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Concocting analogies to describe the current Democratic Party can be an amusing hobby. But amusing analogies, even if accurate, do not necessarily lead to effective Republican strategies. Sometimes the analogy just leads to despair.
If you do your Christmas shopping at the mall, as opposed to online, you are likely to come upon one of the most pitiful humans on earth: a parent, or parents, trying to deal with a small child in the middle of a public meltdown.
The child brain is not yet able to understand how the real world works. The child’s world works like this: they articulate what he or she want, and then Mom and/or Dad says either "Yes" or "No" to the request. Sometimes the “No” is resisted or protested, and sometimes the parent changes their mind. Unfortunately, sometimes the child becomes convinced that all “No’s” can be converted to “Yes” if the child just demands what he or she wants loud enough, and long enough.
The base of the current Democratic Party has the intellectual and emotional depth of a three-year-old. It is able to articulate what it wants, but it is intellectually incapable of understanding how and why the real world should, or could, give them what they want. And, the base is convinced it can, and should, get what it wants. The members need only demand it loud enough and long enough.
The leadership of the Democratic Party tried to tell the base that the party lost the election and that Republicans now controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House, and that the base would not get anything it wanted for a while. The base then yelled at leadership and said they could get what they wanted if elected Democrats just FOUGHT HARD ENOUGH. At this point, the proper response should have been elected Democrat office holders telling the base to ShutUp and GrowUp. Instead, the office holders began using four-letter words to demonstrate how hard they were fighting.
Back in March 2025, the base wanted to shut down the government to get what it wanted. Back in March, Chuck Schumer was a responsible adult. He refused to shut down the government and calmly explained why the tactic would not work. The base then threw a tantrum. A long tantrum. Six months later, Chuck Schumer caved.
It would be wrong to hold Chuck Schumer solely responsible. Dad always caves when Mom doesn’t have his back. No one had Chuck’s back in March. No one has his back now. At the moment, the Democratic Party has no responsible adults except for crazy Uncle Fetterman, and nobody listens to him.
The real world, however, continues to exist. The cancellation of student loans will continue to NOT happen. Reparations and socialism will continue to NOT happen. New York City will go on being unaffordable. ICE will continue to perform its lawful duties. And, worst of all, Donald Trump will continue to be president.
There is no good news in this analogy. Spoiled children do not spontaneously mature. Responsible adult intervention is required, and none appears on the horizon. The formerly responsible Chuck Schumer now actively placates the screaming child, as does every Democrat who fancies a presidential run in 2028. (Fetterman would have to wear a coat and tie to run for president. He won’t run.)
Worse still, some children become violent as they melt down. Charlie Kirk and a health insurance CEO have been gunned down by children unable to comprehend that murder is wrong.w
The next big event will be the 2026 Democratic primaries. Which camp will produce more votes? Camp Responsible Adult or Camp Spoiled Child? More importantly, what will the losing camp do after losing the primaries? Leave the party, or stay?
I see nothing the Republican Party can do to shape the future of the Democratic Party. Just as intervening in the mall is rarely helpful, intervening in someone else’s civil war is never wise.
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I do. Enact more common sense laws and rules, then enforce them. Force recalcitrant state and local governments to put criminals behind bars, and to hold charged violent offenders without bail.
Doing this will shape the future of the Democrat Party, which is to become the home of lunatics and authoritarians. Their numbers will shrink, while independents and Republicans will grow. Former Democrats-turned-independent will vote for Republicans if we continue on the 80/20 issue path . . .
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The Republicans should engage in good governance for all the normal reasons. Shaping the future of the Democratic Party, however, is not one of the normal reasons.
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Reality feedback is mansplaining and probably racist.
It does not matter that not even most Democrats want illegal alien rapists running loose, rampant crime, energy shortages, partisan moron judicial appointments... because Trump!! or whatever substitute demon is feared. You are not listening or respecting my feelings if you point out that I vote for lunatics and corrupt swine.
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It is set up very carefully so that neither party will experience the necessary reform activities.
That way voters carefully ping pong ball back & forth between R's one election cycle & D's the next. How is this done? For the most part, indie voters are the culprits.
The people at the top of the parties, often people hidden from view, orchestrate the divisions among the public as each year we find it harder to talk to people on the other side of the aisle.
When meaningful discussions should pop up, they are shot down by insipid talking points. For instance, being distracted over how Elizabeth Warren used her 1/1024th Native American heritage to finagle her way into college meant the public never woke up to important facts.
One such important fact was how Warren presided over an Agency Of Consumer Protections that offered little in the way of protection.
That agency: "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau" came into existence in 2011, and gobbled up much of Warren's time and lots of taxpayer monies. But meanwhile, banks enacted more and more hideous policies. For instance if someone scams one of your accounts, and you don't realize it for 92 days, you are out of luck as banks only offer 60 to 90 days to realize such embezzling.
Republicans vowed to do in this bureau, rather than insist it actually do some heavy lifting in terms of reforming banking sector, tech sector and more. So we've gotten the worst of all possible worlds - a bureau that doesn't do much but does continue to feed at the taxpayer money trough.
Few things cheese me off more than my paying 60 bucks for something "designed to work with Windows 10 & 11" and only after my money clears do I find it really only works with Mac/Apple products. But no worries - the tech company will shoot my money back to me, sometime after they hold on to it for 60 days.
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