What do you expect with a party like this?
Posted on 10/22/2007 5:29:06 AM PDT by vietvet67
The Democratic Party hasn't just taken over the title of The Stupid Party, as Professor James W. Ceaser characterizes it in his much-admired article of the same name in The Weekly Standard. Professor Ceaser insightfully argues that today's Democratic Party is what it is because of philosophical diffidence readily exploited by the bullying of a "network of techno-thugs," all Leftists. But his erudite argument confines itself to the realm of ideas.
In the world of facts on the ground, the Democratic Party is also The Failed Party. The larger truth is that liberalism, as a governing philosophy, is a spent force. Its failures are manifest, and those failures started to be evident in the 1960s.
Professor Ceaser characterizes the convulsions experienced by the Democratic Party in the 1960s as "tragic, in that it involved the fall of something worthy, however flawed." Scruffy student radicals, barbarians that breached the Democrats' gates, did so, according to the professor, because liberalism lacked a "firm theoretical foundation."
This foundational weakness is attributed to the discrediting of the idea that progress is inevitable, and that "social intelligence" could be smartly applied to nudge progress along. In other words, absent the fanciful notions that progress is a given and that government, dressed up as "social intelligence," could boost progress, liberals were unmoored and open to the challenges of Tom Hayden and others in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), whose fealty to the Socialist Ideal and anti-Americanism made accommodations with the liberal establishment unthinkable.
The professor's argument that the New Left brought down liberalism misses the other story. The leftist enemy within played an important hand, but the failure of liberal governance and the developing critique of liberalism by conservatives were great factors in the unraveling of the dominant liberal consensus.
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That was my thought as well.
Then it occurred to me: The level of knowledge and understanding of American voters is generally very low. The Dems have failed, but many voters just don't know it.
Especially now that we find out to be a COMPASSIONATE conservative means that we invite in the rest of the world's labors so the economy of some will be maintained. They forget history so quickly, because there will be a BACKLASH on the magnitude we have NO ability to fund when the cheap laborers demand back pay.
I must disagree with the premise - the REPUBLICANS are the Stupid Party, mainly because they cannot complete the defeat of the Evil Party, which has such a bankrupt set of policies, and such morally bankrupt leaders, that they shouldn’t even exist as anything more organized than the Mafia.
They don’t care. It ain’t their money and the more they spend, the more comes in.
Maybe we should just drive down the road and throw it out the window. Pretty soon, the way the economy is going, the dollar will have no value anyway.
Masquerading their failures (with the connivance of the MSM) counts almost as success to me.
They retain power no matter what.
Kudos to John McCain at last night’s Republican debate for repeatedly reminding people that:
“Hillary is a liberal Democrat and I am a conservative Republican.”
This message needs to be pounded home by whoever wins the Republican nomination. (And if it isn’t a conservative Republican, we’re in trouble.)
Too bad we didn't arm the South Koreans better, before we abandoned them in 1949.
The Russians trained and equipped an army in the North, withdrew, and challenged the U.S. to do likewise.The South Koreans and the U.S. State Department wanted the American troops to stay, but the GAROA funds expired on June 20, 1949, and the U.S. Army had no funds to keep the troops there. They were withdrawn.
Most everyone agrees that had the U.S. troops remained, there would have been no war. U.S. troops remained in West Germany and Communist East Germany did not invade. Clearly, the Korean War could have been prevented by an adequate peacetime defense budget.
For most US citizens, the socialist appeal of: vote for me and I will get you someone else's money, and also get someone to pay for your medical bills, will trump the conservative opposition. - tom
The Weekly Standard article by Professor Ceaser:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910756/posts
For now.
Look at what it takes to get them elected now as opposed to 30 years ago. Today's Democrat has to pander to every nut case out there and continually try to offer ever more difficult to implant and sustain social welfare programs. There is no fundament consistent theory of liberalism. That has long ago given way to trying to appease the numerous special inerests groups. Like a giant ponzi scheme sooner or later it all collapses.
This applies to the Republican party as well. Recently, the GOP has started to back off its conservative principals in favor of appealing to special interest groups. The recent immigration bill debacle illustrates this point. No true conservative can be in favor of illegal immigration, but many so-called conservative leaders attempted to cram it down our throats in an attempt to appease big business and other special interest groups.
But Republicans controlled both houses in the 80th Congress (1947-49) which includes one of your mentioned years so you can't blame Truman entirely.
| Republicans | Democrats | |
| House | 246 | 188 |
| Senate | 51 | 45 |
It's interesting that the Republicans also controlled Congress from '94 and helped Clinton spend the "peace dividend" and slash our military.
Harry "The Buck Stops Here" Truman could have been a man....like Bush... and fought to keep the troops in S. Korea.
Instead, he slashed the defense budget and withdrew the troops.
The guiding philosophy of today's liberalism is anti-Americanism. Why? Because liberalism was confronted -- and defeated by -- "Tom Hayden and others in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)", who were essentially (if not actually) Communists -- and, thus, enemies of America.
That is how the enemies of America came to be running one of the two major parties in the country.
Bush hasn't abandoned Iraq, like "Give 'em Hell, Harry" Truman abandoned S. Korea in 1949.
Truman didn’t abandon South Korea and that is why there is a South Korea today.
Yes, and actually it is the GOP which is the Stupid Party and the Dems who are the Evil Party. The Dems are not stupid just horridly wrong and evil in their policies. The GOP will not unite to beat the Hildabeast and get some lower ticket GOPers elected. They take stances that offend the BASE. Now that is stupid.
Yes!!!
It's apparent that Truman realized his mistake in pulling out the troops, since he sent troops back.
In June of 1950, he said he was going to send Americans back to S. Korea to fight a "police action" against "bandits." (The President’s News Conference of June 29, 1950
"Police action" was a bit of an understatement.
2,849 Americans died in the first month of the "police action."
Close to 8,000 Americans died in the first 3 months .
Winning back S. Korea was deadly work.
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