Posted on 09/15/2003 8:01:17 AM PDT by Mark Felton
Once upon a time, there were essentially two political parties in America—the Democrats, the party of the blue-collar man; and the Republicans, the party of the white-collar man. Two parties, two visions, yet both American. Today, there are still two major parties in America—the Democrats, the party of death, and the Republicans, the party of slow suicide. The names may have remained the same, but the times, they have a--changed.
My parents were “New Deal” Democrats—they believed that Franklin Roosevelt and his big government helped get us out of the Great Depression. While that point is certainly debatable, it is certainly true that Franklin Roosevelt wasn’t Howard Dean.
My folks were hard working, bill paying, church-going people. They sacrificed and sent their kids to Catholic school, so we could get a better education than they themselves were able to get. My dad was a combat Vet, and proudly flew the colors at all appropriate holidays. He would not have recognized John Kerry. My mom was a “homemaker” when the word wasn’t considered an insult. Trust me, she wouldn’t have recognized Hillary Clinton.
Viewing today’s Democratic Party is mind numbing. The party’s total degeneration is now complete. And all the old rules of civilized discourse are gone. We have Bill Clinton and his Jim Jones followers to thank for that. His behavior in office hit new lows, and he pulled a whole political party down with him.
Now it’s considered okay to lie, to cheat, to steal in order to “win”. To rip the Commander In Chief while the man is leading a war for our nation’s survival. To blame the man for his “failure” in the war on terror when everyone knows liberal Democrats have been terror’s best friend. The leadership of this party is wicked to the core, and following them leads to certain death.
Unchecked abortion, revolving door immigration, rampant homosexuality, backbreaking taxes, crippling regulation, the rise of the U.N. and N.E.A., the shredding of the Constitution—the list goes on ad nauseam. This is the legacy of the modern Democratic Party.
The main alternative is the Republican Party. A party that accomplished some remarkable things over the years, like freeing the slaves and winning the Cold War. But something has happened to the Grand Old Party.
Many of the GOP’s positions will bring us to the same destination (death) as the Democrats, only slower. Example: immigration. Where the Democrats seek to destroy the United States with open, uncontrolled immigration, the Republicans apply window dressing, yet keep the borders open, in an effort to win votes and not offend Hispanics.
The Republican strategy appears to be to win now and to hell with the succeeding generations. It’s kind of like the late Washington Redskins’ coach George Allen’s “the future is now” strategy.
Republicans who follow such a strategy are ensuring the eventual demise of their own party as the more illegal immigrants they allow in, the worse their chances become of winning office in the future. This ain’t hard to figure out, folks.
On many other issues, the Republicans’ strategy of slow strangulation is evident. Take the growth of government itself, which was once considered a great evil. Ronald Reagan himself said, “Government is the problem.” Now Republican leaders are all too happy to grow the government, thereby increasing its power to enslave the average American.
Republicans are happy to let organizations like the NEA grow in power, as they preside over the brutalizing of our children’s minds, spirits, and sometimes bodies. When will the people realize that they cannot take back their culture while the NEA maintains control over their children? Remember the words of Hitler: “When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already.”
Republicans cannot even muster enough strength to stop the obvious brutality of partial birth abortion, or object when the left removes the Ten Commandments from a state courthouse, or speak up when “apple pie American” groups like the Boy Scouts are preyed upon by homosexual activists and traitorous judges.
The only viable alternative for those of all political persuasions is a strong stand for truth which would bring life and hope to this nation. While the current Democratic Party is by far the larger evil, choosing the big lie or the smaller lie both lead to death at varying speeds.
This is not a call for the abandonment of the classic two-party system. But it is a call, to either choose the speed of this nation’s death, or demand a better set of choices from your party. I recommend the latter.
Patrick Rooney is the Director of Special Projects at BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, a nonprofit organization dedicated to “Rebuilding the Family By Rebuilding the Man.”
"Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man." --Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 1795. ME 9:317
Revolving door? Seems that it's more like a one-way entry to me.
The author instead elects to punt by placing the blame at the feet of the political parties. He thereby absolves the public -- both voting and non-voting -- of the blame.
As John Adams put it: "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . ... Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
The problem is not partisan per se, it is the fact that we are less and less a "moral and religious people."
I haven't got a solution to this -- maybe there is none.
The Republican strategy appears to be to win now and to hell with the succeeding generations.
Republicans who follow such a strategy are ensuring the eventual demise of their own party as the more illegal immigrants they allow in, the worse their chances become of winning office in the future.
Republicans cannot even muster enough strength to stop the obvious brutality of partial birth abortion, or object when the left removes the Ten Commandments from a state courthouse, or speak up when “apple pie American” groups like the Boy Scouts are preyed upon by homosexual activists and traitorous judges.
The only viable alternative for those of all political persuasions is a strong stand for truth which would bring life and hope to this nation. While the current Democratic Party is by far the larger evil, choosing the big lie or the smaller lie both lead to death at varying speeds.
This is not a call for the abandonment of the classic two-party system. But it is a call, to either choose the speed of this nation’s death, or demand a better set of choices from your party. I recommend the latter.
