Why Do We Call Them 'Democrats'?

American Thinker ^ | June 21, 2008 | Lance Fairchok

[neverdem]

We all knew it even though Democrat spokespersons denied it. Worried that the negative connotations would affect their electability and their eyes glued to the capricious winds of public opinion, they invented new words for the old ideology such as progressivism and communitarianism. Apparently, the camouflage is no longer needed. The masks are off. They now openly call for the nationalization of private business, the establishment of universal entitlements and increased taxation to pay for them. Why worry about socialist labels? The electorate is complacent, prosperity has numbed our senses and the left has worked diligently for many years to sap our national pride and deface our self-image.

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

Eight years into the twenty-first century, Mr. Thomas' prediction is coming perilously close to fruition; the presidential elections of 2008 may well validate his faith in "liberalism" and its Trojan horse delivery of Socialism. After decades of slow yet persistent desensitization to Socialism in our schools, in our media and in government policy, Americans are blind to its ramifications for our prosperity, our individual freedoms and our national identity. Political candidates and legislators espouse openly socialist policies without eliciting the slightest outrage or significant comment, so successfully have the philosophies of Marx and Lenin permeated the national psyche. 

House Democrats, loudly shifting blame from the consequences of their energy policies, threaten nationalization of American oil companies. Mimicking Marxist Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, their answer to the energy crisis is eliminating free markets.

"Should the people of the United States own refineries?  Maybe so.  Frankly, I think that's a good idea.  Then we could control the amount of refined product much more capably that gets out on the market..." Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) 18 June Press Conference with Democratic leadership.

Representative Hinchey is on the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee and the Natural Resources Committee, committees with enormous influence on energy matters. He went on as he stood next to House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL):

"So if there's any seriousness about what some of our Republican colleagues are saying here in the House and elsewhere about improving the number of refineries, then maybe they'd be willing to have these refineries owned publicly, owned by the people of the United States, so that the people of the United States can determine how much of the product is refined and put out on the market.

"To me, that sounds like a very good idea."

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) once considered one of congress's fringe leftists apparently let the Democrat party policy slip during show hearings with oil company executives earlier in the month:

"This liberal will be all about socializing, uh, uh . . . would be about . . . basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."

Anticipating the consequences of what they do for political expediency is not a skill the Democrats nurture. Their refusal to support the development of domestic oil reserves, for decades has left us beggars on the world market, susceptible to the whims of theocratic tyrants and Marxist thugs. The record is clear, Republicans voted to develop domestic resources, the Democrats voted against development, by wide margins. Democrat party leaders are now feverishly shifting blame, developing public distracters, claiming their remarks are taken out of context and, as always, counting on the fickle memory of the electorate to kill the issue.

Our Democrat-Socialists invariably support polices that end badly. Bio fuels have removed important food surpluses from markets, raising food prices worldwide. The energy and water required to produce it is far greater to an equal measure of gasoline. This is an example of the solution being worse than the problem. Their anti-Iraq war hysterics have failed; Iraqi democracy moves forward against all odds, a remarkable achievement. The accusations of administration malfeasance, in the war on terror, in diplomacy, in a dozen other areas are proving unsupportable.

Even global warming has turned up a hoax, at best a wild exaggeration more to do with ideology and money than science. Temperatures are dropping, CO2 does not seem to affect global weather and the sun is gone into a natural dormant phase, which means decades of cooler temperatures. Another inconvenient "truth" falls away. Yet new ones are always being born, America's Socialists are ever mutable, shifting and accommodating in the winds of political change. They are clever when inventing new causes and convincing the American people that their record is not their fault.

They never let themselves get pinned down; they never sit idle for the blame to settle.

Our Founding Fathers created a system that understood what best motivates its citizens: a desire to better their lives and the lives of their families. They developed a system that accepts the realties of the human condition, and allows for competing ambitions with checks and balances that are remarkably resilient. It is a system that cultivates enterprise and prosperity, and has been supremely successful. The Socialists want to change it. 

Socialism bleeds the vitality from a nation; it dilutes the national will, and lulls the citizenry into a stupor that makes it ill suited to survival. Existential threats are ignored as social programs and entitlements consume ever larger and larger portions of the national budget. Communism, Socialisms most virulent strain, has been so spectacular a failure it is hard to fathom how anyone could continue to be seduced by its false promises. Yet, we see Marxist autocrats such a Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega idolized with the same adolescent naiveté that made Pol Pot and Fidel Castro palatable to liberal elites in the West. As is always the case, when their inevitable depredations shock and embarrass their western apologists, they quickly disappear from our newspapers and television sets, filtered out by the ideology that erases unpleasant truths by pretending they are not there.

Our willingness to forgo easy comfort and short-term gain for a greater and more lasting prosperity has made us what we are. Most Americans still expect to work for what they have. We take pride in our labors. We expect our fellow citizens to do the same. We are generous with our charity precisely because it is voluntary. We bridle under oppressive government regulation. We know that utopias are a fairytale, and thankfully, for now, a significant number of us can still spot a charlatan.

The Socialist Party of America has arrived, wearing Democrat clothing. Socialist control of the presidency and congress would knock America to its knees as nothing has before. What was inconceivable five years ago becomes a frightening possibility with Obama, Pelosi, Boxer and Reid. The Democrats socialist vision will be a disaster.

If you think gas is expensive now, wait until the socialists in congress run the oil business.

"The past shows unvaryingly that when a people's freedom disappears, it goes not with a bang, but in silence amid the comfort of being cared for. That is the dire peril in the present trend toward statism. If freedom is not found accompanied by a willingness to resist, and to reject favors, rather than to give up what is intangible but precarious, it will not long be found at all." - Richard Weaver, 1962

[skinkinthegrass]

over here...

