The Left

[deljzc]

You guys over-simplify.

The foundational principle of the Democratic party, which admittedly leans a bit too far left, is to ensure support and minimal human services for those who cannot afford them or who could not otherwise get them yet desperately need them.

In principle, this foundational tenet is right and good. However, politicians are exactly like leeches, living off the blood and work and life of their constituencies. They bloat and gorge themselves on others and the democratic party has long since strayed from the proper path of providing reasonable care for people with mental disabilities, funding of medical research for disease. The funding of successful improvements in universal education in this country, the care and provisioning of the Social Security program that so many Americans have supported throughout their lifetimes. These are the "social" programs that the Democratic party should truly focus their energies on. However, they have chosen instead to focus on more and more radical programs and policies that actually drain our national resources, both hard and financial, continue to exacerbate our class-separation problem (which coincidentally helps Democrats retain power and continue to become more wealthy and influential politically), and honestly their new policies ultimately produce very little in terms of results.

The party has strayed too far from it's actual purpose and value. They've become too radical in an effort to build more power and draw more followers. Along the way they've actually alienated a large part of their core, but they've also managed to woo a young generation of future voters with what are very likely empty promises. While the short term rewards from this millennial generation may result in some election victories, when the democrats continue to fail to produce the pipe-dreams of success and unity that they attempt to sell, they will quickly disenfranchise the petulant millennial masses and they'll find themselves in even more dire straits than they are in now.

The democrats MUST work their way back to what they are supposed to be, mild social reformists who's primary agenda is the preservation of the middle class. Because we are LOSING the middle class. I'm not convinced the republicans truly give two ***** about that either, but they are at least saying the right things and doing the right things to convince the American people that there is an attempt to secure jobs and preserve some semblance of the American Middle Class. The democrats have totally bailed on that and they've gone all in on minorities and gimmicks.

This has been the case for more than this generation.

There has always been the saying "Be democrat in your 20's but be republican in your 40's". The kumbayah ideologies of youth have always somewhat guided democratic policy. They continue to pander to pie-in-the-sky "greater good" and "unity", I don't blame the young for wanting this. I really don't. I argued long and hard with many democrats in college (which where a majority even at a conservative college like Lehigh).

But I strongly question that mentality after 20-25 years in the workforce. The only reason most of my friends are still democrat isn't so much for the pie-in-the-sky stuff anymore. I think it's mostly because Republicans have strayed from their fundamental ideas of fiscal responsibility and smaller government. Anyone that has a budget at home with 2-3 kids and a mortgage understands what Republicans should be standing for. The problem (in my opinion) is the party has been somewhat infiltrated with social conservatives and ideologues. In many ways the democrats are also infiltrated with "race politics" at well. And I agree with you they have gone away from their core message because some democratic districts are 80-90% minority, always vote democrat and continue to shift more and more into uncharted territory of race baiting and reparation-based policies.

As many have argued, while gerrymandering (and I don't blame this on anyone, it's just part of government) has created many for sure democrat or republican districts (and some argue 15%-20% of the House of Representatives will never change parties now), these seats continue to shift further and further to the extremes that work in primary seasons. I don't think that's good.

I have said this during the election, there are four parties in the country now. Social Conservatives, Nationalists, Euro-Socialists and Race-based Democrats. I would argue Social Conservative and Race-based Democrats are furthest apart but the other two groups often share ideologies with all of the others on some issues. One of the main reasons I like Trump and continue to support him is I think he has created a Republican base that isn't just "social conservatives". And in order to beat the two-heads of Euro-Socialists and Race-based Democrats, the party needed to expand. Nationalists are that group and it elected Trump.

 

[hamster]

The new DNC chief is hallucinating. He doesn't think President Trump won the election. Bwahahahahahahahahah.
Same old lame, tired bullshit Democratic bureaucrat.. Don't they realize that this type of **** is what got them into trouble in the first place.?


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/01/dncs-perez-says-trump-bully-didnt-win-election.html

 

[Spike]

The new DNC chief is hallucinating. He doesn't think President Trump won the election.

just like Russia was unimportant to the Dems, was avoided by Dems, until they needed to rationalize their absolutely stunning defeat.

The real reason the Dems are still so pissed is that they didn’t lie and cheat enough!

 

[Spike]

And libtards are still in denial, saying "we won the popular vote."

Their prom queen lost her coronation night popularity contest - and it was glorious to watch!

 

[MTC]

The new DNC chief is hallucinating. He doesn't think President Trump won the election. Bwahahahahahahahahah.
Same old lame, tired bullshit Democratic bureaucrat.. Don't they realize that this type of **** is what got them into trouble in the first place.?


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/01/dncs-perez-says-trump-bully-didnt-win-election.html

Didn't win the election? What? Yeah that's why he's president. ****. I'm losing brain cells just reading stuff from the dnc