For The Sake Of America, The Democratic Party Needs To Die
This past week a frequent visitor to “The American Turkey”
Facebook page took offense to a comment that longtime Brutally Honest
readers have heard me say repeatedly almost for the whole twenty-plus years
that I’ve been doing this. In fact, I
said it just last week in my
open letter to progressives and liberals and other members of the so-called
“resistance”.
The Democratic Party needs to die.
No, I am not kidding about this. I
am not saying this lightly or in jest or in reaction to recent events or just
because we have an orange-skinned-wacky-man in the White House and billionaires
in his cabinet and fascists running roughshod in the Congress. I am not saying this just because Hillary
Clinton used her friends to get her onto the party ballot in the 2016 Farce. I can’t even say that I’m saying this out of
some partisan disgust, because I have never been nor have I ever wanted to be a
member of the Democratic Party.
Instead I am saying this as an American that has been so disgusted and so
jaded with the political process over the past few decades that it tears me up
to see America be torn apart into what is essentially a Second Civil War for the
pure benefit of K-Street and C-Street lobbyists and big corporations that are
raking in billions on top of billions in the process. I am saying this as someone who is pissed off
at the political class in Washington and in state and local governments that operate
with almost absolutely zero accountability for their actions even when they are
caught red-handed. Some of these people
should even be behind bars, but instead they are rewarded with
six-and-seven-figure salaries and speaking tours and book deals.
I am saying this because I have heard the continual script, the empty
rhetoric, and the out-and-out goddamned delusions that somehow everything can
be fixed “within the system”. They are
lies. Outright goddamned delusional
lies! I’ve known that for years! The political class have known this for
decades! The lobbyists and big
corporations have known it for almost two centuries now! The only people who don’t seem to know this…
are you, the willfully stupid and willfully ignorant sheep that continue to
regurgitate the fiction in social media and letters-to-the-editor.
You can’t say “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” when it comes
to the Democratic Party. The baby is
dead, the water is rancid, and the baby tub is badly corrupted.
Here’s a little history lesson for those of you who think that we’ve
always had these two parties: America first started with no political parties
whatsoever. None. That was actually considered a good
thing. President George Washington said
in his farewell address…
"However
[political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in
the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning,
ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the
people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying
afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
Sound
familiar? Sadly, of course, he was
proven right not long after he stepped down.
There have
been more than just two political parties in America over the two-hundred-forty
years this country has existed. Even the
“Democratic Party” has not existed by that name in all its time. It used to be called the
“Democratic-Republican Party”. And
before that, there was a party called The Federalists. Not “The Federalist Party”. Just “The Federalists”. And, no, they can’t even claim that they
created the “Republican Party” either, because they came out from the schism
that was created between the Whig Party and the Know-Nothing Party.
You see,
Trump supporters? This is why it is
important to actually learn something in school other than how to open up a
beer can or cheer at a sporting event. Now
you think about that while your billionaire donor Secretary of Education proves
why you made the biggest mistakes of your lives, and I’ll go back to further pissing
off the people who are pissed off at me this week.
Now, why
did I bring up that history lesson?
Because I want you to consider what happened to all the other parties
that have come and gone. The Federalists
and Anti-Federalists, our first political parties, did not change names over
the two centuries. They were replaced
with other political parties. Then when
those parties either became too corrupt or too impotent to carry on, they died
and were replaced with other upstart parties that would interject new vigor
into the political scene.
The GOP
itself came into existence and rose into power because the Whig Party was seen
as too corrupt and too impotent to deal with the political issues that were
literally dividing America along ideological lines. And I am not going to suggest that Abraham
Lincoln could be anywhere near what Donald Trump is today, because that would
be like comparing Gandhi to a snake oil salesman, but I will say that even his
leadership could not stop America from its Civil War. The divide was just too great at that point.
