The Undead, and friend
Posted on 09/14/2008 1:02:49 PM PDT by oldtimer2
Monsters from the Id: Good-bye to All That's Democrat
The monsters from the id that now control the Democrat Party have transformed that party into a mob of undead extras from The Dawn of the Dead. It's an indecent and disgusting spectacle and I suspect there's more than a few million long-time Democrats who are revolted by it. That certainly seems to be creeping into the polls. No matter the good it once did, the Democrats today present as sick and crazed political party that is so greedy and hungry for power that it will do anything, including selling its country down the drain, to get it back.
Regardless of the race of the Democrats' selected nominee, Martin Luther King's dream of judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin has been transformed into a tawdry thing; a dried husk in which they wrap their skeletal remains, a hollow phrase spewed by the ascendent race hustlers of the party and lapped up by their acolytes.
Until 2004, with the exception of Guiliani's second term as mayor, I voted the Democrat ticket in every election since 1967. In 2004, offered the Insane Clown Posse of John Kerry and John Edwards, I voted for George Bush. The spectacle of the last four years of various Democrats reaching for the gold ring did not inspire me to change my view. Only the dead enjoy parties in a crypt. Not even Roman columns improve the Charnal house atmosphere that fumes through the party today.
From the party that gave us FDR, Truman, JFK and even, yes, LBJ, the Democrats have gone through a process of gradual but inexorable devolution to the party of such weak, tepid and compromised souls as Carter, Clinton, Kerry, and now Obama - the ultimate bargainer, the race hustler with an Ivy League sheepskin. But these chestless men the Party puts up are only the shadows cast by the compromises it has made within itself. It has made many compromises over the years, taken in many "causes" each one more dubious and rotten than the last.
As a result of this unremitting ideological promiscuity, the "progressive" party has become progressively more diseased from each submissive encounter. The gangrene that has rotted the body of the party has transformed it into some transnational Dorian Gray. Strutting and noble and handsome when preening before the cameras and the crowds, but putrid and pestilential when you see it as it is in the dull light of its polluted "new morning."
Politics is a profession founded on and fueled by hypocrisy. This we all know. But, at the same time, we also need a politics that somewhere within it has a shred of uncompromised decency, the understanding of honor, and more than a little courage. None of these qualities exists in the Democratic Party today.
For some time, I expected there would be a turning around among many Democrats. I expected that the better angels of their nature would triumph and lead them out of the moral swamp into which they were wading deeper with every passing month.
In the last fortnight, however, I have come to the place where the whole sorry spectacle and circus of the Democrats has finally filled me with disgust and revulsion. The party whose ideals once excited me has become a mockery, a dumbshow, a parody of itself, and a dangerous parody at that.
Instead of inspiration the Democrat Party delivers shopworn socialist solution, numbing boredom, sheer despair, intellectual and spiritual poverty, sexism, and the worst sort of racism seen since it gave birth to the Klu Klux Klan. Classical racism loathes "the other." The new racism of the Democrat requires one loathe oneself first and last, and to accuse those that do not of racism. To paraphrase Bob Dylan, "The Democrats want to get you down in the hole that they're in."
Instead of telling us what sort of New Jerusalem it would have us build as our City on the Hill, the party requires that its members root about in the ghettos of the soul, to ponder the rightness or wrongness of the very babies of its opponents. Instead of waving the bright banners of America triumphant, the Party dons the rags and bones of defeatism and appeasement and moves about the country like a tarted-up Typhoid Mary, infecting all who kiss its chancred lips. As a party, it's a poxed whore for whom no condom is thick enough. It's a death trip.
No more dates with Demy for me. I'll have no more to do with it. I know I'm not the only one. Day by day over the last fortnight, more and more are coming to this conclusion.
In a way, what the Democrat party is somewhat like a first wife thought about at a safe distance from the divorce.
You know you loved her at some point, but you can't really remember why.
You know she was beautiful to you then, but now you can only see the ruins of that beauty, and you are glad you had the best years.
You know that, yes, you must have been happy with her and had a lot of good times, but now you can't remember where or when.
In fact, when you think about her now you can't really believe you wasted all those poisoned years with her just because you believed that somehow, some time, she would grow sane, beautiful, and young again.
In some way, in some universe, that hope should be true about the people you loved. When it comes to the politics you once loved it is never true. When a party goes insane and degenerates into a diseased mass of hate, "an old bitch gone in the teeth, / A botched civilization" it never really reforms.
Like they say in the National Parks, "Once a bear is hooked on garbage, there's no cure."
'we can all engage in stealth activism/!
