The Democrat Party Represents the Government

I don’t pay a great deal of attention to the mainstream media. The benefit of this is that I tend to be happier. The problem with this, of course, is that I sometimes miss the message they are trying to tell me, and sometimes that message can be rather important. This is why it has taken until today – the last day of the Biden Administration – for me to recognize three obvious truths, which the mainstream media has been patiently trying to explain to me for the past 10-20 years:

• The Democrat Party represents the government.
• The Republican Party represents the people.
• The American government is anti-American.

You may be rolling your eyes, wondering how it took me this long to figure out these obvious truths. This isn’t a remarkable insight, requiring years of research and contemplation. No. Everybody from CNN to The New York Times to freakin’ ESPN have been shouting this from the rooftops for years. I just wasn’t listening.

Our federal government has around 3 million employees, nearly all of whom went to the right schools and majored in the right things. This means that a significant majority of 3 million federal employees have been trained to believe that America is bad – defined by slavery, colonialism, environmental destruction, and exploitation of women & minorities.

Most American citizens take a different view. They think that America has its flaws, like any other country, but it has done a lot of good in the world, and that there is a good reason that people all over the world want to come here – this is a pretty nice place, filled with a lot of pretty good people.

It’s difficult for most Americans to wrap their mind around the idea that their own government doesn’t like them or the country they live in. But it’s just a matter of education and background.

It’s also difficult for the average Republican politician when he wins an election and becomes a part of the government he seeks to constrict. He presumes that his Democrat colleagues represent Democrat voters, when in fact they represent government itself. He presumes that when a government policy makes things worse rather than better, that the policy must have failed. But perhaps it succeeded. Perhaps that’s what it was supposed to do.

I view Joe Biden as the most successful president in history. What President has gotten more of his party’s goals accomplished than Biden? Maybe FDR? Maybe. But Biden has been remarkably successful from the standpoint of the Democrat party.

I used to wonder why that was, since Mr. Biden was never an intellectual powerhouse, and to make it worse, he’s been suffering from dementia for the past several years. The federal government gained power like never before on Biden’s watch. How did a lightweight like Biden accomplish that?

Simple. Because the Democrat Party is simply the party of government. And without an acting President, the government was allowed to do what it wanted. It could grow its administrative and regulatory powers with a minimum of political interference. It just grew organically, the way any power structure does, if unconstrained.

The Democrats got what they wanted. Not because they had a powerhouse President who stood up for the people who voted for him. But because the Democrat Party is the party of government, and the government was permitted to grow unimpeded for four glorious years.

I don’t think President Trump quite understood what he was up against in his first term. But I think he does now. And I think the Democrats recognize that Trump has figured all this out, and they’re scared to death.

I suspect that the next four years are going to be eventful, and extremely important. I pray that Mr. Trump survives them.

I pray that America does as well.

May God continue to bless The United States of America.