Posted on 02/21/2006 9:47:12 AM PST by raccoonradio
AGGGGHHHHHHH...makes me crazy.....
RANT OFF!!
The point is well illustrated in the Port brouhaha going on. It's a weird feeling to be watching TV and agreeing with Chuck Schumer.
The problem with the leftward shift in the Rat Party is that as a result, the GOP has gotten watered down by moderates who really should be Democrats, but the party is too looney for them.
Forty years too late!
That's a good point. As a conservative first, it's not good for one party to have a monopoly on all conservative principles. It makes that party lazy and less likely to pander to conservatives (I mean "pander" in a good way.)
Having a viable Democratic Party is important in a two-party system; we need a good opposition party to keep us focused. However, the Democrats seem dead set on committing political suicide.
That is unfortunately not what really happens. In truth the political establishment has been moving steadily leftward for decades under the influence of the mass medias, and not just in this country but throughout the West. The only Republican President of the last 50 years who has been even vaguely conservative was Reagan, and even he didn't do squat domestically.
You are confusing the Democrats with some of their moonbat supporters.
Political parties exist to win elections and exercise political power. If the voters change their views then the parties will also change.
For example, George Wallace was an outright racist for much of his career. When it became clear to him that racism was a political loser he famously apologized and said "I was wrong". He won his last election to Governor of Alabama with significant black support -- something that would have been unthinkable years before. That's becuase George Wallace was a politician, not a racist. He adopted racist views when it served him politically and dropped them when they didn't.
The Democrats -- what's left of them -- will eventually come around, especially after their "Old Guard" dies off. Meanwhile, notice how politicians like Shrillary and Carter's kid are still holding "pro-choice" positions, but are personally "anti-abortion" (their terms of course). That's because they know that abortion is not as popular as it used to be. That's due, IMHO, to the winning of hearts and minds on this issue, not legal proceedings or elections. Their ridiculous straddle won't work, but I suspect that the Democratic Party will soon not be so pro-abortion as they are now.
The US system is set up for two parties. When one goes too far off the reservation, something happens. I hope what happens is that Dems gain their senses, and become the Joe Lieberman party, and stop being the Barbara Boxer party. If they do, they may pick off a lot of voters who are nominally GOP, and make a 2 party system safe for America again. Right now, it's not safe to vote Dem, they are led by the 20 percent of the country that is anti-American or post-American.
You make a very good point, which is that the media propaganda machine, in cahoots with liberal political elites, work very hard to move the public views leftward. When they think the public is ready, they launch a new policy. They break down American society in stages--tearing down religion and culture and marriage, etc. We need a counter-reaction to take society back to policies that are better for society, that make us more cohesive, healthier and freer.
I agree, but please get rid of the liers, cheats, as*holes and drunks. Oh sh*t there may not be anyone left.
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