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Not Your Father's Democratic Party
Townhall.com ^ | 19 February A.D. 2024 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 02/19/2024 9:48:12 PM PST by lightman

The Democratic Party is a group of insufferable children, spoiled and entitled, throwing a constant series of temper tantrums without interruption. They are the brat kid in your child’s class, constantly indulged with hugs and reassurances that they’re “special” and important, when what they really need is a butt-reddening series of spanks that make it difficult to sit for a week. That won’t happen because leftists don’t have any adults on their side.

Well, maybe that’s overstating it a bit – they have adults, but they aren’t interested in acting like one. They are more interested in an agenda über alles approach to life, written in its original German because, well, that’s who they are.

Along those lines, the Democrat Party has allowed their fringe to run wild and destroy lives. Now they not only control the party, they are the party.

Conventional wisdom in the media is that “The Republican Party has moved so far to the right…” This is never backed up with any facts, just stated as if it were true because it was said. But if you think about it, the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan is pretty much the Republican Party of today in almost every way except tone.

The attitude of the rhetoric has absolutely gotten more pointed; harsher. For years, when Republicans were attacked by the fascistic left, they took an almost apologetic approach. Only Reagan could turn a friendly sounding rebuttal into a smiling stinger that left a mark, other Republicans just cowered, wanting to be liked by the people beating them.

Donald Trump changed that. Hit him and he’d hit back, sometimes with a brutal observation or takedown everyone knew to be true to no Republican had the guts to say, other times with the equivalent of “You’re fat and ugly.” One is less productive than the other, but both leave a mark.

Democrats have been doing this forever. They got away with it because who was going to call them on it? Journalists? Television comedians? They weren’t about to be critical of their own team, especially when they were engaging in the tactics they, themselves, pioneered.

As the left has gotten more radical, they’ve gotten more insistent that it is the right who’ve changed. The party of Reagan was pro-life, pro-border security, pro-growth, pro-America, pro-marriage and traditional family and anti-communist. Democrats used to have a fairly large contingent of members who were a couple of those things too, now they have none.

It’s like sitting next to someone on a long bench, then sliding all the way down to the other end of the bench and complaining that the other person has gone so far away from you. Yes, there is a chasm between the two of you, but they’ve barely moved. It’s about perspective and who frames it more than the reality.

Just a few years ago, no Democrat would allow their cities to burn, the neighborhoods they govern to be destroyed by a band of anti-American goons; they would have shut it down the second anything destructive started to happen. Now, they fundraise for bail money for people who throw firebombs at police and burn local, black owned businesses. But it’s Republicans who’ve changed?

Most curious is how there is literally no one on the left willing to be critical of it. There has been no “Sister Souljah moment,” no Democrat willing to tell this violent mob, or the entitled brats on college campuses, or arrogant and ignorant Members of Congress that this country is not the horrific, racist, sexist, homophobic root of all evil in the world they chant it is.

Not one Democrat stands up for the country against this destructive mob, they embrace it.

This is not the party of JFK – someone who served this country, who was anti-communist. He wasn’t perfect, but he wasn’t anything near what that party is now. Their 1960 nominee would not even be allowed a daytime speaking slot at their convention today.

As you hear Joe Biden whine about how the Republican Party has changed, as him how? Look up everything he’s spent his career advocating and ask if any of what he said he supported in his first presidential run in 1988 is something he supports today. His only legislative “accomplishment” in four decades in the Senate was the 1994 crime bill, which he had to denounce because Democrats no longer support the idea of imprisoning criminals.

So, ask your liberal friends one simple question: Which party changed again?


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I first registered to vote as a Democrat.

And then, like Ronaldus Magnus, I discovered that "I hadn't left the Democratic Party--the Party left me".

My moment of awakening was when the DNC muzzled PA Governor Robert Casey, Sr., who was poised to present a pro-life message to the national convention.

1 posted on 02/19/2024 9:48:12 PM PST by lightman
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To: lightman
Bttt.

The Democrat party has been socialist and anti-American since at least FDR , https://youtu.be/8beQdqi_H7s?si=QXK17UhC7WeZZ9tN.

