accumulate and thereby represent the votes of opposition to the other party, votes which are always going to be there, and will always need a place to go.

But I think in the next couple of decades the Donkey Party will have to reform. Standing for absolutely nothing is a bad plan. History suggests that when it comes to planning battle strategy, democrat strategists are smarter than I am — as I would certainly hope they would be, since this isn’t my day job. But they’re pig-iron stupid when it comes to things they haven’t seen coming. They have a poor track record of “waking up,” becoming aware of things which had previously escaped their awareness. I don’t think they were aware of what follows…

Wisdom from my Hello Kitty of Blogging page:

It’s interesting. We’ve got all these people who say the two major parties are the same, in some ways…and let’s face it, they have a point.

But it seems when the GOP surges to victory, it’s over some specific issues. Like hey, quit letting these felons out of jail to rape our wives and slaughter our children. Or get rid of that boondoggle ObamaCare. Nuke those terrorists, welfare is temporary assistance not a permanent way of life, build the dang fence.

When the democrat party has a good year, it’s over a bunch of fluff and nonsense. Hooray for us! Help us destroy our opposition. More power and money to our friends in the unions, businesses shouldn’t be profitable, work shouldn’t be rewarding.

These two parties are not the same.

The democrats don’t have a platform. In order to create the perception that they do have one, they have to peddle cliches that don’t really mean anything.

Well, they don’t have much of one. If I were to speak in tones of realism about the platform they really do have, it would be three planks:

One, there are people with racist/sexist/prejudicial thoughts running around, and (somehow) we’ve got to fix this.

Two, there needs to be more power and money going through the federal government. Since it’s we good people who are going to be running it forever and ever and ever, y’know. No bad people are ever on top, from this moment forward, so we have to make it omni-powerful and put it in charge of everything.

Three: Like I said, above, hard work should not pay. People who create products and provide services useful to other people, need to be under the command and management of other people who’ve never done any such thing in their entire lives.

This isn’t a complete list. There’s a line somewhere that separates “what’s wrong with them?” from “what exactly is it they’re trying to do?” The line gets blurry and it gets blurry rather fast…so the ones that look more like criticism than statement of purpose, I’ve left off. Skipped over the ones that would make them look really bad.

I hear a lot of this “not a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties” at work. Two of my co-workers actually pride themselves on being centrist and moderate. One openly disdains politics (but is constantly injecting himself into other people’s political conversations) and the other is continually bringing up how he voted for Reagan in the 80s but has become disillusioned with both sense them. The second one also thinks he’s the arbiter of who is “out of touch” or “extreme.” Both men are in their early 40s, and although I like both of them, I respect them less than I do my colleagues who are openly liberal. (Of course, me and the other conservative are the only two in the entire office who seem to be able to articulate a coherent opinion or rebut anything said by the opposition…)

What especially galls me is that when I ask one of these middle-of-the-road types for examples of Democrat-like behavior among the Republicans, the RINO establishment types are the names who always seem to come up. Or I have to hear about how Bush “wrecked” the economy just like Obama is doing now, or Bush and Obama were both in bed with Wall Street or some such nonsense. Keep in mind that I’m talking about “moderates,” not left-wingers.

I tried pointing out to the 2nd one the other day that it really wasn’t until early 2007 (you know, when the Democrats took over Congress) when the economy really started to tank, but do you think I made any headway?
- cylarz | 12/02/2011 @ 20:48
“Moderate” or “independent” means liberal. Plain and simple. They are at least quasi-sincere when they say they don’t “follow politics,” in that they know jack squat about the nuts and bolts of the government, but that’s about it.

Put any issue to ’em — any issue at all — and they will give the media’s predigested answer. Which is, of course, the DNC’s answer. For instance:

ObamaCare: Should we, or should we not, socialize one of the largest sectors of the economy? There are umpteen bajillion reams of evidence — from Britain, from Canada, from everywhere— that socialized medicine reduces services and increases costs, and exactly zero evidence that it does the opposite. To this, the “moderate” replies: “but there are so many people out there who lack coverage! We have to do something!!!” And then they vote Dem.

Taxes: the Laffer Curve is just about as certain as anything can be in economics, and the top 1% of income earners already pay 40% of the taxes. To this, the “independent” replies: “yeah, but the still rich aren’t paying their fair share!” And then the vote Democrat.

Etc. etc. Leftist control of most of the media and the entire educational apparatus, kindergarten through tenure, means that Conquest’s Law applies to society as well as organizations via cultural osmosis — if you’re not openly, explicitly conservative, you’re functionally a liberal at least 8 times out of 10.
- Severian | 12/03/2011 @ 08:31
“Moderate” or “independent” means liberal. Plain and simple.

Au Contraire.
For lack of a better word (The official designation for Independent in New Hampshire is undeclared, I CALL myself Independent. IMHO, our “party” Republicans aren’t conservative enough. “Undeclared” implies too much I-can’t-figure-out-how-to Tivo-MSNBC ish, and not enough NRA Life Member ish.” Libertarian” (or even libertarian) seems beyond the processing
threshold of too many folks ’round here.
- CaptDMO | 12/03/2011 @ 16:38

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