Posted on 04/28/2008 2:32:49 AM PDT by Aristotelian
I don't want to sound too optimistic, but it appears that, in a year when the Democrats were supposed to make their triumphant re-entry into Presidential politics, we may be witnessing the final demise of the New Deal.
The Pennsylvania primary was a clincher. Obama has two constituencies -- African Americans and college-educated liberals. They're both passionate bloc voters and will turn out in droves. But their numbers are limited. They'll give Obama Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Mississippi, Illinois, and maybe California and Oregon, but that will be about it.
Hillary's votes come from the Democrats' other constituency -- blue-collar workers, Catholics, and people without a college education. Catholics rejected Obama by 70 percent. That's scary. Catholics have been a core constituency for the Democrats since the days of Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion. If they drift over to the Republicans -- as they were doing under Ronald Reagan -- there's very little left in the Democrats' portfolio.
I've just been reading Amity Shlaes's The Forgotten Man, a revisionist history of the New Deal. It's a wonderful effort and makes it clear that, although the Roosevelt Coalition was the greatest single voting bloc in American history, it was also cobbled together from very disparate elements.
Most important, it was led, for and aft, by East Coast intellectuals and university professors. The New Deal was hatched in academia and among left-wingers who had made pilgrimages to the Soviet Union. But they had the people on their side. The Republicans had messed things up hideously and there wasn't any reason not to try something new. Herbert Hoover caved to the Republican Midwest-and-manufacturing coalition to pass Smoot-Hawley and what could have been just a bad downturn became the Great Depression.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Tucker concludes that the Democrats have now whittled down to two constituencies -- African Americans and liberal intellectuals.
Most important is the author's observation that McCain will win over the same blue-collar voters that Hillary is now getting with her attacks on Obama. Hillary, in other words, is laying the foundation for a McCain victory. You gotta love it!!!!!
Fear not, the RINOs in the Republican party are waiting to carry the banner.
And full blown Stalinism is what the democrats are about these days. The "new deal" was simply "fear of commitment".
This guy doen't know many FReepers!
You're right. Also, environmentalism is an elaboration of Stalinism -- it began as a series of riffs on Rachel Carson, as auxiliary arguments for a command economy based on perceived "failings of capitalism". There are a couple of good essays out there that show that history -- metasearch on keywords "Maurice Strong" and "Rio Conference".
The idea of Rio was to attract liberal and leftist pols to the Green cause and show them the potential of environmental issues to carry them into power again after the Thatcher/Reagan-driven recessional of Leftism. Rio was organized in 1992, so the Left allowed no grass to grow under its feet after the fall of the Soviet Empire, but promptly counterattacked.
As a Conservative, I must say that there is absolutely nothing to love about any one of these three imbiciles.
In fact they are all without any social redeeming value.
That would, by definition, be one of the examples in defining pornography.
Got any extacy to go with these whores?
I wholeheartedly agree. McPain is nearly as bad as Hil-bama. I only love the irony that a Democrat, Hillary, is doing a Republican’s, McCain’s, legwork.
” ... You gotta love it!!!!! “
“”As a Conservative, I must say that there is absolutely nothing to love about any one of these three imbiciles.””
You beat me to it.
For me, now that I am safe and out of the US, I don’t think it is worth my effort to cast an absentee ballot.
All three are a train wreck. It just depends on which way you want to die.
Prior to Texas she had no constituency, now she's a contender. Operation Chaos is working!
Unfortunately.
Not picking on you Aristotelian.
I'm afraid we have all been taken for a ride.
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Can we count on you to come back for the clean up? ;)
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Hillary may have the Little Sisters of The Rich Pro Abortion wing of non Catholics, Catholics who for some reason enjoy telling others they are Catholic. Sort of like John Kerry, who when he ran in 04 was forbidden from receiving communion by Bishop Baker, formerly of the SC diocese.
“Can we count on you to come back for the clean up? ;)”
Not likely.
Considering that the populace of the US has been dumbed down to this level tells me that there is nothing worth cleaning up for. :((
But the unfortunate fact is that we will likely end up with a liberal administration (calling itself Republican) with two very chagrined factions snarling at it's heels for the entire four years (or so).
The most likely result will be an even more liberal McCain presidency and an even more isolated (and ticked off) conservative base.
My ex-wife is one of those. Catholic in Name Only (well they do like the ritual at Christmas).
A good read but I find it hard to believe Obama will win Mississippi.
A McCain administration would likely resemble that of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson Rockefeller. And what did that spawn? Ronald Reagan.
Hope springs eternal.
Still ... should some choose to go out fighting ... I wont to be with them.
They best be quick about it though. As a child of the '40's & '50's, times a wasting.
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I think he's specifically talking about "country club" Republicans. They do indeed know how to loose, in fact I think some of them like being in the minority. They were for 40 some odd years and seemed to enjoy it until Reagan came along. The 2006 election was a good example of the phenomena.....
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