2 posted on 02/19/2024 10:11:53 PM PST by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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To: SecondAmendment

Nah, they were always against freedom and liberty. After all, they are the party of slavery, segregation, the trail of tears, Jim Crow, the kkk, Japanese internment camps and now infanticide.


3 posted on 02/19/2024 10:15:21 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: lightman
same....started out as a demoncrat until I saw the light about 1980....

before then I really thought the old timey democrats were very pro America, pro military, pro people....and pro God....

4 posted on 02/19/2024 10:21:42 PM PST by cherry
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To: lightman

You voted for Dukakis in 1988?


5 posted on 02/19/2024 10:25:20 PM PST by lasereye
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To: cherry

The last really normal Democrat was Hubert Humphrey. Among other things he was pro-life. He helped break the communist hold on the Minnesota Democrat party. He was a great American. The radicals that were starting to take over the Democrat party in 1968 despised him.


6 posted on 02/19/2024 10:29:52 PM PST by lasereye
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To: lasereye

Nope.

Last Democrap Presidential vote was Clintoon, 1992...and only because I was suckerebated into thinking that he was going to “fix” spiraling healthcare/health insurance costs.

First Presidential vote (1980) was for Ronald Reagan...as a Dem!


7 posted on 02/19/2024 10:41:30 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Not even your grandfather’s (or fathers for that matter) human
beings.


8 posted on 02/19/2024 10:51:21 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: lightman

One things for Sure,

Demonrats are THE ENEMY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE


9 posted on 02/20/2024 12:23:58 AM PST by afchief
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To: lightman; lasereye
I think you are both mistaken. The last American Democrat (someone who was a Democrat, who I can classify as "American") was Zell Miller. (I disagreed with him on a variety of subjects, but he was more conservative than many RINOs we have today)

This article was pretty good. It seems to define, but never mentions, what is called LINK: The Overton Window...it is about 2-3 min, but explains it well.

10 posted on 02/20/2024 1:56:00 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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#ing Rats


11 posted on 02/20/2024 2:25:27 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: lightman

The Democrat Party is proof that even gangsters and street thugs need a political party.


12 posted on 02/20/2024 3:45:30 AM PST by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: lightman
KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America

The Radical Left is so close to having absolute power they can taste it.

13 posted on 02/20/2024 4:11:41 AM PST by CtBigPat (There are people in this world who would kill you for a dollar, and the worst wear business suits. )
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To: lightman

JFK would be a radical right winger by today’s political standards.


14 posted on 02/20/2024 4:12:04 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: lightman
"Republicans just cowered, wanting to be liked by the people beating them."

Yup, that about sums it up..

15 posted on 02/20/2024 4:19:22 AM PST by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: lightman

The one democrat I could see myself voting for in history is Harry Truman. He at least cared enough about the troops to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And if he hadn’t done that, I might not be here today.


16 posted on 02/20/2024 4:45:23 AM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: unread

” Thank you sir! May I have another?” (Whack!!)


17 posted on 02/20/2024 4:45:35 AM PST by pingman (It's a Clown World, and we're paying for it.)
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To: central_va
The political spectrum has shifted to the Left, especially on cultural issues. But let's assume what would have happened has Kennedy survived the assassination in 1963. Let's also assume he lived until 1995. Democrats in the 1970s switched from pro-life to pro-abortion. Examples include Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, and Dick Gephardt. Given the shift, and JFK's reputation as a “swinger”, I believe he would have gone to pro-abortion, especially after Cardinal Cushing, a Kennedy family friend, died.
18 posted on 02/20/2024 4:56:43 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: lightman

Growing up, I knew a few Conservative Democrats. One was Ella Grasso (The first women’s governor elected in her own right), William O Neil (not Tip, but a state legislator), my state senator (who fought against the income tax), but not anymore.


19 posted on 02/20/2024 5:07:18 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: No name given

Unfortunately the republicans never use that. They get called racist but don’t say anything. The democrats want reparations. Fine. Why don’t the republicans say, “yes. The democrats were slave owners who do indeed need to pay for their sins.” Instead? Nothing.


20 posted on 02/20/2024 5:14:38 AM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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