[Drill Thrawl]

They call themselves Democrates becauase they are always misrepresenting who they are and what they really want.

[pyrless]

Can’t say it better. This one goes out on my distribution list right away.

[Jack Hammer]

The so-called democrat believes in nothing save an oligarchy of the politically correct, anointed minority.

[neverdem]

Can’t say it better.

If McCain uses it, I'll volunteer for him.

[IrishCatholic]

November 24, 2006 thequietconservative.com column archive “The Third Political Party” Had the transcript where Howard Dean was asked by Russert about Bernie Sanders being a socialist. He was uncomfortable and said Bernie voted with the Dems 98% of the time so it was just a matter of semantics.
Today they control 1/2 of the House Committees. Same web site current column “While You Were Sleeping”

[KDD]

And while the G.O.P. has held the White House for 28 of the last 40(20 of the last 28) years they have shown no discerning intent to stop the onslaught of socialism...In point of fact they have esasperated the slide to socialism equally with their co conspirators of the imaginary different stripe. Just what has conservatism actually been able to conserve during this time under either party?

The U.S. Constitution???....Ha.

[bruinbirdman]

" for 28 of the last 40(20 of the last 28) years they have shown no discerning intent to stop the onslaught of socialism.."

Nor identify the dirty commies as such.

Limbaugh has finally started using the label, though hesitantly.

It was conventional wisdom, as propagandized by the socialist MSM, that a correct label was inciteful, too harsh, inflamatory, and, if used too often, diluted the impact.

yitbos

[bruinbirdman]

Note the entire leftist educational emphasis against attaching a "label" on anything. A "label" is an adjective. If appropriate, they are perfectly good descriptive modifyers. Adjectives and descriptive nouns are part of language.

yitbos

[allmost]

Cause they act like crabs and shift sideways as an eternal state of being.

[smedley64]

Really, what it comes down to is the American people, specifically, patriots that love this nation and the documents it was founded on.

Yes, it's all slipping away, and it's slipping away by design and on purpose, and has been doing so for quite some time now. It's just becoming clearer and more obvious than ever before to anyone not sleepwalking through life. An Obeymao White House will just hurry it along that much faster. A McCain White House won't stop it from happening, but will buy us more time than an Obeymao White House would. The real question is, what is the tipping point? When will the American citizenry, if ever, take a stand? At what point do we actively resist the purposefully orchestrated slide into full blown communism? When they come for our guns? When they outlaw Christianity? When they socialize everything under the sun? It's like 30% of this nation sees it happening and is horrified, and 30% want it to happen and are overjoyed, and the other 40% doesn't care one way or the other. When is enough, enough?

The founding fathers gave us the right to bear arms for a reason. They knew that governments, by their very nature, are tyrannical, and gave us the right to stop that from happening if we ever saw it happening, but I'm afraid that America is too apathetic to care until it will be too late. All the soldiers in American history that fought and died, or were wounded in battle, will have wasted all their effort and sacrifice if we allow this nation to become what the DemonRats want it to become. It's a crying shame.

[Mark]

I just use their mascot and call them jackasses

[vanishing liberty]

Don’t forget that it was Bush’s dad who first directed the Interior Department to refuse to grant any drilling leases offshore, thereby preventing any exploration or drilling offshore. This directive in turn was renewed by Clinton and then by Bush Jr., who has yet to rescind it. The Republicans have been willing players in this whole scandal.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

The official name of East Germany....

German DEMOCRATIC Republic

The official name of North Korea......

Korean DEMOCRATIC Republic.

Both communist hellholes, just like Amerika will be with Barry Hussein and his fellow congressional lefties in charge.

[sergeantdave]

My personal experience has shown me that, individually, leftists are cowards. They find strength only in groups and through our apathy.

When conservatives show up at local government meetings and confront them they shut-up and crawl away.

[The Duke]

"Should the people of the United States own refineries? Maybe so. Frankly, I think that's a good idea. Then we could control the amount of refined product much more capably that gets out on the market..." Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) 18 June Press Conference with Democratic leadership.

The operative word in the above paragraph is "control". That's what the Democrats are all about.

[SECURE AMERICA]

<> Why do we call them Republicans? Most people in Elected Office today, I simply call POLITICAL HACKS. Most in either Party no longer represent the people from thier Districts but merely represent themselves and their current Party Ideology or Strategy.

[Caipirabob]

Why Do We Call Them 'Democrats'?

Because there's no printable translation for "@#%@^&!*(@&%!"?

[EBH]

Yes, it's all slipping away, and it's slipping away by design and on purpose, and has been doing so for quite some time now.

And that is a factual truth. The other part of that is, we are responsible for letting it happen. We elected in representatives that didn't have the balls to complete their sworn duty to the country. WE elected candidates and 'settled' with them (RINO). And we will again this election settle for what we get to elect.

Less than a month ago we had a new addition to the family. I became a Great Auntie. I went to visit my nephew and his wife and baby. As I held that little baby at 9 days old and gazed down into baby blue eyes I was deeply saddened. I held my tongue and thoughts at the time. This is not the America I wanted for him. I am sad to think what his future holds.

I started a journal about a great country he had been born into, but at the time was about to embark on a very dark journey. It is a bit of time capsule and will be tucked away in a fireproof box for when he becomes a young man. Inside that box along with the journal over the years of his life will be a few books that I think may be banned, some essays, and a copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. He will know the truth of this Nation even as the socialists/fascists/islamists manipulate the history or even destroy it.

You see I don't only see the danger of Obama and his ilk, but with them comes the terror that is islam. It is bad now, we see the train and it is barreling at us at light speed. We are tied to the tracks.

Speaking with an old woman yesterday, she literally asked, "Where are we to go? Where are freemen to go to live?" A very, very profound question for she recognizes it is not here.