Posted on 02/19/2024 9:48:12 PM PST by lightman
The Democratic Party is a group of insufferable children, spoiled and entitled, throwing a constant series of temper tantrums without interruption. They are the brat kid in your child’s class, constantly indulged with hugs and reassurances that they’re “special” and important, when what they really need is a butt-reddening series of spanks that make it difficult to sit for a week. That won’t happen because leftists don’t have any adults on their side.
Well, maybe that’s overstating it a bit – they have adults, but they aren’t interested in acting like one. They are more interested in an agenda über alles approach to life, written in its original German because, well, that’s who they are.
Along those lines, the Democrat Party has allowed their fringe to run wild and destroy lives. Now they not only control the party, they are the party.
Conventional wisdom in the media is that “The Republican Party has moved so far to the right…” This is never backed up with any facts, just stated as if it were true because it was said. But if you think about it, the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan is pretty much the Republican Party of today in almost every way except tone.
The attitude of the rhetoric has absolutely gotten more pointed; harsher. For years, when Republicans were attacked by the fascistic left, they took an almost apologetic approach. Only Reagan could turn a friendly sounding rebuttal into a smiling stinger that left a mark, other Republicans just cowered, wanting to be liked by the people beating them.
Donald Trump changed that. Hit him and he’d hit back, sometimes with a brutal observation or takedown everyone knew to be true to no Republican had the guts to say, other times with the equivalent of “You’re fat and ugly.” One is less productive than the other, but both leave a mark.
Democrats have been doing this forever. They got away with it because who was going to call them on it? Journalists? Television comedians? They weren’t about to be critical of their own team, especially when they were engaging in the tactics they, themselves, pioneered.
As the left has gotten more radical, they’ve gotten more insistent that it is the right who’ve changed. The party of Reagan was pro-life, pro-border security, pro-growth, pro-America, pro-marriage and traditional family and anti-communist. Democrats used to have a fairly large contingent of members who were a couple of those things too, now they have none.
It’s like sitting next to someone on a long bench, then sliding all the way down to the other end of the bench and complaining that the other person has gone so far away from you. Yes, there is a chasm between the two of you, but they’ve barely moved. It’s about perspective and who frames it more than the reality.
Just a few years ago, no Democrat would allow their cities to burn, the neighborhoods they govern to be destroyed by a band of anti-American goons; they would have shut it down the second anything destructive started to happen. Now, they fundraise for bail money for people who throw firebombs at police and burn local, black owned businesses. But it’s Republicans who’ve changed?
Most curious is how there is literally no one on the left willing to be critical of it. There has been no “Sister Souljah moment,” no Democrat willing to tell this violent mob, or the entitled brats on college campuses, or arrogant and ignorant Members of Congress that this country is not the horrific, racist, sexist, homophobic root of all evil in the world they chant it is.
Not one Democrat stands up for the country against this destructive mob, they embrace it.
This is not the party of JFK – someone who served this country, who was anti-communist. He wasn’t perfect, but he wasn’t anything near what that party is now. Their 1960 nominee would not even be allowed a daytime speaking slot at their convention today.
As you hear Joe Biden whine about how the Republican Party has changed, as him how? Look up everything he’s spent his career advocating and ask if any of what he said he supported in his first presidential run in 1988 is something he supports today. His only legislative “accomplishment” in four decades in the Senate was the 1994 crime bill, which he had to denounce because Democrats no longer support the idea of imprisoning criminals.
So, ask your liberal friends one simple question: Which party changed again?
And then, like Ronaldus Magnus, I discovered that "I hadn't left the Democratic Party--the Party left me".
My moment of awakening was when the DNC muzzled PA Governor Robert Casey, Sr., who was poised to present a pro-life message to the national convention.
The Democrat party has been socialist and anti-American since at least FDR , https://youtu.be/8beQdqi_H7s?si=QXK17UhC7WeZZ9tN.
Nah, they were always against freedom and liberty. After all, they are the party of slavery, segregation, the trail of tears, Jim Crow, the kkk, Japanese internment camps and now infanticide.
before then I really thought the old timey democrats were very pro America, pro military, pro people....and pro God....
You voted for Dukakis in 1988?
The last really normal Democrat was Hubert Humphrey. Among other things he was pro-life. He helped break the communist hold on the Minnesota Democrat party. He was a great American. The radicals that were starting to take over the Democrat party in 1968 despised him.
Nope.
Last Democrap Presidential vote was Clintoon, 1992...and only because I was suckerebated into thinking that he was going to “fix” spiraling healthcare/health insurance costs.
First Presidential vote (1980) was for Ronald Reagan...as a Dem!
Not even your grandfather’s (or fathers for that matter) human
beings.
One things for Sure,
Demonrats are THE ENEMY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
This article was pretty good. It seems to define, but never mentions, what is called LINK: The Overton Window...it is about 2-3 min, but explains it well.
#ing Rats
The Democrat Party is proof that even gangsters and street thugs need a political party.
The Radical Left is so close to having absolute power they can taste it.
JFK would be a radical right winger by today’s political standards.
Yup, that about sums it up..
The one democrat I could see myself voting for in history is Harry Truman. He at least cared enough about the troops to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And if he hadn’t done that, I might not be here today.
” Thank you sir! May I have another?” (Whack!!)
Growing up, I knew a few Conservative Democrats. One was Ella Grasso (The first women’s governor elected in her own right), William O Neil (not Tip, but a state legislator), my state senator (who fought against the income tax), but not anymore.
Unfortunately the republicans never use that. They get called racist but don’t say anything. The democrats want reparations. Fine. Why don’t the republicans say, “yes. The democrats were slave owners who do indeed need to pay for their sins.” Instead? Nothing.
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