Talk like a normal person

Dear moderate Democrats,

First, thank you. For over a hundred years, you have resisted your party’s habit of drifting left. You were not always successful, but the country is in your debt for your efforts.

Second, a sad question: Do you still exist? You have been in the silent underground for 16 long years. Do you have any fight left?

Back then, the left of your party tried to intimidate Republicans by claiming any criticism or dissent from Obama’s policies was racist. It didn’t work on Republicans, but it sure as hell scared you into total silence. Then Trump happened, and "Russia, Russia, Russia," and COVID gave you no oxygen or space to maneuver. But Biden was supposed to be your guy. You rallied behind him to deprive Bernie of the nomination. But after election night you were dumped. Staff, Cabinet picks, Judges, and policies went more left under Biden than Obama. You were totally dissed and you just took it.

Harris lost badly. The appropriate response is obvious. Swing back to the center. That is always your party’s response after it loses by going too far left. Your Party is currently polling at record lows. Your party repeatedly chooses the 20% side of every 20/80 issue. Chuck Schumer is unacceptable because he declined to shut down the government. The only Democrats currently drawing crowds are two avowed socialists — AOC and Bernie Sanders.

What are you waiting for? There is a leadership vacuum, and no moderates are even trying to fill it.

• How hard is it to say illegal foreign gangsters should be deported?
• How hard is it to say the border wall should be completed?
• How hard is it to say biological men should not be in women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, or athletic competitions?
• How hard is it to say prepubescent bodies should not be permanently altered in cases of gender confusion?
• How hard is it to say that a 37 trillion dollar deficit is too large and that cutting waste, fraud, and abuse is a good idea?
• How hard is it to say children under 6 should not be taught that all whites are racists and that gender is fluid?
• How hard is it to say that Martin Luther King got it right and Critical Race Theorists get it wrong — all of us, black and white, should be judged by the content of our character and not by the color of our skin?
• How hard is it to say “All lives Matter”?
• How hard is it to say that the terror atrocities of October 7 can no more be justified than the terror atrocities of September 11?
• How hard is it to say Hamas is the moral equivalent of Al Qaeda?
• How hard is it to say that any President of an American college who cannot guarantee the safety of its Jewish students should be fired?
• How hard is it to acknowledge that toxic masculinity is a myth?
• How hard is it to say that January 6 was a deplorable riot, but it was not an insurrection and harsh sentences for the nonviolent were wrong?

If you think of yourself as a moderate Democrat, the above list gives you multiple opportunities to end your 16-year silence. Continued silence in today’s circumstances leads this observer to conclude that, sadly, you no longer exist. Saying the things in the above list does not require courage. The majority of Americans agree with everything listed above. If you want to show some courage, say that Donald Trump, the duly elected President of the United States, is not a fascist, is not a dictator, and is not comparable to Adolf Hitler in any way. Say Republicans in Congress are patriotic Americans who genuinely want what is best for America. Say you look forward to working with Republicans to reach bipartisan solutions to our problems.

In other words, how hard is it to talk like a normal person?

Moderate Democrats used to talk that way all the time. The bus is heading for the cliff and there is no one at the wheel. If not now, when?

Here is one more thing ALL Democrats used to say. It has been historically proven that regulated Capitalism can lift millions out of poverty, and that Socialism drives millions into poverty.

Moderate Democrats, one last question: If your party is now controlled by the far left, and if normal people are no longer welcome, why remain a Democrat?

G-Pub