Nation's Liberals Suffering From Outrage Fatigue

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 09:05 Post: 348891 - Just what is it with the Democrats ... a deathwish?

This is just my take on the current state of political affairs, but I sense The Democrats have lost touch with The American People. Sure, the Campaign Season is barely a week old, and the first primaries and caucauses are months away, but I am struck by the two facts that two thirds of Americans can't name a Democratic Candidate, and that over half the registered Democrats polled recently prefer "None of the above" when given the task of making a choice from among the current plethora of candidates. The leaders among the candidates pull numbers barely into the 'teens. The decrease in Bush the Younger's poll numbers does not translate into gains for the Democrats. The Democratic Party itself has lost the interest of The Electorate. The issues and values they have siezed are not those embraced by the majority of the population. Rescinding Bush the Younger's tax cuts is a non-starter. The attempt to play the Administration's tax policies as "Class Warfare" is broadly "Ho-Hummed" by the majority of folks, who seem to understand that tax relief and tax incentives apply by definition to those who pay taxes. More "Working Poor" have been pushed below the newly raised minimum tax line since the tax cuts went into effect than at any time in our country's history ... thus shifting even more of the tax burden to those in higher income brackets ... "The Rich" now pay a greater proportion of taxes than they did before the tax cuts which the Democrats claim "Favor the rich". The Democrats characterize what is arguably the swiftest, most decisive, most humane military victory in human history as a "Failure". The Democrats are pro-choice ... as long as that choice doesn't involve prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, keeping sex in the bedroom, gun ownership, sport-utility vehicles, the wearing of fur, or choosing to send one's children to private schools with the aid of public funds. The Tolerant Democrats are tolerant of any viewpoint not in conflict with their own ... anyone espousing traditional family values, a well-funded military, a proactive foreign policy stance, environmental regulations which do not cripple infrastructure expansion, exploitation of renewable resources, or domestic energy production, securing our borders and cracking down on illegal immigration, adhering to The Constitution and The Bill of Rights, or removing racially preferential quotas is a nazi, a bigot, a racist, or an anti-progress reactionary. The People just ain't buying any of that. Apart from the activists within the Democratic Party, nobody is giving today's Democratic Party much credence at all.

Now, I could be wrong about some or all of this; its just my opinion, after all. I just don't see any evidence to the contrary, no matter how the most ardent Democratic supporters try to spin things. Hammering on the "Failure" of an obviously, and accelleratingly, improving economy does the Democrats no service at all. Characterizing The War on Terrorism and the intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan as a series of failures flies in the face of fact. Claiming Iraq has become a "Vietnam-like quagmire", and that the war was founded on "Lies", is simply unsupportable, and only alienates the populace at large to the bearers of that message. Shrillness and vigor lend no substance to an argument. The Democrats are in denial, as far as I can see, and in decline. Failure to recognize and address this situation can only result in a generation or two of increasingly conservative American administrations. The Democrats today are their own worst enemy.

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:40 Post: 362283 -

Scrat, I think Bernie was on to something there. His observation re the insularity of The Liberal Media seems apt. I notice a sort of condescending, patronizing manner from talking heads conducting small-town man-in-the-street or redneck-in-the-coffeeshop interviews, for example ... a bit of scorn, tempered with evident pity ("its not their fault their poor and ignorant"). I attribute this perceived sense of elitism to the rigors of obtaining the education typically required for a carreer in The Media. The poor sods are cloistered for years in the artificial confines of the Arts and Humanities departments of Academe, daily subjected to the rants and harangues of the now aging tenured twits who've remained shut behind the ivy-shrouded walls since they discovered, in the 'Sixties, that the world is a mean, nasty place full of pragmatic conservatives and feckless moderates, with whom there is no way to meaningfully interact on an intellectual basis ... hell, some of those folks out there in Middle America even sweat when not wearing gym outfits ... and do it every day, with some sort of insane pride ... how rude.

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 21:40 Post: 495098 -


And then there's

Quote:

Ralph Nader mulls another run at the presidency


By Maria Recio
Knight Ridder Newspapers



WASHINGTON - Ralph Nader, whose campaign for president in 2000 arguably tilted several close states- and victory - to George W. Bush, is considering another run.

I'm not counting on Ralphie, though, no matter how pleasantly amusing the thought; the Left can't possibly be that disingenuous. Again.


Can they?

Claiming Iraq has become a "Vietnam-like quagmire", and that the war was founded on "Lies", is simply unsupportable, and only alienates the populace at large to the bearers of that message. Shrillness and vigor lend no substance