The Democrats’ Death Wish: The Disappearing Destiny of the Donkey Party

Breitbart.com ^ | 27 November 2015 | Virgil

[Rockitz]

I. The Democrats’ “Euro Envy”

Let’s state our thesis up front: The Democrats are in so much trouble on the immigration/border security/counter-terrorism issue that only a truly bone-headed move by the Republicans could save the Democrats from electoral debacle in 2016 and beyond. Which, of course, is always possible, even if, thankfully, it is increasingly unlikely.

Perhaps the biggest problem that the Democrats have is Euro Envy. That is, leftist Americans are deeply influenced by the leftist politics of Europe and therefore determined to emulate all its features—whether ordinary Americans like them or not.

Yes, European social democracy, if not communism, has long been the lodestar of American liberalism. For more than a century, American “progressives” have admired the European welfare state in its plenitude: high taxes, national health insurance, and big foreign aid budgets—and, more recently, libs have revered it all the more for its devotion to combating “climate change.”

[crosdaddy]

Mitch Daniels

[Billthedrill]

A lengthy and excellent article, and thanks for posting. The key to understanding what happened to the Democrat party is the ideological change that most people date to right around the Vietnam War. Whether this is anything new or simply the flowering of seeds long planted is a question I shall leave to historians.

Those assumptions are: (1) the the United States is fundamentally evil; (2) that it must be punished, and; (3) reformed along the lines of the one ideology that promises "peace" - that of international socialism. (That "peace", incidentally, was defined by Marx in a moment of candor as "The absence of opposition to socialism." That turns out to be a little circular for intelligent argument, but they take it very seriously indeed.)

In one package we have a classic ideology: a self-defined tribal group, a set of unquestionable precepts, a sense of moral rectitude, and a doctrine of violence toward outsiders. This particular one adds a sense of romanticism, the cultivation of envy, and a rejection of reason in preference to passion. These are strong tools for the construction of a cult or a political movement.

The Democrat party of Scoop Jackson and Hubert Humphrey is dead, because those men are dead and gone with them is their own credo that America is not evil and does not need to be punished and transformed. The new keepers in their place do not really reject nationalism, they reflect our nationalism. Even to term this multiculturalism is inexact: they reject our culture while submerged in the plenty it has brought because yes, it is nice, but America is fundamentally evil and hence a suitable target for plunder.

What is actually going on here is far deeper than a single election. Eight years of control by the Left has resulted only in increased debt, increased hatred, increased lawlessness, increased violence, and an incessant demand for more of the same forever. Their agents will not take rejection well.

[GOPJ]

And as we have also seen, they {Democrats} no longer worry about worker's wages-and that only makes sense, because the two big magnetic poles of the new Democratic coalition, Al Sharpton and George Soros, are both oblivious to wages. Why? Because Sharpton's core constituents aren't in the workforce; they make their living through welfare, not work. And as for Soros and his fellow billionaires, they couldn't be bothered to think about anything as microscopic as a mere wage. Meanwhile, Democratic politicos believe that if they just get the immigrant ranks big enough, they can get the Democratic vote big enough.

Sick - this guy gets what's happening - and why. Long piece but an amazing read. Democrats are going down.

[VRW Conspirator]

How exactly are Democrats doing anything but completely dominating the political landscape?

Bump. B. Hussein Obama keeps moving the ball down the field because the opposing team gave up, the referees are compromised and the media is cheering for him. It is no wonder he does more and more outrageous things. He can't lose.

[Liz]

Democrats believe that if they just get the immigrant ranks big enough, they can get the Democratic vote big enough.........

The feeble brain of Obama dreamed up this idiocy.

(snix) He's already got two Somali votes in Maine.

The two ladies just registered as Democrats. ROTFLOL.

[GOPJ]

Nothing surprises me anymore...

:)

[rrrod]

Conservatives need show we are winning

[GOPJ]

Virgil should have made this into a series or a small book. Lots of great ideas packed too close together... Amazing thinker...

[Rockitz]

Interesting. It kind of reminds me of a book proposal to a publisher. Maybe he’s shopping it as an article?

[GOPJ]

Could be a book proposal... lots of well thought-out insights... and timely. Kind of stuff publishers like before a major election.