Posted on 07/22/2006 6:38:42 AM PDT by A. Pole
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Well I see the Democrats have their 2006 Election slogan. Vote Democrat. We will take you back to the 1960s.
Gee maybe they should try selling this to Joe Leiberman? You know the guy the Democrats are going to throw overboard this year despite his voting 90% of the time with the Leftist Democrat Party leadership?
This all makes really amusing posutring by the various Democrat Mouthpieces, only problem is their activist base is all ready mad at them for being TOO moderate!
The Democrats will not embrace Christianity. Their abortion stance precludes this.
The Democrats will embrace progressive economics socialism, but this ideology has been refuted and is not a path to electoral success.
They search in the wilderness for a path forward, but they have neither map nor compass.
ping
We will take you back to the 1960s.
Exactly. Democrats are a tiresome oldies act, playing their hits of the past.
The Jim Crow laws and Ku Klux Klan past of the democrat party? Is that what they mean???
Well, they would like to take back any votes from the Republican Party.
Commenting on the election recount in 2,000, Pat Cadell exclaimed "The party of my grandfather has been highjacked by gangsters." True, but how and when? The Roosevelts were an old line New York family that date back to Dutch colonists in New York. They produced two presidents and dominated American politic for most of the first part of the 20th century. They travelled in a society which observed very strict norms of behavior and social responsibility. men were to be gentlemen and character was important in a world where personal references mattered. Presidential candidates were chosen by conventions, famous for meetngs of leaders in smoke filled rooms. The famous coalition of Franklin Roosevelt was not just a coalition of interest groups, it was mainly an urban majority, and that required making deals with the devil, the bosses of the big city machines. It was the Pendergast machine that put forth Truman, Kennedy in Boston, Tammany in New York City, later Daley in Chicago. Franklin Roosevelt could overrule and minimize this rabble. Later they took over.
In Boston, Joe Kennedy first built a fortune illegally rum running during prohibition. He built a powerful political machine based on patronage. But he could not buy respectability or win acceptance in mainline Boston society. He was like Rhett Butler trying to make it in Charleston in Gone with the Wind, without the flamboyant wife. Roosevelt couldn't stomach his crass pushiness, so he made him ambassor to England to get rid of him. Kennedy devised a plan to gain the social acceptance he craved. He would subvert and undermine those institutions to get a son elected president.
First, he had to get around the power structure of the Democratic party with its bosses who met in smoke filled rooms and considered prissy subjects like character, morals, and behavior. They set out to win so many primaries that the nomination could not be denied. They also made deals with other big city bosses and union bossses who had unsavory connections the maffia underworld. So we got a president who had poor health and morals, because he had not really been vetted properly. And we got image makers who sold us a fantasy about Camelot and its brain trust of idealistic Harvard professors.
I went to Stanford in 1961, and after much reflection on what I experienced, I am convinced that this class warfare was not really about ideology. It was about social climbing a al Joe Kennedy. They were teaching a sociology that American society was controlled by WASP's and that was bad. The way to break that system was to use government. At Stanford the political science department recruited people to participate in the civil rights movement and to join the Peace Crops, a proposal that originated there. The purpose was really to divert the paths of the privileged undergraduates so that ambitious activists could get ahead. It was effective. The old order was elbowed aside, and the criminal element invaded government and industry. Fortunately, George W. Bush did not fall for it.
There's more, but that's all for now. Maybe your comments will help too.
In a nutsehll, Democrats are guilty of believing their own propaganda. If they want to fix what ails the party, they will have toi address the real truth.
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What a good idea. When you need fresh ideas and help getting elected, go back to your original inspiration--Karl Marx.
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Democrats are clueless in Washington. Abortion and the gay agenda make a suicide belt which they refuse to unbuckle. Their only wish is that the GOP will continue to FU and Bush may grant them their wish.
Along these lines, I've been thinking about the notion of The Establishment. I was born in 1960, and all my life I've been told that The Establishment was a bad thing. My understanding is that this referred to: Old Money, Prep Schools, Blue Blood, Boston Brahmin, Old White Men, Country Club people. They were what was wrong with America, they were swept away by the Hippies, and now America is a more tolerant, more diverse society in which women and blacks are no longer oppressed.
And I'm quite curious about why The Establishment got such a bad reputation. It seems to me that this changed at about the time when the young Leftists were worshiping JFK. I think of him as being wealthy, Bostonian, Harvard educated, with a wife who worn Parisian couture. So how is that anti-Establishment??
But you point in a direction where the rise of JFK and the rise of an anti-Establishment viewpoint come together. Quite interesting. I will think about this. Thanks.
What’s wrong with the Democrats? Well, they became the neo-left, and as extreme liberals, left to their own devices, they threaten the very idea of America. Democrats believes that government is better for people than people are. I believe every time the government hands down a new liberal law it leaves for the rest of us a little less freedom. Democrats believe in free speech as long as it isn't conservatives free speech. In all honestly the new Democrats have become the stalinists party.
modern Democrats seem to have forgotten that they once owned the allegiance of “the Solid South.”
One cannot "own" allegiance, it can be earned or bought,
if earned it is strong, if bought fickle.
t.
Here in Oklahoma we are having a state wide primary next Tuesday for both parties. When watching or listening to the ads for various candidates you can always tell which ones are Democrats. In their ads they never mention the party they belong to but instead describe themselves as "conservatives", "basic values Christians", etc. They know that the national image of the Democratic Party is not a vote getter in this state.
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