That brings
us to our time and our century, and, in our time, I have seen the Democratic
Party flounder time and time again. Yes,
they have brought up some good leaders. They
have championed some good movements. But,
more often than not, they have produced and propped up those that have proven
President Washington’s farewell words true over and over again, and most of
them are still there in position of power in Congress and in the Democratic
Party.
The House
Minority Leader, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, is the biggest living example of
this. She ended up being Speaker of the
House for a few years, in which time she did very little other than to
rubber-stamp whomever was in the White House.
Then when she lost that job because her party lost control over the
Congress, she wasn’t upset or pissed or even offered to change anything. Why should she? After all, she kept her cushy seat. And after the 2016 Farce, when she somehow
got re-elected to the minority leadership position, she publicly announced that
her plan to regain control of the House would be the same plan that she had
before 2006… which was to simply wait until the willfully stupid and willfully
ignorant voters get sick of the GOP and vote them out of power.
That is not
leadership, people! That is the
mentality of an incompetent slacker. And
what is worse is that it is a slacker that got re-elected by her own peers in
Congress while there was a viable alternative running against her. So what does that say about the whole party
contingent there? I mean, you Dems are
so pissed off at the people who voted for Donald Trump, but why aren’t you also
pissed about the same contingent of losers and slackers that just re-elected a
proven incompetent slacker to your party’s minority leadership position in
Congress?
And let’s
not forget the Senate’s newest minority leader, Chuck Shumer, shall we? Oh, he who promised to hold Trump and the GOP
accountable has been painfully silent these past two weeks. The GOP majority in
the Senate approved two uncontested rule changes to muscle in three of Trump’s
cabinet appointments and then invoked an archaic rule to silence a female
Senator on the floor of the Senate from speaking out against a third. Where was “Senator Hold-Them-To-Account” in
those instances?
Senate
Majority Leader Mitch The Bitch McConnell may be a jawless turtle-dick, but at
least he’s out there exercising the power he shouldn’t have. Where’s Shumer? He’s been even more of a “Low Energy” person these
past two weeks than even Jeb Bush!
Meanwhile
the Democratic National Committee is busy trying to decide who should “lead”
the party after their own corrupt embarrassments were laid bare just last
year. You can blame the Russians all you
like, but the truth of the matter is that the DNC got exposed as the corrupt
and incompetent group that they are, and that played a factor in the national
election as well. Why should anyone with
even a scintilla of ethics and decency be willing to step up and put their name
and their own reputation at risk for a party that would rather favor
incompetence and mediocrity?
Look at
what happened to Senator Bernie Sanders!
Here’s someone with energy, someone who honestly cared about what was
going on in this nation, and he was tapping into the discontent of those that
the Democrats needed to have on their side, and not only was he intentionally
cock-blocked by the leadership of the Democratic National Committee to favor
Hillary Clinton, but he was then coerced into betraying everything he said on
the campaign trail to endorse the candidate that represented everything he
previously opposed. And you want to
question why some people who supported Bernie ended up supporting Trump? If you are one of the people that are asking
that, then you are part of the problem that needs to be removed before there
can be a solution.
I know the
script says that America cannot be a fascist state because there are supposedly
two dominant political parties, but let’s get brutally honest here… when one of
those parties is proven to be useless and impotent, then you don’t have “two
dominant parties” anymore! All you have
is one party – the GOP – and an institutional scapegoat that you can beat up on
a regular basis like Emmanuel Goldstein was in George Orwell’s classic book
“Nineteen Eighty-Four”.
And if you
think that I am exaggerating about that, then you have not been listening to
what talk radio and Breitbart and Fox News and the conservative columnists have
been saying about the Democrats as a party and anyone in general not matching
up to their definition of “conservative”.
They have been treating the Democrats and the liberals and progressives
and the media as a whole bunch of Emmanuel Goldsteins… and that tactic has paid
off with an orange-skinned-wacky-man in the White House, with Steve Bannon and
Kellyanne Conway and Hack Sean Spicer by his side, with a theo-conservative as
Vice President, the GOP controlling all three branches of government and Fox
News dominating the cable news scene. In
other words, Democrats, you didn’t just lose, you failed.
