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Quote of the Day: Democrats
At some point, Democrats became the party of small-town people who think they’re too big for their small towns. It is hard to say how it happened: Perhaps it is that Republicans’ primary appeal is to something small-towners take for granted (tradition), while Democrats’ is to something that small-towners are condemned for lacking (diversity). Both appeals can be effective, but it is only the latter that incites people to repudiate the culture in which they grew up. Perhaps it is that at universities – through which pass all small-town people aiming to climb to a higher social class – Democratic party affiliation is the sine qua non of being taken for a serious, non-hayseed human being.
For these people, liberalism is not a belief at all. No, it’s something more important: a badge of certain social aspirations. That is why the laments of the small-town leftists get voiced with such intemperance and desperation. As if those who voice them are fighting off the nagging thought: If the Republicans aren’t particularly evil, then maybe I’m not particularly special.
Five-term Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was recently informed by officials that she will not seek a sixth term. According to an anonymous source familiar with the matter, when apprised of her intentions, the former chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee was eating an entrée of rice pudding prepared by her longtime personal chef and Chinese spy Li Wang.
I’ve always been fascinated about the reasons why people make certain choices in their lives, especially when they make terrible choices, when I think perfectly sensible and practical options are glaringly obvious. At least to me. For that reason, I’ve read dozens of explanations for why the Democrat voters made such bewildering choices in the mid-term elections. Some of the reasons of observers made sense; others made no sense (to me). Some of the writers blamed the Republicans for their poor promotions, candidate selections and naivete about how elections actually work; others were certain that fraud was at play, and the Democrats, once again, have taken us for a ride.
Some people hate Republicans. Others hate Democrats. But everybody hates polling firms.
