Democrat/Liberal Hold on the Voter

I’m still fascinated and depressed at the hold Democrats/Liberals have over people.  They have a history of involving us in most of our Wars [the Gulf Wars excepted]: WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and many minor skirmishes: Bosnia, Serbia, African aspirin factories.  They define themselves with higher taxes, ever-greater spending of our money, over-spending on social programs to the result of bloated, poorly working efforts, reduction of appropriate defense spending and operation, and an excessive ‘pork’ or ‘earmark’ policy to keep the voters loyal to them.  And then they top it off by claiming to be anti-war.

Democrat/Liberal Lyndon Johnson micro-managed a excursion to Vietnam, thus insuring a loss.  Jimmy Carter promised hope, blamed Americans for the national malaise, couldn’t free the hostages in Iran, and both went to the bottom of the Presidential list.  Neither one was particularly religious in outlook, either.

There are, of course, some exceptions to the Democrat = Liberal equation.  And there is a difference between today’s Democrat/Liberal and those from the past.  In the past, the Liberal was for personal freedom—especially about personal effort and wealth accumulation—appropriate religious influence [i.e. Founding Fathers], individual parenting, accurate education—you know, truth and morality.  The revered Democrat, St John F Kennedy, would never have considered himself a Liberal within the modern definition.  He knew that reducing taxes increases federal tax collections.  But despite the definitive history of this knowledge, Democrats/Liberals continue to want higher taxes to cover the costs of their social policies.

But the modern Democrat/Liberal is different: high taxes, unequal wealth re-distribution from one group to another, thus an attempt to negate the concept of personal effort to gain wealth; throwing money at problems, resulting in more and more money for less and less success; the removal of faith and religious influence from anything remotely the ‘state’ or group politics; more and more of the ‘nanny’ state involvement in a personal life; biased and inaccurate education, sometimes akin to Liberal brainwashing.

So, the involvement of the Liberal in ‘faith outreach’ is not only hypocritical to the real nature of the Liberal, but quite laughable in it’s obvious political use.

The Democrats/Liberals are interested in votes, power, and personal aggrandizement.  They’ll use anything to defeat and destroy their opponents.  [Consider Al Gore and Al Frankenstein] Faith outreach is just one more arena in which the Democrat/Liberal will try to mislead the public.  While it may work on some people, the citizens of the US who understand the real nature of the Democrats/Liberals will see through their hypocritical and dangerous efforts.

These politicians and power brokers know it’s important for the votes and theoretical political backing for them to pursue policies perpetuating moral and economic decline seen in single motherhood, gay ‘marriage’, over-burdened small business [taxes and regulations], racial preferences, and liberal bias in all areas of culture.

All voters should read between the lines with politicians and hold them to a standard of faith, morality, and truthfulness.  Unfortunately, I don’t know any of them who could stand up to a real ‘Faith Outreach.’  Consequently, I expect their efforts to be faithfully futile.

Our president-elect is one of these Liberals, perhaps even a devout socialist.  His choices for cabinet positions and other government offices show his socialist bent—and his ‘change’ is one that brings back many from the Clinton administration.  His other announced and ‘secret’ efforts will fritter away family oriented-religious-free society as we used to know it.  PCism and Liberal thought police are turning us into a Country of penned sheep who will believe what Liberals say instead of what they do—not that the latter is particularly good for us.

How blacks can continue to vote Democrat all the time is beyond me.  The Democrats have hurt them and promoted selfish attitudes and policies to keep their votes for years, and the Liberal press remains quiet.  Racial preferences do little more than provide a fish bowl existence for the blacks and other ‘minorities’, and harm their potential acceptance as real doers and achievers.  But these Democrat/Liberal race and ‘minority’preferences, and the use of the ‘race card’ wherever possible are the bane of our modern culture.  Does anyone really think Governor Blagojevich picked Roland Burris for his exceptional talent worthy of Senatorship?

And the Liberal NY Times is not the only part of the media blaming George Bush for just about everything.  I expect we’ll be hearing a President Obama echoing the sentiment for many years.  [Please God!  Don't let him and the Democrats get voted in again.]  As anyone knows, this present economic debacle was many many years and decades in the making, and the Democrat Congresses can shoulder a lot of blame—though the Liberal media wouldn’t even report such truths.  It’s easier to blame the Republicans.  And all this money [debt] being thrown about is a disgrace for the free enterprise system.  You can’t save all companies and firms and individuals from ruin.  It’s economically and morally wrong.  And it’s a continuing effort that will lead to national bankruptcy and moral ruin.

Well, gird yourself and get ready for the next four years [or two years, depending on how much damage the Democrats can do.]  It’s likely to be a real free-for-all.

Mark His Words

Many authors in times past have had unique commentary on the politics of the time.  None seemed particularly enamored of politicians in general or Congressmen [male or female, and to include the Senators] in particular.  And among the greater minds commenting on this subject was Mark Twain.

“Fleas can be taught anything that a Congressman can.”

Congress isn’t very popular these days—and with good reason.  Over the last few years in particular, the work of Congress hasn’t been above average in any way.  Bills and attitudes have been far away from the good of the people but close to the interests of the same Congressmen and their friends.

“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.  But I repeat myself.”

Some Congressmen have been investigated for wrong-doing—though nowhere near enough—some convicted, and some running for the hills of their home states.  And we still have un-convicted [and convicted] Ku Klux Klanners, manslaughterers, and bribe takers representing us.  Constituent approval ratings have hovered in the single digits.  Yet these criminals continue to be elected and ply their ‘wares.’

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”

And what about our courts?  Noteworthy is the Supreme Court, where there may be several replacement justices in the next several years.  They won’t be Conservatives, that’s for sure.

“I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat — and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.”

Unfortunately, a Liberal judge will always gum up the wheels of progress.  There is a solid track record here.  Legislating from the bench has been and will always be a problem—and yet it remains so very popular.

And what about the current crop of ‘journalists?’  I speak softly there because the journalism today is not what it has been in the past.  It was more civil back in Twain’s day, and he still had little good to say about the practitioners.  Even in Franklin Roosevelt’s time there was more civility.  Case in point was the unwritten rule that no photographs of the President’s crutches and braces were ever shown in the newspapers or newsreals.  There were other such civilities from the press, notably in the war where so many embedded journalists wrote about the war with the idea of a victory in mind.  Today, America is at fault—especially President Bush—for seemingly every conflict and problem in the World.

“That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.”

So, it seems Mark Twain—more than a hundred years ago—recognized the present and future pulse of Congress and Journalism.  We’ve seen both fail us in numerous ways, and I don’t expect it to stop.  It’s too bad honest people in Congress never seem to get the important leadership positions.  If they could, they might be able to raise the Congressional approval rating a few points.

‘Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.’