If Its Bad For America, Its Good For The Democrats (The Rats' Anti-American Sickness Alert)

Townhall.com ^ | 08/14/2007 | Dennis Prager

[goldstategop]

ne of the two major political parties of the United States has linked all its electoral hopes on domestic pathologies, economic downturns and foreign failure.

It is actually difficult to name any positive development for America that would benefit the Democratic Party's chances in a national election.

Name almost any subject, and this unhealthy pattern can be discerned.

If African Americans come to believe that America is a land of opportunity in which racism has been largely conquered, it would be catastrophic for the Democrats. The day that most black Americans see America in positive terms will be the day Democrats lose any hope of winning a national election. Whatever one believes about the extent of racism in America, one cannot deny that the Democrats need black Americans to feel victimized by racism. Contented black Americans spell disaster for the Democratic Party.

If women marry, it is bad for the Democratic Party. Single women are an essential component of any Democratic victory. Unmarried women voted for Kerry by a 25-point margin (62 percent to 37 percent), while married women voted for President Bush by an 11-point margin (55 percent to 44 percent). According to a pro-Democrat website, The Emerging Democratic Majority, "the 25-point margin Kerry posted among unmarried women represented one of the high water marks for the Senator among all demographic groups."

After women marry, they are more likely to abandon leftist views and to vote Republican. And if they then have children, they will vote Republican in even more lopsided numbers. The bottom line is that when Americans marry, it is bad for the Democratic Party; when they marry and make families, it is disastrous for the party.

If immigrants assimilate, it is not good for Democrats. The Democratic Party has invested in Latino separatism. The more that Hispanic immigrants come to feel fully American, the less likely they are to vote Democrat. The liberal notion of multiculturalism helps Democrats, while adoption of the American ideal of e pluribus unum (out of many, one) helps Republicans. That is one reason Democrats support bilingual education -- it hurts Hispanic children, but it keeps them from full assimilation -- and oppose making English America's official language.

Concerning the economy, the same rule applies. The better Americans feel they are doing, the worse it is for Democrats. By almost every economic measure (the current housing crisis excepted), Americans are doing well. The unemployment rate has been at historically low levels and inflation has been held in check, something that rarely accompanies low unemployment rates. Nevertheless, Democrats regularly appeal to class resentment, knowing that sowing seeds of economic resentment increases their chances of being elected.

The most obvious area in which this rule currently applies is the war in Iraq. The Democrats have put themselves in the position of needing failure in Iraq in order to win the next election. And again, perceptions matter more than reality. Even if America is doing better in the war, what matters most for the Democrats are Americans' perceptions of the war. The worse the stories from Iraq, the better for Democrats.

That helps to explain why the mainstream media, who ache for a Democratic victory, feature stories of wounded American soldiers, grieving families of killed soldiers and atrocity stories -- such as the apparently fictitious story printed in the New Republic. But they almost never feature stories about military heroism and altruism. Americans read and watch far more stories about soldiers who commit atrocities than about soldiers who commit heroic actions and who show love to Iraqi civilians.

The list is almost endless. Thus, when pro-American foreign leaders -- such as Nicolas Sarkozy in France -- are elected, even that is not good for the Democrats. The more the Democrats can show that America is hated, the more the Democrats can argue that we need them in order to be loved abroad.

Undoubtedly, some Democrats might respond that the same thesis could be written if a Democrat were in the White House and the Republicans were out of power. But that is not at all the case. First, there is no equivalent list of bad things happening to America that benefits Republicans. Second, everything written here about the Democrats -- except about the Iraq War, which was not taking place then -- could have been written when Democrat Bill Clinton was president.

I am not saying that in their hearts all Democrats want black America to regard America as a racist society, or want Hispanics to remain unassimilated, or Americans to feel economically discontented, or fewer families to be formed, or America to lose in Iraq, or foreign nations to hate us.

But what most Democrats want in their hearts is not the issue. The issue is that if Democrats want to win, they can do so only if bad things happen to America.

[Kaslin]

Thanks for the ping

[ballplayer]

This only proves that the democrats have been successful over the years in implementing the Communist strategy of creating Chaos and confusion and then coming in on their white horse of Government control of everything . Whitaker Chambers wrote in “WITNESS” that he was leaving the winning side, Communism ,and going to the losing side Freedom .To bad not enough people read the book ,the strategy is there for all to see . Problem is we are now living it

[Edit35]

We lost the popular vote in 2000 and only won by 3-1/2 million votes in 2004.

Call me conspiratorial, but I truly believe that in 2000, (prior to the public's awareness of dimpled chads and inner city automatic 'block' votes) the Democrats swiped several million votes from the GOP nationwide.

Just look at the shenanigans that happened in Florida, and transpose that across the entire nation.

Here in Philly, I recall reading in a very credible newspaper that more Democratic votes were case in 2000 than there were registered Democrats citywide.

Heck, the "Republican" poll watcher in many heavily union districts are simply Democrats who play along to allow cheating.

By time 2004 rolled around, Rove and the GOP lawyers had a network that more closely watched the individual polls.

[alwaysconservative]

Excellent article; thanks for posting it!

[zot]

This article is absolutely correct. To Democrats, America is the enemy, and it shows.

[no dems]

Ref. my Post #17: “Victory” is a relative term in that sense. What would be “perceived” as a victory by the American people would be the Dems worst nightmare.

[Borges]

The 1798 Sedition laws made it illegal to “write, print, utter, or publish anything critical of the President or Congress.” Is that what you want?

[California Desert Rat]

What I want is law (and its enforcement) that distinguishes between dissent and treason. The latter is profoundly undermining the fights against Islam and alien entry into the U.S., just as it undermined our fight against Communism and led to the loss of Vietnam 35 years ago. The worst of it is that the current wave of treason is being committed by individuals who are happy to hop in bed with our enemies. The harm this creates is simply intolerable during wartime.