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The Democratic Party is a disaster. We have to start over
Los Angeles Times ^ | November 5, 2017 | by Maria Bustillos

Posted on 11/06/2017 11:14:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

You know the “Blue Screen of Death”? The way your PC screen turns blue when the Windows operating system goes kaput? During the Clinton administration, the cause of a BSoD was liable to be hardware-related — owing, say, to a failed motherboard — so the bluetastrophe was lethal. Irreparable.

The disaster that befell the Democratic Party a year ago is exactly this kind of fatal blow, a political BSoD.

We Democrats believed that things were moving, slowly, in the right direction; that our Republican friends and relatives would see sense, somehow, eventually — no way were they really that racist, or that hypocritical. We believed our Democratic leaders would play fair, and prove worthy of our trust; that their loyalty to rich donors would diminish, that progressives would gain power within the party.

But we were blind to the truth, and blindsided by the catastrophic ineptitude of our leadership. Against all sense, at a time of dangerous polarization and unrest, Democrats were pressured to back a candidate of legendary unpopularity. The party’s chair was ousted at a crucial moment because she abused her power on behalf of that candidate.

The Democratic establishment caused the Blue Screen of Death. We need a new computer with a freshly installed operating system, and pronto. There is no reboot or Safe Mode available. The only option is to throw out the broken machine.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018issues; democrats; dnc; dncstrategy; election2016; hillary2016; liberals; progressives; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Democrats became a full-blown Communist party in 1994. Cf. Trevor Loudon.


61 posted on 11/06/2017 1:11:56 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/hj3e8cKZWiY)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maria, first you need to tell Democrats to stop killing people they disagree with. That would be a start.


62 posted on 11/06/2017 1:12:38 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"We have to 'start over'":

Socialist speak for: get rid of/kill all of the party's elite leaders and their underlings who carried out their failed policies and "replace them" with our "new socialists" who will do it right, this time.

63 posted on 11/06/2017 1:14:29 PM PST by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: marktwain
She is delusional. She thinks the Democrats have not gone far left enough.

Reading between the lines of this evasive article, it's clear that this woman believes the new Democratic Party, once all the Clintonite holdovers are purged, should be an anti-white party.

64 posted on 11/06/2017 1:46:45 PM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: marktwain
She is delusional. She thinks the Democrats have not gone far left enough.

I'll say this for them - they're predictable. The odds of "journalist and critic" from Los Angeles calling for a more moderate party platform are damned near zero.

Think about it this way... when was the last time that the CPUSA fielded its own presidential candidate? Late 1980s, I believe. I take that to mean that the Communist infiltration of the Democrat Party began in earnest shortly before Bush 41 uttered the words "New World Order". They've been steering the Democrats' bus ever since, biding their time while the old-school liberals die off.

The grand irony in all of this is that they were thwarted this time by a Dem whose power madness exceeded her interest in "the revolution". It was all about HER.

65 posted on 11/06/2017 2:05:06 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Go Left you morons, go more Left, make Karl Marx look like Andrew Carnegie. I look forward to the results.


66 posted on 11/06/2017 2:08:39 PM PST by Bayan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t start over — get rid of it.


67 posted on 11/06/2017 3:50:44 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Jonny7797
Smaller government is the only answer.

It's not just smaller government. We need a shared culture.

Liberals destroyed our collective culture by bringing in identity politics, Marxism, etc. Unfortunately impressionable youth and sad sack cases swallowed all that hook, line, and sinker. They need to return to traditional American values.

68 posted on 11/06/2017 8:08:54 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: subterfuge
The hard left’s takeover of the Democrat crime syndicate has put them in a position where their “leader” may NOT be a heterosexual white male.

Not just leadership. Membership, period.

In the last election my brother voted Libertarian (Gary Johnson). While he dislikes Trump, there is no way he will vote Democrat.

I predict many, if not most, white straight males will leave the Democratic party. Why stay there among such hostility? Instead, they'll either defect to the GOP or, if they actually want to remain liberal, hook up with the 3rd parties like Green or Libertarian.

Probably anyone with a modicum of mental health, white or otherwise, will leave. The only ones left in the Democratic party will be fringe -- feminists, gays, and underclass minorities.

69 posted on 11/06/2017 8:14:36 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: MoochPooch

Excellent point Mooch. Hopefully the defectors from the left’s evil grip will see the light and turn to full on conservatives.


70 posted on 11/07/2017 5:10:01 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: Billthedrill
When people you think should vote for you don't, it may be more than just the candidate.

They do not, nor will ever think their policies are wrong. Even when they share the thoughts of Stalin, Lenin and Mao, they think, "we can do it so much better than them".

But in the end it all ends in force, you can see it now, they are forcing their life style, non morals and global warming beliefs on the rest of us and now talking of violence and prosecution if you don't tow the line.

Force, eventually death to dissenters, it ALWAYS ends that way.

71 posted on 11/07/2017 12:30:22 PM PST by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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