The Party's Over

For those confused or disgusted with this current political election, I offer these words of explanation. What we are witnessing is the death of a political party.

The present Democratic Party is peculiarly the same as when Thomas Jefferson rallied a grassroots republican revolution in opposition to the Federalists during the 1790’s. In Jefferson’s mind the Federalists had become the same as the English monarchy in their elitist sensibilities of government. To counter this development, he collected a wide assortment of grassroots groups into a republican coalition and changed the direction of the nation.

...the Jeffersonians coalesced around a set of ideas — radical notions about how society should be reorganized. These ideas were propagated less by a class of men — that is, persons tied together by common economic interests — than by a kind of man — men attracted by certain beliefs. Their common vision about the reform of politics and the liberation of the human spirit… Ideas — not interests or old loyalties or institutional identities — supplied the unity for success. [emphasis added]

Today, The Democrats have become a colation of interests in search of power, and lack any unifying ideas. Today the ideas pushing the political forum are found not among the Democrats, but rather their opposition. Fist comes the vigorous prosecution of the war against Islamic fascism that threatens freedom throughout the entire earth. Without liberty under our own Constitution the other ideas are moot.

Only then come the ideas for the continuity of the American Dream: permanent tax cuts, border control, reform of the entire method of collecting taxes (e.g. flat tax or national sales tax), protection of private property, and other such ideas that dismantle the power of the federalist government.

The contemporary Democratic Party has corrupted itself so far in its American self-loathing that it is in every sense at odds with the Constitution its elected members have sworn not only to abide by, but to protect.

The current generation of Democrats has so railed and rebelled against the “power of America” that they have spiritually joined with those sworn to destroy us. It is much like the conversation in Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot. Substitute “American” for “Russian” and the message is clear,

“Well, my fact is precisely that Russian liberalism is not an attack on the existing order of things, but an attack on the very essence of things, on the things themselves, not merely on their order, on the established order in Russia, but on Russia herself. My liberal has gone so far as to deny Russia herself; in other words, he hates his own mother and he beats her. Every Russian failure and misfortune stirs him to laughter and virtually delights him. He hates national traditions, Russian history, everything.”

“Not so long ago some of our liberals effectively took this hatred for Russia as sincere love for their country, and congratulated themselves on seeing better than others what that love should be; but now they have become more frank, and even the words ‘love for country’ have become an embarrassment to them and the whole conception has been banished and dismissed as harmful and trivial.”

An astute politico can hear Hillary Clinton screeching that she is patriotic and that she has a right to screech about having the right to disagree with the President of the United States. Or throw up as the media ponders whether it is “proper” to wear a flag pin or come out in support the troops.

The world is on a headlong descent into chaos. Do we go down with an emasculated whimper or do we stand up and fight back the status quo until the bloody end? I say we must be in the world but not of the world and desire to hear, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

The Democratic Party once was a good and faithful servant. It is a tragedy for it and for America that it has strayed so far from its roots.

Either this election or the next, they will lose an election that they think they should have won, and dissolve into a brawl about whose fault it is.

This already happened - when Reagan became Pres. and TeddieBoys hopes of becoming Pres. were dashed forever...

Teddie Boy was the Socialist's (k)night in shining armor.

Their infiltration of the democratic party had been, they thought, so successful that they would sweep into power and be strong enough to operate openly as the socialists they were.

They were thrown in disarray. By the spring of 1982, they were in full swing with a ratcheted up strategy. They held workshops across the country, under the name DSOC (Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee.)

As an investigative reporter for a state-wide paper, I infiltrated their "NO PRESS" meeting in the very shadow of our capitol dome.

The lead speaker was our state Senate Majority leader (dem.) who opened his remarks with "I, like you , am a card carrying socialist." He went on to lament that, because of their devastating set back, they would not be able to operate in the open as socialists.

The rest of the meeting - well, before it broke down - comically - in bickering and dis-organization, they laid out their agenda for now concentrating on total absorption of the democratic party, taking it over, and thus ruling as Socialists in faux-democrat clothing.

