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‘I’m a Democrat, but It’s Time to Leave the Party’
Americans stand as one people divided only by the betrayal of the giant cabal and corrupt politicians. The heartfelt lament of an American Democrat, not a fashionable far-left Democrat, hits home the nostalgic feeling of what American values used to be for most. You can read the whole article by former CIA ops officer Bryan Dean Wright here.
Published in PoliticsFor years, Democrats like me have watched with increasing alarm as our own political leaders and activists – from Speaker Nancy Pelosi to media outlets like MSNBC – have used an endless stream of hateful, violent and ultimately un-American rhetoric that has resulted in billions of dollars in economic damage and given birth to a violent national movement….We heard that same un-American language echoing in the Left’s political zeitgeist as it denigrated cultural icons like Mt. Rushmore, heroic presidents like Abraham Lincoln and the entirety of American history with false or incomplete retellings of our nation’s founding. The message from the Left has thus been clear: America is awful and irredeemable.
The solution they propose? Destroy it……
That’s certainly the message delivered by Democrat activists and friendly media outlets like NPR. They had the audacity to tell listeners, “looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society.”
Meanwhile, CNN’s anchors like Chris Cuomo have told viewers, “Show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful.” And so, they weren’t.
Examples like these go on and on, a litany of Leftist horrors in both word and deed.
Taken together – the bigotry of the Democrat base, the violence encouraged by Democrat leaders, the actual physical harm perpetrated by hysterical followers – one can’t help but escape from the obvious conclusion: the Democrat Party has become irredeemable.”
For Democrats like me, we have no choice: we have to leave. But where do we go, politically, now that our party can no longer be salvaged? The answer is to be found in the exit data from the 2020 election…
We’re already leaving, it turns out, and joining the new, populist Republican Party……..
And no matter what one thinks of Trump the person, the message and populism he advocated for resonates with voters. It was and remains unapologetically America First, anti-war and pro-worker, focused on merit-based opportunity, judicial reform, strong borders and an unwavering commitment to law and order. To state the obvious, the Trump coalition came up short in 2020. But the vision of an America that lives up to our national motto – “Out of Many, One” – did not.
Thanks. I have shared the Daily Caller article on MeWe and FB.
Pleeb-Party? Serf Party?
“We’re already leaving, it turns out, and joining the new, populist Republican Party……..”
Actually I understand that more Republicans are leaving the Trumpy Republican Party.
On Data Download on Meet the Press a couple of weeks ago they had an interesting statistic:
17% Trump Republican Party
17% Traditional Republican Party
17% Traditional Democrat Party
17% Progressive Democrat Party.
I have more in common with the Traditional Democrat Party than the Trump Republican Party.
To quote the great Charlotte, again:
We… are aware.
When are you going to make some contrasting policy pitches? I have an idea. Why don’t you scour your guys for policy pitches and then just post them here? I’m not moving in your direction without it. I find Steve Bannon et. al. very persuasive.
On the other hand, if you don’t think that has any merit, that may be true, and it’s pretty interesting.
Why are Democrat and non-Trump GOP policies efficacious?
So this guy is a Democrat. What does that mean? It means more and more non-public goods and central planning pushing everything around. Republicans are supposed to be for less of that. This is the problem. We are so far gone to the Democrat/left side as I described that going to the right is just a bunch of theoretical idealism. There is too much government that has already screwed up too many things. We have done every single thing wrong in the face of the wage deflation and job destruction from automation and globalized labor. That’s why the populist version of the GOP makes more sense. It’s more realistic.
My favorite example is health insurance. Employer-based health insurance should have been outlawed in 1946. Everything we have done since has made it worse not better. The ACA short story is, it’s regressive taxation to force single payer. It’s totally working, too. We simply have to find a way to throw the whole country into a single actuarial pool and fund it progressively. You can do that without going full communist single payer.
Far too many things are like that right now. Then throw in Drag Queen Story Hour.
Not really. The Traditional Democratic Party doesn’t exist, and you do.
Odd how the democratic party’s history of support for all the worse institutions, cultural trends, foreign regimes, and policies for the entire history of the United States wasn’t enough to convince people that they should leave the odious party, but misbehavior of the far left in 2021 inspires a change of heart.
The Left has been wicked and antithetical to liberty since May 5, 1789 but at its core it is a rent seeking scam.
Traditional as in Slave owning, Klan enabling, tyrant supporting, genocide complicit, racist, corrupt machine politics and Socialist or some mythic “working class” party that existed in Grover Clevland’s day?
Nowadays, Democrats come in two flavors: cultural revolutionaries, and people who pretend to be cultural revolutionaries. The faux revolutionaries also come in two flavors: people who want the social advantages of radical chic, and people who want to avoid conflict at all costs.
Almost every single Democrat I know among our friends and within the family are Conflict Avoidance Democrats. Many teachers and healthcare workers are as well. They might even claim they are independent but almost always agree with Democrats. They just seem to prefer standing out of the sports of politics and hand their full trust to the the monolithic Democrat Party who promise to “take care of things”. Even in this crazy times, these group of people prefer to play ostrich and stick their heads in the sand. “Anger is bad” and we should just “all get along”. As Reagan said, loss of liberty is only a generation away. We must fight it everyday. This conflict avoidance attitude is no fight against the aggressive wave of facism. No matter how unsophisticated Trump was, I am forever thankful to him for unveiling the Democrats’ addiction of Hate & true colors to the whole world.
As I’ve said before, the entire Democratic Party is comparable to an abusive relationship. The scumbag boyfriend (the radicals and revolutionaries) manipulates his girlfriend (the conflict-avoidant and highly agreeable masses) by extending and withdrawing acceptance, strategically playing the victim, and imposing social costs on non-compliance. Just as the girlfriend refuses to recognize her predicament and get rid of the loser who’s abusing her (preferring, instead, to forgive him again and again), so, too, the majority of Democrats would rather go along to get along than stubbornly defend the old social order.
Something similar might be happening on the right, but it’s hard to tell. The right is generally more masculine in temperament, so it’s less adept at binding together its factions in such a psychologically sophisticated way. It’s more prone to (justified) paranoia and hand-wringing. And, of course, it’s pigheaded rather than compliant.
The number of people that are small government fiscally and socially conservative is small. (We meet in a phone booth.)
The sweet spot for the GOP is patriotic, liberty, medium size government focused on middle class welfare.
I advise everyone to vote for a candidate in the sweet spot in the primary. If the GOP incumbents are good, vote in the Dem primary choose people that will fight Corporate Fascism.
I’ve long wondered why/how non-crazy Democrats chose their political designation. Now I’m wondering it about non-crazy Republicans. How many of us are out here in No Party Land?
Isn’t “Conflict Avoidance” just another way of saying “cowardly”? Or is discretion the better part of valor?
He is old enough. He does support the Demoncrats.
Could be true.
Yes. As long as they are comfortable, implications don’t bother them.
I wouldn’t say all of these conflict avoidance Americans are “cowardly”. For example, a dentist friend, I am quite sure he would take a bullet for a stranger if it saves another person’s life. He has been very disappointed by both Democrats and Republicans that he rather just leave it to God. For him, it is more a sense of despair which he fills up with faith.