The Democrat Party is in Need of an Old-Fashioned Purge

Guest Piece by Gregg Updike The fundamental problem with the Democratic Party is that for decades they have been actively recruiting every disparate minority group they can find or create – most of whom have an axe to grind – and have tried to cobble together a majority of minorities as a means to win elections against America’s white majority. There was an article in a major newspaper, circa 2011, during the “One’s” ramp up for reelection in 2012 reflecting this strategy.

The DNC, Obama, and the MSM, after successfully guilting white America into voting for a “historic” (half) Black president who was “articulate and bright and clean”, realized they were in trouble after they overwhelmingly lost the House in 2010. This was the direct result of ramming his unpopular and entirely partisan passed Obamacare down America’s collective throat, and resulted in the emergence of the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party, and other anti-Obama organizations.

Obama, having lost much of the warm and fuzzy good-will that swept him into the presidency, and political capital, made the decision to jettison the idea of appealing to the country’s white majority middle class (the people who Hillary Clinton would later describe as an “irredeemable basket of deplorables”). The Dems essentially said they are no longer interested in, nor will they any longer court the white male blue-collar union base that was the strength of the Dem party since FDR. Presently the Democratic coalition is a motley collection of diverse (root word of diverse is divide) groups which has no core unifying glue or message to hold it together except that Trump and Republicans suck, and must be politically defeated.

This cultivated strategy is beginning to backfire on them in a spectacular manner. Their radical groups are not silent obedient toadies and actually want their point of view heard, respected, and acted upon. Unfortunately for the Dems, many of these points of view are diametrically opposed to each other. Examples: Muslims are vehemently opposed to homosexually, legal immigrants and naturalized citizens are opposed to illegals getting a free ride, and big banks and capitalism are lined up against Bernie’s communism.

Meanwhile, President Trump, by displaying heretofore unseen strong common sense leadership, has exposed the fraud of the Democratic Party for all to see. He has successfully exposed them, his agenda has been beneficial for ALL Americans, and he is destroying their media and academia controlled PC thought police monopoly. That is why he is so hated by the left and the never-Trumper Republicans, and why they are working so hard to sabotage his administration and remove him from office, or make him unelectable. It has completely failed and made Trump’s reelection all but certain, especially when his potential opponents are considered.

Bottom line: The person who could unite the Democratic Party simply doesn’t exist, while Trump has been historically successful in uniting his Republican base and attracting many previously Democratic minority groups who have realized they have been used by the Democratic Party and are #Walk(ing) Away in large numbers. Consequently the DNC finds itself in quite a pickle.

Let Sanders win the nomination and then suffer a 1972 McGovern-like defeat, along with massive down ballot losses, thereby forcing the radical communists out of the party – we gave you a legitimate shot and you lost bigly; now be gone and go back the Communist Party USA and be the 3% irrelevant population splinter group that you are and have always been.

(The GOP suffered massive losses in 1974 and 1976 in the wake of Nixon’s Watergate, but rebounded by 1980 with Ronald Reagan and his coattails. Face reality, take your lumps, learn, and move on.)

Divorce your party from the idiotic Hollywood crowd – their influence is waning and they are every bit as toxic as the Clintons.

Purge the party of all the old fossilized war horses who appeal to no one, particularly the millennials. This election will help in their retirements by securing long term minority status for the Democratic Party. It is not fun to be in the minority in congress and the old guard will get out while the getting is good and retire with their millions.

Find and recruit some moderate, pragmatic, appealing, and intelligent candidates who fundamentally see the good in America as founded, and run on and actually believe in a positive pro-America agenda, as John F. Kennedy did in his 1960 campaign.

While most of the congressional old guard will willingly leave once they realize their minority party status for the foreseeable future is a reality, the young radical activists in the “Squad” and other divisive factions will need to be primaried or relegated to impotence with minor committee assignments and have their campaigns defunded by the DNC.