They have been totally successful.

a vote for them - make no mistake - is a vote the United SOCIALIST States of America.

On the same day as this meeting, in Detroit, two socialist organizations decided to join forces. The DSOC and the New American Movement created the DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA. Their slogan? "Help the D.S.A. change the U.S.A."

http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html

Ignore this at your/our peril

(I would like to see some ads on this theme -Opening: Zel Miller: "I didn't leave the party. The party left me." - segue into the logo for the D.S.A. - with voice = "This is where it went, Zel." - and go from there. ( I would like to see a real reporter put a mike in the face of people like Teddie/sKerry/Pelloosa etc and point blank ask: "Are you a card carrying Socialist?" (You think Peelloosa looks like a deer caught in the headlines now? Just picture her hit with this question.)

It is past time to wake the sheeple up about who nows controls and rules the once-Democratic party. Time to take off the blinders - and the gloves - we may not get another chance.

) I could supply the actual quotes from my article -

(I'd like to see half the action on this as is being given to the FR/Dixie Broody Hens crap) Here's the formula to remember:

The news media's criteria for covering a story is - a minimum of 40-45 emails on the story. The formula is: for each 1 person who contacts them about any given story, there are 1,000 interested in it.

Couldn't FR's generate 40-45 emails to the media outlets on something a little more serious than the Broody Hens?

The author is articulating something profound about the state of the modern Democratic Party but I think there are one or two and more layers of the onion which we might peel away. For example, the author concludes:

I judge this observation to be very true but there is an underlying explanation which is very revealing of the psychic state of the Democrat party which offers us both hope for his eventual healing and considerable alarm that it could ultimately be our nation's undoing. First a stipulation, I'm about to charge the Democrat party with a psychic state of mind which a critic might parallel to those open letters printed in mainstream newspapers just before our presidential elections which declare - no, which diagnose -the Republican candidate to be somehow mentally lacking. I confess I have absolutely no credentials to diagnose anyone's mental condition, much less the state of an entire political party. So I concede that what follows is my own prejudice.

Why has the modern Democratic Party "corrupted itself so far in its American self-loathing"? The author claims that the loathing has proceeded so far that the members of the party act contrary to their sworn oaths. I'm not here to argue the truth of this proposition, I assume it to be so as no doubt do virtually all of the posters on these threads because the evidence, especially arising out of the war on terror, has become so pervasive that it can no longer be dismissed. Why do Democrats loathe America so much? Are they aware that they loathe America? Are they aware that they are violating their oaths to the Constitution because of their loathing?

If you are not a poster on these threads and you do not share our virtually universal opinion about Democrats, I invite you to read this thread which alleges that a former Democrat speaker of the House, a former Democrat president of the United States of America, and a sitting Democrat Senator have all, singly or as part of a conspiracy, treacherously undermined the national security of the United States to advance their party's electoral chances!

Kennedy-KGB collaboration

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1727448/posts

I have no doubt that these three Democrats at the very same time they were undermining their country's national security actually believed they were behaving patriotically. The author cites Hillary Clinton's earsplitting screech as evidence of this. For them, white had become black, up had become down, evil had become good and good evil. The author describes this process of rationalization and ultimate distortion of reality as it occurred in Russia until every human instinct was perverted into its exact opposite meaning. I can recall writing notes to myself on a flight homeward from Moscow in which the single overwhelming reaction that I drew from what I saw was the utter, debased cynicism of the Russians.

How ironic that the author cites the perverse cynicism of the Russians as part of his description, although not necessarily an explanation, of the debased state of the Democratic Party. But the Democrat party is more than debased, worse than merely cynical, it is in a psychic state in which it can do no other. The Democrats are entrapped and they can't get out. Rare are the David Horowitzs of the world who can break free. One author has described this syndrome as being in a "psychic cage."