The baby is
dead, the bathwater is rancid, and the tub is corrupt.
Nobody that
puts a “(D)” next to their name, or those that support the party of that same
letter should ever – ever – be proud of the fact that the last election was one
where the two dominant parties were actually campaigning on the premise that
their candidate was not as bad as the other one! You should be embarrassed by
that! You should be so disgusted by that
kind of tactic that you would demand the immediate resignation of every single
politician in that party! And I am pissed
off by the fact that most of you are not!
And to top
it all off… and try to keep up with me on this... we have said
orange-skinned-wacky-man who claimed during the campaign that the election
system was rigged, that still won the GOP nomination, that still claimed the
system was rigged, that actually won the election through the Electoral College,
that continued to claim that the election system was rigged even after he won,
that fought every effort at holding a recount that would either confirm or
reject his assertion that the election system was rigged, and still to
this very day claims that the election system was rigged and is demanding a
full investigation to prove it. And the
person that was pushing for that recount… was Jill Stein of the Green
Party! Not the Democrats! Not Hillary Clinton! Certainly not Incompetent Pelosi or Low
Energy Shumer. No. Jill Stein, who had absolutely nothing at all
to gain from any kind of recount, was the one that tried to hold Donald Trump
to account for his claim that he won in a rigged system. If that is not a sign of gross incompetence
for the Democrats, I don’t know what is.
That’s why
I say, for the continued future of the United States of America, that the
Democratic Party needs to go. It has
become a party of losers, being led by losers, and has become good at only one
thing, and that is losing. They need to
be held to account for their miserable choices in Washington and they need to
step down. That is the only way they can
truly stop the GOP, because the GOP is counting on the Democrats to continue
being the failures that they are. They
want Shumer and Pelosi right where they are!
They want the Democrats to be huddled around trying to see which
also-ran and wannabe and “destiny” party players would somehow do something
different.
Because
they know the truth about the Dems. They
know that the baby is dead, the bathwater is rancid, and the tub called the Democratic
Party is corrupt. And it needs to go before there can be real change.
And it’s
not like there would be a vacuum once the Democrats step down. The Green Party and the Libertarian Party
would gladly fight over who would fill that void, and dollars-to-donuts say
they would do a far better job than the Democrats because they wouldn’t be
hamstringed by those aforementioned also-rans and wannabes and “destiny” party
players. The Greens have already proven
they are willing to speak out against the Cult of Trump with the recount
effort. If you’re part of the so-called
“resistance”, wouldn’t you want a political party that would actually welcome
that?
In any
other competition in America and the world, we celebrate what we consider to be
the best. The World Series is about
which of the two best baseball teams that year are the best. The Super Bowl is about which of the two best
football teams that year are the best. The
Olympics are held every four years to see which athlete in which nation is the
best. But take a campaign to see who
should be the leader of the United States of America, with the power to
literally destroy the whole world dozens of times over, and here we are told as
part of our continual political script that we need to choose the one that is
not-as-worse than the other. That is not
something that you should take pride in.
That is not something that you should be telling your children to
cherish and defend and even join the military and risk your life to support. That is not a sign of any kind of “exceptionalism”! That should be a sign of shame and disgust
and embarrassment, and something that needs to be put out of our collective
misery.
Think back
to the 1850’s. Do you really think that
the people behind the Whig Party wanted to stand down? Do you think they wanted the party to
splinter like it did into the Know-Nothings and the GOP? No, of course not! They were saying the very same things I’ve
been hearing for twenty years from the Dems and the GOP. “You can only change it from the
inside.” “There have always been only
two parties… never mind those other ones.”
And, of course, “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.”
Except that
at some point the people in the Whig Party had to accept that their time was
done. They had to accept…
… that the
baby was dead, the bathwater was rancid, and the tub was corrupt.
And now the
Democrats need to accept it as well.
Their baby
is dead. Their bathwater is rancid. And their political tub is corrupt. And it all needs to go.
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