Posted on 07/20/2011 5:43:46 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Democrat champions in the punditocracy confidently predict that the future of the world’s oldest political party is bright. But in fact, the coalition that is the modern Democratic Party is doomed. Every pillar upholding its heavy roof is crumbling.
The Democratic and Republican parties are structurally different.
The Democrats are a coalition, forged in the New Deal, of diverse interests that do not get along well. Imagine the deer-hunting union member sitting down with the vegetarian college professor and the lesbian lawyer and you will begin to see the trouble party leaders have holding the horde together. So far, money and government preferences have been essential. It is largely a party of unions, government workers and retirees, “green” industries, “entitlement” payees, professors, teachers and social-change activists — all of whom require government payments in one form or another. The only major element of the Democratic base that doesn’t receive government payments is the professional class (lawyers, engineers, stock brokers and so on). These high-earners amount to less than 5% of the population and are not reliable Democrat donors.
On the other hand, the Republicans are a consensus party. Activists and leaders fight like hell — leading Democrats to periodically predict the Republicans’ demise — only to settle on some principle that is then adopted by the majority. Tax cuts and preemptive invasions were once battlegrounds, now they are cornerstones. Significantly, very few of its supporters receive government payments. Yes, defense firms, farmers and small-business owners get contracts, subsidies or loans. Yet the overwhelming majority of Republicans pay more than they receive. They want to pay less, not get more.
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I think this author underestimates the power of the leisure class which continuously vote Democrat.
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America ’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America ’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
— Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
The beauty of this analysis is that it’s obvious — all that needs to be done is simply state the facts. The import is irrefutable.
Some very important true facts to ponder here.
Let us hope so.
As long as there are people who want to take other people’s money, there will be a Democratic party.
It’s a contrarian point of view because the RATs seem to be so ascendant right now. The logical flaw is to assume that RATs are logical and rational. If they were, then this argument would have merit. However, we all know this is not the case and being a RAT is not a decision that is rationally based but rather faith based. It’s a religion.
Furthermore, the other assumption is that politics as we know it stays roughly the same. It ignores the possibility that there is a game changer out there where RAT party membership becomes a requirement to get things like jobs, money, food and conversely being associated with another party attracts sanctions. It’s happened in many, many other countries and cultures.
This bit of over-confident optimism ignores the fact, that every time a job is outsourced, a formerly productive American very likely becomes a new democrat.
That is the elephant in the room.
“Free trade” = DEMOCRAT VOTERS.
Unfortunately, in order to reach the masses we need the MSM. Otherwise, we're pretty much just preaching to the choir IMHO.
If the Democrats “Darwin out”, can they take Willard and some of the other RINO’s with them?
A good part of the leisure class are trust funders who graduated from Ivy League Universities or exclusive private liberal arts colleges. Unfortunately a good number of them,after having messed up their own states, have moved to Maine.
Every 4 to 8 years it’s Party “X” that’s doomed to failure..
I wouldn’t be surprised, if, both, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party don’t exist, fifty years from today. OTOH, conservatism and leftist politics will exist forever.
Massive corporate taxation, limitless legal vulnerability, crushing environmental regulation and pro-Union arbitrary Government: these are why industry chooses to locate away from the USA.
Protectionism would be the final nail in the coffin. The last vestiges of American industry would be turned into feather-bedded welfare cases, and freeborn Americans would be forced to buy their stuff from the Government store.
Anyone remember all the “Democrats are toast” and “Democrats are done” posts after the ‘04 election?
“Free trade” is driving jobs overseas.
Thank you for your disinformation.
I believe the author is assuming that Democrats, as a whole, have any sense of ethics, honor or decency. This is a false assumption - their very basis of thought is contradictory. For example, it’s fine to rip an innocent baby out of it’s mother and suck it’s brains out; but you cannot kill a convicted murderer - as that would be morally wrong. I could go on and on ....
As long as someone is happy to take money for doing nothing, knowing that the money they receive is forcibily taken from a person who is working hard; that laziness is rewarded while industrial people are punished - the Democratic party will always have a voter base.
The article is perceptive but ignores ongoing Democratic Party gains because of: (1) ideological recruitment through the educational system; (2) the mass immigration of groups inclined to vote Left and Democratic; (3) and the forced transition under Obamacare — collectivization one could even say — of doctors and other medical personnel from small businesses to employees of large, bureaucratic organizations.
It’s a contrarian point of view because the RATs seem to be so ascendant right now.
What planet are you on that you missed November 2010?
In October, the Demonrats had the House, Senate and Executive and many State governments. That changed by power of the Tea Party. The GOP could have had the Senate had it not been for the vast corruption in Nevada and the idiots like Rove who work for the Enemy.
Compare this year's batch of Presidential Candidates with those of 2008. Then, Romney was the most conservative serious candidate, now he is routinely compared to Barry as a Progressive when put in today's line-up. Even former Democrat and Al Gore campaign manager Rick Perry looks far more conservative than Romney - and Romney has become more Conservative since 2008!
Many States in the intervening time have pushed through voter legislation that ought to help limit the rampant fraud and corruption that characterized the previous twenty years, and we are far more wise now to how the Enemy works to destroy this Country such where we saw the "late delivered" ballot box in Wisconsin to counter the usual fraud and corruption that the Enemy routinely engages in close elections.
Outside the Enemedia and Academia, I just don't see the excitement levels for Barry as he had in 2008
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