That author's thesis is that this psychic cage did not settle upon the psyches of Democrats by accident but was the deliberate, calculated contrivance of THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL which was established in Germany in 1923 with the funding of a millionaire, a George Soros like figure, to create the conditions to bring the Russian Revolution to Germany. He assembled a group of brilliant Jewish intellectuals and established what became known as The School for Social Research which identified those parts of society which acted to retard the coming of the glorious socialist Revolution. These intellectuals then set out systematically to "deconstruct" those impediments to communism: the family, the church, the school, the nation, capitalism, Western civilization. Coming to power in 1933, Hitler, who if nothing else could always recognize an enemy, suppressed the group as much for their Jewishness is for their philosophy which caused a kind of modern Frankfurt School diaspora into the rest of the Western world, primarily the United States and Britain. Here the refugees found remarkable influence, becoming associated with the OAS, Columbia school of journalism, Harvard, the State Department and etc. The cancer metastasized.

They took their ambitions to make the world ready for communism with them and by now they had invented some formidable weapons. To deconstruct the first impediment to communist revolution, the family, they attacked patriarchal authority and sought to substitute matriarchal authority. From there it is an easy jump to attack all authority. That was handy for the next cultural institution they wished to undermine, the church. We all know what happened here. Together, the church and school construct for us our epistemology, what we know and how we know it. If we can destroy that, we have destroyed everything and left man soulless. The author quotes Dostoevsky:

Well, my fact is precisely that Russian liberalism is not an attack on the existing order of things, but an attack on the very essence of things, on the things themselves, not merely on their order, on the established order in Russia, but on Russia herself.

We are now very nearly at nihilism. So we see today in our universities, for example, abnignation of their whole purpose and the abandonment of the scientific method, logic, or historical actuality for a so-called "critical theory." Reality means nothing, everything is relative, utterly disposable. The author of the psychic cage describes how the universities were seduced and converted before they even realized what had happened to them. One might say the same for the National Council of Churches, for example.

This phenomenon has been described with many terms besides the critical theory such as, cultural Marxism, feminism, multiculturalism etc. and they all seem to fall under the rubric of "political correctness."

I think it is important to understand how insidious is the brainwashing which found its roots in The Frankfurt School and blossomed with the boomer generation. We in the West are beginning to understand, at least intellectually, a phenomenon of Islam, it's fanatical, anti-rational, murderous-suicidal tendencies. We're beginning to see that the phenomenon is not a matter of rational choice. Interestingly, the Germans make the same argument as they outlaw Scientology claiming that it is a cult which disarms the rational powers of its victims. The Germans ought to know about these things for they learned from the masters, Hitler and Goebbels. When you succeed in tearing away every prop that lets men know what he knows and believe what he believes you have achieved what Dostoevsky has described-a psychic cage.

So this is how the modern Democratic Party got itself into its present fix, a soulless zombie. Contemporary political scientists might describe it more prosaically, a party without a core message and possessed only of a methodology and a very destructive methodology at that. I do not know whether this means that it is unlikely to get a message or that it's likely to take on any message. Is it likely in its a cynicism and nihilism to turn upon itself and destroy itself or is it likely to become dangerous and aggressive? At least we know what we are dealing with and why. We know that we cannot persuade these people with logic. We must "un--deconstruct" the psychic cage, bolt by bolt and nut by nut so that the cult-mentality becomes open to human discourse.

By way of illustration, those of us who abhor abortion often scratch our heads at the obdurancy of its defenders. We have even described it as a sacramental act in some perverse religion in an effort to explain the otherwise inexplicable. We can make no logic in the face of its ghastliness. The left is untroubled by this even to the point of condoning partial-birth abortion or screaming hysterically at the apparition of posters bearing images of aborted fetuses. We are on different planets. We must understand that these people have not just smashed the order of things, they have smashed the things themselves-as Dostoevsky said.

And so we now understand why Senator Kennedy could sell out his country's national security to advance his own march to the presidency.

The scary part of all this is that we are immersed in a war of survival against mindless, fundamentalist Islam while a political party which represents nearly half the electorate is dysfunctional.

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