Why I don't trust the Dems
POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 04:09
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Signym,
I think you're right on both counts. People meant to vote to reject the agenda, and they'll be disappointed.
My area is predominantly republican, so we get some power-seekers who are republicans because they're gollum, and a lot of people who are just republicans. The gollum-publicans would be democrats if they lived in the city, because that would be what would get them ahead. The democratic party today is just as full of gollumocrats as the GOP is full of gollumpublicans.
What makes matters worse is a bunch of core baddies ditching Bush early to get in on the new DEMpire, eg Richard Perle to guide them, and the dem operatives of the team, hillary et al, to lead them. the gollums will glom on to the rising tide of the new ringbearer, and follow him to mt. doom. which is not to say hillary is frodo, or perle sauron, but you get the point. somewhere along the line are a few good dems, pat leahy, for ex., but they don't make the party good as a whole. I wouldn't say the GOP is 'good as a whole' either, I think it's pretty rotten these days, but hopefully we'll clean it up.
At the moment, I dispair of cleaning up the democrats. The roots of the thing just go too deep. I see an awful lot of democratic followers following a dancing shiny light which talks about the positions they support, but not actually getting people like them. Too often I think also, the issues they are told to care about by their party take over their decision making, and you get things like people who are solidly pro-peace and will never have an abortion end up voting for a solidly pro-war candidate because he's pro-choice (like a lot of votes kerry probably got in '04) - which is all a very twisted manipulation by the party. Which is not to say the same thing doesn't happen on this side of the aisle, I'm sure it does.
But no one should ever "trust" a politician much less a political party. eternal vigilance. And careful which ones you support. I try to support people with a long unshaken history of independence and doing the right thing, even if they are sometimes wrong. I am most suspicious of people with powerful friends who ascend through the ranks. I think this was a pretty clear dichotomy in 2000 in Bush vs. McCain, but I'm less clear about McCain now. Generally I would more trust Warner, Lugar, Specter, other old time republicans, and McCain if he were with them, but not if he's with his new friends.
There was one republican on those lists, but sadly Chafee lost. Jeffords is more of a republican than many republicans lately, but he is retiring. I think the only good part of the democratic victory is as Cato says "gridlock is good."
But now you guys get the thankless task of trying to temper your parties massive genocidal wars for haliburton, oil and muslim extermination. don't believe me/check the history, and prepare for the coming "let's nuke Iran" plan. Sure, Bush would have liked to, but I think his party wouldn't let him, and now it's the dems turn. I'm expecting it won't happen until after '08, when the person to whom this new dem majority owes favors is in power.
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