I realize leaders of the Democratic Party will never do this, and thus they will become more and more irrelevant, which is a good thing for America. I predict the Democratic Party brand will be irreparably damaged, and break up. When that happens, a new party will emerge with new leadership and a new message. It will no doubt be liberal, but it will be, at least at first, a reasonable counter to a more conservative Republican Party; a Republican Party which will also be forced to undergo its own metamorphosis and evolve into a genuine conservative party.

The media will also be forced to reform itself, or it will ultimately die with a viewership of only about ten percent of the country watching or believing them. Sooner or later, the outside money propping them up will dry up and they will have to compete for advertising dollars by being truthful and “fair and balanced”. To that end NPR and NPT should be defunded as they are obsolete, serve no purpose and need to be forced to stand on their own merits; taxpayers don’t need to be forced to fund a liberal-lite mouthpiece that has a smaller audience than CNN.

“Find and recruit some moderate, pragmatic, appealing, and intelligent candidates who fundamentally see the good in America as founded, and run on and actually believe in a positive pro-America agenda...”

LOL! The cognitive dissonance is strong in this one!

Um, Mr. Blackmon...those folks are called conservative patriots (nationalists) and would never be a D’rat.

The D’rat party can only wither and die, the GOP become the leftward party, and a vigorous new conservative and patriotic party arise and grow rapidly.

“a Republican Party which will also be forced to undergo its own metamorphosis and evolve into a genuine conservative party.’

It already is, and it ain’t a phony “genuine conservative” like the Never Trumpers.

It’s TRUMPS party now.

An America First, Sell it Here Make it Here, limited immigration to skills AMERICA NEEDS, increasing wages, more school choice, 50% (to start) reduction in Goobermint, Constitutional carry, Ending the endless wars Political Powerhouse with 80% support of Citizens of all stripes, colors and faiths.

I can go for that.

I predict the Democratic Party brand will be irreparably damaged, and break up. When that happens, a new party will emerge with new leadership and a new message. It will no doubt be liberal, but it will be, at least at first, a reasonable counter to a more conservative Republican Party; a Republican Party which will also be forced to undergo its own metamorphosis and evolve into a genuine conservative party.

DJT already conducted a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, pretty much moving it towards what Perot’s Reform Party had been.

Because
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)
it was inevitable that journalism would coalesce into the cartel usually called “the media.”
Because journalism is about news - departures from publicly known plan - and because plans are generally optimistic and departures from plan are ordinarily bad news, journalism is systematically negative. As all members of the journalism cartel are perfectly aware.
Despite knowing that journalists are systematically negative, the journalism cartel claims that journalists are objective. That is its “conspiracy against the public.” It is intrinsically untrue, because objectivity is an aspiration rather than a state of being. It also functions as a motive for journalists to go along with each other to avoid the charge of being “not objective, not a journalist.”
The claim that (systematically negative) journalist are objective is, de facto, a claim that negativity is objectivity. And that claim is a perfectly serviceable definition of cynicism.
But cynicism about everything is inchoate. Journalists are cynical about society. Regarding government - in a very real sense the opposite of society - journalists are naive. And that combination is the proper definition, IMHO, of socialism.
The 1964 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision was unanimous - but according to Justice Scalia it was wrongly decided. Scalia asserted that the First Amendment was crafted to not touch the law of libel. And that in asserting that
". . . libel can claim no talismanic immunity from constitutional limitations. It must be measured by standards that satisfy the First Amendment”
Justice William Brennan and the entire Warren Court erred in Sullivan.
Republicans should be allowed to sue for libel (Democrats never have to).

Incredibly, while George McGovern was wiped out by Nixon, the ‘Rats had a net gain of 2 seats in the Senate (one of them was Joe Biden’s 3,100 vote victory over elderly incumbent J. Caleb Boggs in Delaware), and only lost a net of 12 seats in the House, still managing to elect a 243-192 majority.

So, it is not a foregone conclusion that if Bernie is the ‘Rat nominee, the GOP will win both the Senate and the House.

The biggest winner in Iowa last night though might be Joni Ernst, who would have to benefit from the Iowa Democrat Party discrediting itself.

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