The author is excellent at conjuring up visual images. Stretched my education a bit, though. I had to perform two Google searches to fill in some gaps (Dorian Gray and Charnel house).
“in the last fortnight, hoever, i have come to the place where the whole sorry spectacle and circus of the democrats
has finally filled me with disgust and revulsion.”
socialists with no manners, no sense of propriety, with egos the size of the grand canyon, with a sense of self-appointed brilliance, who badger and carp, who push and berate, who go about the country demeaning people who have faith, sometimes have a tendency to be obnoxious phalluses who disgust people and make them sick.
the question is, what took him so long to get fed up?
IMHO
Like the writer, I, too, was a Democrat, back in my younger years. It took Carter's "malaise" of double-digit inflation, stagnation, a pervading sense of doom and gloom that America was weak and faltering, contrasted with the bright, optimistic, clear, decisive message of Ronald Reagan. And to use that well-worn phrase, it was like the clouds had parted and the sun burst forth for the first time in many years.
Sarah Palin has brought that magic back again. The old and decayed false logic of the left leads to despair, but it is easily vanquished by those who know how to cut through it. It isn't difficult. To banish the darkness, one merely needs to light a lamp. Why it has been so excruciatingly difficult to find another lamp-bearer, has been the source of frustration to so many of us these past years. Rush Limbaugh has been adamant and correctly so that this is all it would take. We just needed someone to step up and call the fools on their own game, and tell it like it is. Sarah Palin, out of the clear blue just popped up and started doing that very thing.
I feel so relieved. I haven't felt this good about our countries prospects since 1980, and what a great feeling it is!
My family was always Democrat. So was I many years ago. But I grew out of it. I think in some ways the transition from Liberal to Conservative is the natural order of things. Winston Churchill believed so anyway.
What is happening now in terms of people waking up from the dream of deciet offered by the Democrats is different, in that it occurs outside the slow growth normally reserved for the transition from liberal to conservative.
The behavior of the left, mainly in the response to Palin, is so jarring to anyone not frothing at the mouth from years of “Progressive” Kool-aid, that it prompts this realization.
The lashing out has been that of a spoiled infant, and seeing such behavior in the supposed adults in media and on the left elicits a visceral defense response from healthy adults. Something has gone horribly wrong, even if you can't articulate exactly what it is.
If the strain of defeatist, valueless, vile hate and lust for power at any cost infesting the Democrat party is not exorcised very soon, they are finished as a political force in this country. Or we are finished as a country. It is definitely one or the other.
Sarah Palin probably learned all she needs to know about the Democrat Party from hearing about Alaskan garbage eating bears.
mark
“I feel so relieved. I haven’t felt this good about our countries prospects since 1980, and what a great feeling it is!”
I agree, but keep in mind that the Obamanation is still ahead in all of the electoral voter counts. This thing isn’t over yet.
First and foremost, we need to convince those conservatives who want to sit this one out or vote for Barr to back McCain/Palin. Not just to keep the Obamanation out, but to give Mrs. Palin the chance to win in 2012, which would be a true Reagan Moment.
Politics is a profession founded on and fueled by hypocrisy. This we all know. But, at the same time, we also need a politics that somewhere within it has a shred of uncompromised decency, the understanding of honor, and more than a little courage. None of these qualities exists in the Democratic Party today.
This made me think of Joe Lieberman and how he was forced ultimately to leave the party. Because he embodied such qualities that the party as a whole did not, he was tarred and feathered and treated with vileness. His honorable, upright, patriotic behavior shined a light on the Democrats darkness and their acrid hate for their own country. I am so glad we could honor him at our Republican convention for his conviction and courage.
Although the Republicans have their own issues that need to be spotlit, I feel that in the majority of the base is a sense of conviction, courage, straight talk, sense of Godliness, honor, patriotism and on and on that allows us to hold our own leaders feet to the fire. This has been sorely missing from the Democrats. The foundation they have built upon is not one with conviction for what this country was founded upon, in fact it has been laid with the concrete of what it was founded against.
Sidenote: Progressive = Socialist/Marxist policies. Wheneven anyone says, "I am a progressive," I apply the definition above. Although I like the progressively vile disgusted in this article as well.
Kudos the the writer! I love someone who has the courage and humility to say in essense, "we have lost our way." That takes balls and is admirable. Great article. Thank you for posting.
Wow. Right ON and also brilliantly written.
It was bound to happen a core-less party just does not work.
Forrest Gore and his keeper!
Great post you speak for a lot of us.
Portrait of Dorian Gray
I’m glad you picked up on the author’s allusion to the greatest science fiction movie ever made.
But who’s Anne Francis? Not Sarah! The id-monster is not trying to protect her.
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