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Posted on 08/10/2025 7:50:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“Because they can no longer distinguish between fantasy and reality, they are too crazy to lead this country, and Americans know it.” —Sasha Stone on the Democratic Party.
In case you’re wondering why the Democratic Party is in a death spiral, it is the proportionate response to the damage they have done to American culture and politics. You might think that they fell haplessly into error, but their turn to Marxian idealism was a cover for a matrix of hustles and rackets to make up for a void of any sane political program.
Coming into the 21st century, our country was beset by looming decline. Our industrial base was going, going, gone, and with it millions of well-paying blue-collar jobs, the Democratic Party base. It was replaced by a so-called “financialized economy,” which was sanitized language for sets of swindles and frauds allowed to operate in the de-regulated banking system, in concert with the politicized Federal Reserve and crooked Congressional interests — you notice how many politicians paid $175-K a year somehow acquired multi-million-dollar fortunes?
What mainly grew in this period was government and things that fed off of it, such as the war industries, computer tech allied with the Intel gang, and especially the burgeoning universe of government-sponsored non-profit advocacy orgs, which became the jobs program for otherwise unemployables churned out of higher education, a racket that fed on federal loan guarantees. It was in the racketeering ecosystem that billionaires such as George Soros and Bill Gates could use their fortunes to advance their own personal obsessions through webs of non-governmental orgs (NGOs) to influence public affairs.
By 2016, that was really all that the Democratic Party had left. It was the source of their money and their power. They also had the accumulated political capital of race advocacy, starting with the civil rights crusades of the 1960s. After our victory over manifest evil in World War Two, the Jim Crow system had to go, or else America could not pretend to lead the so-called “free world.”
By some paradoxical alchemy of government policy and human nature, the civil rights campaign eventually produced a larger and more intractable “underclass” than existed before. This baffled liberal idealists who had expected a new era of brotherhood and equality. They could only account for it by “structural racism,” and the Marxian trope of “oppressors-and-victims” fit into that scaffold perfectly. It lured them into Marxian “praxis” generally, which by then was already failing everywhere else in the world it had been tried as “communism.”
One way to counter “structural racism” was to declare a new ethos of “multiculturalism,” meaning each ethnic or racial group could behave according to its own particular standards and values. It was like waving a magic wand to make failure disappear and it worked through the 1990s, (which happened to be the fattest years of cheap oil production in America). The trouble with multiculturalism was that it negated the thing that had held America together through vicissitudes such as the Great Depression and World War Two: The American common culture, the thing that belonged to everyone.
The MAGA movement has largely been an effort to reconstruct an American common culture, a consensus of values and behaviors we can all agree on. The Democratic Party opted to oppose that — a poor choice. In fact, they apparently viewed that effort as an existential threat to the hustles and rackets that were sustaining the party. For instance, the jobs program for otherwise unemployable college grads who styled themselves as “activists” working for NGOs under the umbrella of USAID.
This was the party’s army of influencers, organizers, ward-heelers, and ballot-harvesters, laboring on behalf of the “victims of oppression.” Quite a few of them resided in Academia, where they cultivated a whole lexicon of arcane, gnostic, crypto-Marxian ideology aimed not just at opposing the recovery of a common culture, but destroying whatever remnants of it remained.
The catch was: they didn’t believe in “social justice” or “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” That was just a smokescreen of verbiage over their race hustle, which means extorting money, unearned advantages, and status dishonestly. Thus was DEI birthed. And, with it, colossal frauds of “victimhood” such as the beatification of George Floyd and a long line of similar “justice-involved” cases that generated an impressive revenue flow for the Democrats.
That revenue flow and its utility for holding power was all they had left in 2024. It explains the empty symbolism of running Kamala Harris for president. Now, the money flow is gone and so is the party’s power and perhaps its last remaining reason for existence: the maintenance of its own power. Notice that the Democrats can’t even advocate for the return of USAID, now that it has been unmasked as rife with financial fraud and crime.
There is surely a need for an opposition party to any in-party, which happens to be Mr. Trump’s Republicans at the moment, if only because power corrupts. You can see the outline of what that new opposition party might be: a party of re-localization, of small business and small farmers, of traditional towns as opposed to still-rampant and malignant suburban sprawl. Some related issues already belong to MAGA, such as smaller government, the protection of privacy, respect for the Bill of Rights — but these would be implicit in the restoration of an American common culture, a set of values and standards of behavior that both parties in a two-party system can subscribe to.
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James Howard Kunstler ping
Wow.
while we can all hope, but pure evil never dies and it never rests.
In a sane world, the Democrat party would be reformulating and reorganizing. This is not a sane world. The American public is filled with the indoctrinated, and the just plain stupid. I live in the city that I grew up in. In the old days, this city was solidly Republican, well run, and envied by neighboring communities. Today, this city is fully Democrat with more than hints of communists in our midst. A Republican couldn’t be elected dog catcher in this city. I see no cracks in the new monolithic Democrat city government.
That is my frame of reference.
Outstanding! Thanks for posting this.
Bkmk
Excellent summary of the fraud and corruption we’ve been living in. Couldn’t agree more!
They’re gonorrhea.
I haven’t set any bookmarks in a while, but that one is worth it.
That is what we need to destroy. We need multiple parties, to make it harder to consolidate power in a uni-party. Musk's Freedom Party can help in that regard, but the MFP is not viable for long. The MFP seems to be formed mostly to push for more foreign workers to displace Americans.
Recall DJT’s first term. Recall the number of moles/traitors he ended up with in his staff.
Now, listen to individual Demos trying to sound like normies. There are some, just like there are some Republicans who are not Rinos. But, these sane Demos will have to have a staff — and the staff will be infested with wokies like BeijingBiden’s was. So, no matter how normal a Demo might try and sound like, everything he/she touches will be corrupted.
Trust none of them.
I agree with you.
In addition, the Dems cheated in the census to assign number of representatives by state, they cheated in four tight senate races in 2024 and a couple in 2022. They tossed us Trump for four years but will be back.
The catch was: they didn’t believe in “social justice” or “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
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Good article but I do think there are lots of true believers on the left. They are driven by sincere moral passion, as wrongheaded as they are.
And it's not just in the Democrat party...
Death spiral?!?
No.
They are no longer concerned with policy or sounding like they believe in anything connected to this earth.
They have turned their focus solely and completely onto rigging their way to power. Absolute power is “our democracy” which is their democracy. In their democracy, they are in charge and you obey.
They thought they had it rigged. The game was over. Oops. That is why they are going apoplectic at Trump re-doing the census and Texas re-districting.
Coming into the 21st century, our country was beset by looming decline. Our industrial base was going, going, gone, and with it millions of well-paying blue-collar jobs, the Democratic Party base. It was replaced by a so-called “financialized economy,” which was sanitized language for sets of swindles and frauds allowed to operate in the de-regulated banking system, in concert with the politicized Federal Reserve and crooked Congressional interests — you notice how many politicians paid $175-K a year somehow acquired multi-million-dollar fortunes?
Per the Agenda 21, which GHWB signed in 1994, but there is a bigger picture than that, which comes back to organizing principles.
It's interesting that Mr. Kunstler cites the race hustle without including the GLBTQ+ sex hustle, which is far broader and has far more serious long-term cultural consequences that will be much harder to reverse.
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That's rather begging the question.
Let's see the results of the Virginia statewide elections this year, before we get ahead of ourselves.
There are some on the left that have openly admitted that the “Green Energy” scam was never about climate change. It was always about gaining control of the means of production.
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