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In reply to the discussion: Democrats are PUSSIES! [View all]kenny blankenship
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If Democrats and I mean the party not the voters REALLY opposed Republicans, they would be drastically different in their rhetoric. Their policies would be drastically different, too, though. But everyone would be sensible of the difference in their tone as a party. They would differ from their presently p***y selves as far as you can imagine. They have none of the fire, none of the anger and none of the motivation that comes from seeing people you loved harmed. Republicans make WAR on the Democratic Party. They make war on Democratic Party constituencies. They never cease repeating and reinforcing a narrative that presents all of America's problems as originating in the policies and attitudes of the Democrats. Whenever a Democrat wants to offer an initiative, he or she has to present it against the backdrop of this Republican narrative, a context which warns Americans that all their difficulties stem from similar Democratic proposals in the past. Democrats have no such counter-narrative that explains America's problems as the result of Republican ideology. Almost everything that has gone wrong for America stems from the "Reagan Revolution" the arrogant militarism, the ruinous defense spending that underlies that, the deregulation of finance and the consequent destruction of manufacturing and real industry on the altar of High Finance's quick billions - the list goes on and on, but Democrats as party refuse to use it. They're limp. (Perhaps they feel inhibited and impotent now because they said mee-too! for so long, they know they can't criticize the Reagan-Bush ideology without implicating themselves and their own party) Voters sense this and turn off from Democrats. They hate non-fighters even if the alternative is a party that they know acts against their interests. I don't advocate making war on the Republican Party's voting base, the way Republicans attack the Democratic base, but if there is no war against the Republican Party's ideology to match the unrelenting ferocity of the Republicans' war on Democrats, the Republicans will continue to win over the long run by default. That's all on the affective level. On a policy level, more often than not, Democrats present themselves as better Republicans, wanting the same basic things (mee-too!ism) - just promising to do a better job of it, dutifully cleaning up Republican messes, gently correcting Republican excesses. That's not good enough for a second party. That makes them the Republicans' p***y auxiliary brigade. As it stands, the Democratic Party is enacting the Republicans' tax structure and their approach to health care. Social program "reforms" are in the offing. This should be unacceptable to anyone who expects the phrase "Democratic Party" to continue to mean something historically distinct and incompatible with the Republican Party.