I gave specifics to a solution. The solution lies with each community reasserting their power to determine how their own children will be educated.
Put education in the hands of the two people who most passionately want it to succeed for the students, the teachers and the parents.
Keep education $$ away from the people who desperately want to use education to gain power and influence, the political parties, the politicians, the Unions and basically anybody who is not a classroom teacher nor has a child in the classroom.
That would appear to be the "strategery" in California.
And while it's all very well to call for us to "keep education $$ away from the people who desperately want use" them, the problem lies in figuring out how, precisely, to do that -- the solution to which you have not provided.
Fits right in to my freeper profile.
Here is my take on politics There is no Constitutional justification, or encouragement for us having a two party system. So why do we have this ugly situation? Two political gangs, the Republicans and the Democrats have taken over the political system. They divide the political spoils between them and make sure no outside candidate, or third political party can ever get elected-with a few minor exceptions.
I mostly vote for the stupid, politically inept, anti labor Republicans, because I feel they do less damage to the country and family, and are more suppportive of our Constitution. So you can't really expect either gang to represent you, unless you are a member in good standing, or can buy the influence, either with money, or by delivering votes.
Too many people voting with their bellies instead of their heads, if you ask me.
I haven't got a solution to this -- maybe there is none.
Ride out the storm, and have a broom handy when the wave crashes and it's time to clean up...
Good point.
Disagree. You might want to read this for some history:
| 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | |
| Voting age population in millions | 157.6 | 172.8 | 180.7 | 185.6 | 194.8 |
| Democrat votes in millions | 35.5 | 37.5 | 41.8 | 44.8 | 45.6 |
| Percent of Democrat votes | 23% | 22% | 23% | 24% | 23% |
The fundamental reason for the victories of Ronald Reagan (1980 and 1984) and George H.W. Bush (1988) is that they ran on a solid conservative agenda that was easily understood, and believed, by conservative base voters. Both President Bush (1992) and Bob Dole (1996) lost because their campaigns lacked conservative credibility, resulting in fewer Republican votes as the conservative base abandoned them by either staying home or registering a protest vote for Ross Perot.
really?
That I can provide you an end objective with which you agree in the space of a short posting is remarkable.
But now you also expect that I lay out a grand battle plan that would accomodate all the public schools? That misses the original point.
The moment that individual communities believe they might be able to regain control of their own schools will be the moment in which a thousand viable solutions will begin to precipitate.
As for me I have several specific ideas. I have presented them to my Congressman. I have held press conferences. I have worked within the system and without. I now homeschool. My ideas may not be the best, but at least I am thinking and willing to act, and that is the real hurdle we face.
Our schools have bred out the can-do attitude. They have convinced average Americans that there is no real solution, except the status quo.
Sounds like the culture of the USSR at it's most defeatist.
PS: One idea I like is paying the schools the way we pay contract engineering companies. They are paid an hourly rate $80-125/hr for each billable teacher hour. From that income all expenses, textbooks, admin, building healthcare, etc must be paid. Rates will be negotiated based on objective standards of performance for the students and productivity of the teachers. Rates are negotiated between members of the community (elected parents, county officials) and the school district management. Hiring/firing authority rests with the community members. [there's far more to it all of course, but I don't have the time or incliniation to elaborate here just now, perhaps later]
As a sample discussion item, the linked article ties in nicely with the current Freeper discussion:
http://www.brothersjudd.com/blog/archives/007931.html
Very good point. Most people want the government to protect them from the bumps in life; some to more of a degree than other. However, to a degree powerful interest do trump popular will. Take proposition 187 in Calinfornia. It was overwhelmingly approved by the populace (approved even by Hispanics IIRC), yet Governor Davis sued to get it invalidated. Take school vounchers. Something like 80% of Black people want their kids out of failed, crime-ridden inner city schools. However, the teachers unions manage to any voucher programs watered down to the point of silliness. I think there's an element of both in modern American politics.
I side with Jefferson.
All free political bodies will naturally split between conservatives and liberals.
However, currently both parties are not motivated by liberal or conservative philosophies. While they each have elements of liberalism and conservatism ultimately they are dominated by simple greed.
I would like to see a re-alignment of those parties. There are conservatives in both parties. I would like to see the conservatives in the democrat party re-align themselves with the conservatives of the Republican party, join forces and establish a new party that will excite the displaced masses.
I think this is a valid point. The Republicans have not been effective in curbing even the most egregious examples of politically-inspired culture rot.
And you missed the point of my reply. We can tell the truth all we want, and should do so. But until the nation decides to listen to and live by the truth, our talk will come to nothing.
I suggest you do the same. The conservative purists would ditch the middle and lose the game. The rinos want to win the middle, hold on, and then slowly advance the ball down the field. The conservative strategy in football terms, means going deep on every play.
Sadly, it's too late. The Second Civil War is coming and the resulting breakup of the country is inevitable. The best people will be able to do is prepare and try to survive the blood bath. I wish this weren't so but you need look no further than at whets happening in Kalifornia to see the handwriting on the wall.
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