Posted on 05/02/2005 4:45:32 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Why are left-wing Democrats and their ilk so opposed to marriage and doing everything possible to undermine it? Recent developments would seem to indicate it's all about political power.
On Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid declared his party hasn't a prayer of taking back the Senate in 2006. "I would like to think a miracle would happen and we would pick up five seats this time." He didn't elaborate, but Brian Nick of the National Republican Senatorial Committee observed, "Sen. Reid can do the math: A Democratic Party, plus no ideas, plus obstruction, plus over-the-top partisan rhetoric equals continued minority."
That's the Reader's Digest version, but it's clear there's something about the Democratic Party that increasingly rubs Americans the wrong way. Recent U.S. Census Bureau projections show generally that states President Bush carried in 2000 and 2004 will grow faster over the next 25 years than those won by his Democratic opponents. That's because the "blue states" are dominated by nanny-state leftists whose progressive policies drive businesses and people away.
Based on the census numbers, opinionjournal.com estimates migration will cost Connecticut another House seat in Congress, while New York will lose six and Pennsylvania four. Meanwhile, red states will gain representation, with Florida adding nine seats, Texas eight and Arizona five. That doesn't address Sen. Reid's concern directly, but it is indicative of the continuing seismic shift in American politics.
The Progressive Policy Institute of the Democratic Leadership Council says the trend is rooted in a severe "parent gap." Married couples with children are deeply troubled by what Democrats hold dear, including their coziness with Hollywood and its relentless war against moral standards.
The PPI notes President Bush trounced Sen. John Kerry by 20 percentage points in 2004 among married couples with children, and warns that Democratic candidates will not fare better in national elections until they distance themselves from their culturally malignant elements. "Parents have a beef with popular culture. As they see it, the culture is getting ever more violent, materialistic, and misogynistic, and they are losing their ability to protect their kids from morally corrosive images and messages," said the study's author, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead.
However, it's unlikely the party will cut ties with Hollywood anytime soon because it has been hijacked by its left wing, as the ascension of Howard Dean illustrates. And a recent Pew Research Center survey of Chairman Dean's acolytes found that nearly four in 10 have no religious affiliation, more than nine in 10 support homosexual "marriage" and eight in 10 see themselves as liberals (and liberals who admit to their liberalism usually are socialists or worse). They are light years from the mainstream, and talk of morals, religion and personal responsibility repulses them.
Sensing the growing parent gap, some poll-watching Democrats have been trying to sing the family-values song, but have been horribly off key because they support so many causes and doctrines -- abortion, same-sex marriage, welfare, progressive taxation, socialized medicine, judicial activism, etc. -- that incrementally chip away at marriage and the culture and make the already difficult task of raising children properly that much more arduous.
That leaves leftist Democrats with choices: genuinely embrace the values important to couples with children, which will never happen; or continue their war against marriage, a campaign that traces its history from liberalized divorce and the counterculture of the 1960s to today's the push for homosexual "marriage."
If one follows the logic of supporters, it won't be long until government sanctions and subsidizes all manner of man-woman-child-animal relationships.
Therefore, their best chance of regaining political power in Washington requires them to continue to marginalize marriage. It explains a lot.
So true.
I am surprised that the dems, for example, haven't started a campaign to have us drive on the left, it seems to be one of the few US traditions/institutions not currently under attack by the crapweasel progressives.
I would love to see more analysis why Dem vote Dem, broken down by State, perhaps with a list of top 3 priorities. With the judicial activism overturning the will of the people on many issues, it's hard to rely on what people want vs what people get. When no state is a lock for a party, and the people are ignored, the judiciary becomes the domestic architects of our future, and politicians are not inclined to listen, nor held accountable in any serious sense.
I think this article overstates.
As the blues lose population to the red states...the red states will become less red...
It has certainly happended in Maine and Vermont...and NH is fading fast!!
That is the simply the most civil description of Liberal values that I have read to date!
But,in stating that they are "light years from the main stream", some commie lib's may argue the statement as evidence that they are indeed true visionaries. You know; like Teddy Kennedy, or Osama Ben laden.
We are a Republic, NOT a Democracy.
That's happening already. 1) from activist judges legislating from the bench, and 2)by corrupt "representatives" pushing multiple social agendas.
Yes, we ARE supposed to be a Represenative Republic!!
You have a point on the judges. However, the representatives are elected by you and I. We have nobody to blame but ourselves when the representatives don't, well, represent us.
Which means that those blue states will shift to red.
Because the more people you pack into an area, the more they think like liberals . . .
And the more will the Republican party continue its slide to the left to get their votes.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
"As the blues lose population to the red states...the red states will become less red...
It has certainly happended in Maine and Vermont...and NH is fading fast!!"
It's certainly a trend in Nevada.
I confused red and blue again (I keep associating red with commies, and so the source of my confusion).
I meant the following in my earlier post, above.
Providing other things being equal . . .
Those red (so-called conservative) states will shift to blue (liberal states) as they gain population--no matter the politics of the newcomers.
Because the more people you pack into an area, the more they think like liberals . . .
And the more will the Republican party continue its slide to the left to get their votes.
Conversely, states that lose population will tend to become more conservative.
I confused red and blue.
See my post, Number 13, above.
Well, in a way..
If judges overturn what the legislature does as well, then the problem is with liberal activism. Our reps we can only turn out with majority vote..... I don't blame myself one bit that LA, CA elects LaRaza assh*les into office. And, I have no control over who votes, illegal voting, fraud votes, ...so as a soon to be former Californian, I don't blame myself a bit. We are simply outvoted by illegals/fraud/ and liberal gimme population in LA and SF... I can't breed myself voters to combat this. I can import voters to combat this. So... CA will become more and more BLUE, by virture of anti-liberal/anti-socialist, anti-communist, and pro-business flight. We'll go eslewhere, and let the blood suckers, suck their own blood.
here is an interesting observation: around the world the countries, cities with the least amount of children are the most leftist. take USA- san fran has fewer childrren per 100,000 inhabitants than any city in the country. take euro countries- the most lefty- germany and france- are actually losing population (except for islamic growth).
been thinking- what is it about not having children that makes you a leftist? or vice versa. its something deep.
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