Posted on 11/03/2017 1:46:34 PM PDT by Rummyfan
On Thursday, Politico published two helpful reminders of the Democrats' existence. Both stories reinforced the idea that, despite the ongoing tumult in the Republican Party, it is actually the Democratic Party that has been most disrupted by the realignment of American politics along class lines. Not that the Democrats, or Washingtonians in general, seem aware of this fact.
The first article, by Donna Brazile, described a secret arrangement by which Hillary Clinton exercised control over the Democratic National Committee months before voting began in the Democratic presidential primary. "The agreement—signed by Amy Dacey, the former CEO of the DNC, and Robby Mook with a copy to Marc Elias—specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party's finances, strategy, and all the money raised," Brazile wrote. The fix was in, as early as August 2015. Or at least it seemed to be. What Clinton and the DNC brass did not anticipate was the phenomenon of Bernie Sanders, whose spirited challenge to Clinton was fueled by small dollar contributions from voters who could not afford to book her for a speech.
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Sanders would have lost even more convincingly than ILLary.
Out of touch with a lot of working and middle class people is not a good thing.
It’s citizens for sovereignty vs Cheap Labor Express
The only class that I can see they belong to is the phony, dishonest class.
They had to suck it up and vote for the Ex-Mother-In-Law or the worst English Teacher in High School vs "the Cool Guy" that had it stolen from him, no wonder they had no enthusiasm, the Michigan primary said it all where he beat her.
Had they gone with Crazy Bernie in the General, there are those way above my pay grade that believe like I do that he might have beat then Candidate Trump. He was that well liked amongst the youngins'...
It was in G-d's hands, not ours...
The Elites are the self described elite of the Political, academic, education, business, financial, media, sports figures and entertainment fields
After the 2012 election, Obama partisans were openly bragging about the New Democrats and how they were throwing the middle class under the bus
The middle class and union workers were caught unawares by the Progressive realignment of the Democrat Party in 2012 and most still are.
In 2016 enough had caught on to Trump a victory and brief chance to build a new coalition before the Democrats PC curtain came down on them
On a thread here back in 2009, one of my posts stated:"Accommodating tyranny by failing to call it what it is is dangerous
. We need a leader whose words are strong and courageous and based in the principles of our Declaration of Independence. American citizens need to wake up to the counterfeit ideas and false "hopes" offered by politicians who use "promises," just as the rest of us use "currency."
They buy votes with "promises" in order to gain power to themselves and their ilk. Then, when "hopes" are dashed, "the people" they have promised to help (the naive, the poor, the ignorant--even the "educated" who are ignorant of liberty vs. tyranny) find themselves enslaved, working for those who have purchased their power in the most despicable manner--by offering "hope and change." Thus it has ever been.
The people who founded America were not so "dumbed down." Hear two of them:
"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle [usurpation of power] and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much . . . to forget it." - James Madison
" . . . nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the penshioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, lusury, foppery, selfishness, meanness and downright venality swallow up the whole society." - John Adams
Further, it was not just the founding leaders who were well-informed about their constitution and approaching threats to its protections. By the Year 1830, when the French jurist Tocqueville traveled America, he wrote admiringly of the citizenry, observing that even the backwoodsman was far more well-read and informed than those in other parts of the world, and that they understood their Constitution, and had with them a Bible and a newspaper.
Sadly, beginning in the mid-20th Century, our "government" schools removed the ideas of liberty from the nation's textbooks, largely under the guise of a counterfeit idea of "separation of church and state," and the citizenry is uninformed as to the difference between tyranny and liberty. Today, with all modern means of communication, Americans possess little understanding of threats to their liberty and, thus, risk losing it to charlatans whose only goal is power."
Fortunately, we seem to have forced something of a disruption on the path to tyranny, at least for a time.
The Republican elites are just as out of touch with the common people as the Democrats.
The Trump revolution was a defeat for both.
Democrats came close - the plan was to flood the country will millions of illegals and millions more 3rd world losers to drag down the middle class. Dems got too happy too soon - if they had waited a few years until illegals were citizens they might have gotten away with dumping the middle class...
And the call the Republicans "the stupid party?"
Democrats can be summarized into two categories: the elite and the government (taxpayer-funded ) dependent.
If you ask me, it was Hillary’s criminality that people recognized and Trumps vocalization of Voter fraud scared some of the players off — even on down ticket races.
The narcissistic self righteous bitch with no personality lost because of the email scandal on top of all the other scandals and the cherry on top was the video of her collapsing into the van.
And , add to it unhinged commentary, such as her screeching “why aren’t I 50 points ahead”, and the basket of deplorables statement. At such times she comes across as an unhinged liberal. Which does not gain any support in middle America.
the RATs are the most disparate party of losers and malcontents on the planet that wouldn't pizz on each other if they were on fire except on election day...
“Sanders would have lost even more convincingly than ILLary.”
I’m not so sure. The Beast did amazingly good despite all crap in her past (and present).
As it is, we’ll never know, but one thing I REALLY DOING is trolling the Left and telling them Sanders would have smoked Trump and would be president, except for the Democrats RIGGING the primaries for The Beast.
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