> The Democrats are no longer the majority party.
> Is this the year they'll finally admit it?
And will the various loose parts flying in close formation
stay in the Party if the Party does admit it?
The Democrats rely on a spectrum of voters whose
interests are far from mutual.
AARP victims,
alternative lifestylists,
America haters,
Bush haters not in any other category,
Clintonitas,
Communists (card carrying, but smart-voting),
crooked CEOs (some of them, anyway),
dictionary vandals (marriage re-definers),
felons (in or out of the slammer),
government workers (excluding military),
greens (card carrying, but smart-voting),
human haters not in any other category,
impressionable students,
inhalers and non-inhalers,
islamiscists,
Libertarians not actually interested in liberty,
legacy media employees,
minorities (gullible only),
NEA,
one-worlders (universal servitude),
pacifists (violent variant only),
professional protesters,
raw power seekers not in any other category,
trial lawyers,
second-amendment haters,
sex offenders,
Socialists (card carrying, but smart-voting),
starving artists,
unions,
university professors, and
welfare moochers
They only hang together because the Dems sometimes win.
The party's fortunes have been in a steady decline since
Clinton took over, and if 2004 is a landslide for Bush,
the glue is going to fail.
They're only in it for the power, and once that's seen as
out of reach, they'll go play elsewhere.
And all other blacks,
The dem party is actually a coalition of smaller groups who join together to defeat the evil conservatives. Alas, when you base your whole platform on so-called marginalized people and issues, the rest of us americans in the normal world just can't relate. And slowly the coalition starts to crumble as each interest grabs for whatever crumb falls to the floor.
You have nicely outlined America's enemies within. The Democrats represent the people who should technically be interned for the duration of the current conflict - for national security as well as for their own protection should we suffer another terrorist strike.
pro choicers
A very flawed analysis because incomplete, which you have gone a ways to correct.
The analysis is flawed because it is written from the perspective of an economic conservative and fails to recognize the ugly truth that in American politics, all politics are not local, or economic (i.e. entreprenuial), but enthnic.
Any analysis of American political trends is idle so long as it omits the effect of black and hispanic block voting, as this analysis has done. No matter that it makes us conservative, entreprenurial, white, suburbanites feel good about the future, we, sadly, are not the future.
As the hispanics go, so goes the nation.