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R. Emmett Tyrrell: Reform the Democratic Party
They should show the Pubs how it's done.[Creators.com] The political party that is forever lecturing Republicans on the need to reform themselves lest they go the way of the Tyrannosaurus rex is now in danger of becoming at one with the Tyrannosaurus rex. The party's alarmed potentates met over the weekend, having finally noticed that the autumn elections did not go so well for them after all. Sorry, I missed that in the news. Secret meeting? Some have speculated on change — change not for their Republican opponents, but change for them, the Democrats. Some Democrats less stupefied by ideological rigorism noted that Sen. Bernie Sanders might not be the wave of the future. Crazy Bernie's socialism is not in the cards for a winning political party here in these United States. No, no, we just have to try harder! Nor is defunding the police, packing the Supreme Court, replacing the internal combustion engine with sails or s  Maybe it is time for the Democrats to listen to those closer to the center than to Congressgirl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her squad of harpies. By the way, does the term "squad" not bring to mind violence? Was not violence what we experienced in Washington on Jan. 6? I think the American people have made their views very clear on the Jan. 6 riot. My suggestion to Democrats is that they give violence a wide berth. The Republicans are not embracing the Proud Boys on their right. I would suggest the Democrats keep the antifa and adepts of Black Lives Matter at arm's length, too. The same goes for a group of left-wing extremists who travel in a squad on Capitol Hill. The term puts many of us in mind of young Germans who once traveled in groups wearing brown shirts.There was in the Democratic Party a strain of thought that once provided renewal to the old boss-ridden party in Northern cities and to Democrats in the one-party South. It was called the reform movement. It was particularly strong in the North. The reformers centered around political people such as former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, former Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins and former Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. The movement got journalistic support from the muckrakers, people such as Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens and Ida M. Tarbell. Until recent years, people such as Ralph Nader and Charles Peters carried its tattered banner. That so few names spring to mind now suggests how in need of a resurgence the reform movement is. Would-be reformers that are active today waste their time on the easy targets such as the National Rifle Association and on hopeless causes. Today's would-be reformers ought to spend their time where their reforming impulse is really needed. They ought to spend it trying to reform the Democratic Party. Posted by: Bobby 2021-02-26 |
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