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Home Front: Politix
Why The Democratic Party Is Doomed
2011-07-19
The Democratic Party, as we have known it for the past 70 years, is now in its last days.

Yes, the House Republicans may raise the debt ceiling for a mix of spending cuts and revenue raisers. Yes, Barack Obama may win the 2012 presidential contest. Yes, bureaucrats and judges will continue to impose new and costly regulations on the economy.

But it doesn't matter. The long-term trends are almost all bad news for the left wing of the party.

This week's fight over raising the federal debt limit exposes a key weakness in the warfare-welfare state that has bestowed power onto the Democratic Party: Without an ever-growing share of the economy, it dies. Every vital element of the Democrats' coalition -- unions, government workers, government contractors, "entitlement" consumers -- requires constant increases in payments, grants and consulting contracts. Without those payments, they don't sign checks to re-elect Democrats.

Like it or not, Obama is not the new FDR, but the new Gorbachev: a man forced to preside over the demise of a political system he desperately wants to save.

Democrat champions in the punditocracy confidently predict that the future of the world's oldest political party is bright. But in fact, the coalition that is the modern Democratic Party is doomed. Every pillar upholding its heavy roof is crumbling.
Interesting OpEd from Forbes. Explains why the dhimocrats are so trying to force their will on the public. They know they are doomed unless they make themselves indispensable and force everyone to rely on them.
Posted by:DarthVader

#13  What's going on at Forbes?


They're also running MMGW is hooey articles.

I may have to subscribe.
Posted by: anonymous2u   2011-07-19 20:23  

#12  ...how will they fight?

Look no further than our present Dictator in Chief for the answer: lie constantly, blame everyone else for every problem and depend on the leftist media to loudly trumpet that your lies are, in fact, truth. The percentage of low-information voters & tax eaters in the population will guarantee the utility of that paradigm for another generation.

Even the inevitible crash will be blamed on anyone but the Democrats who precipitated it (see e.g., the recent housing bubble / bust for a likely outcome).

Fact is we're stuck with a no-growth, high-tax, ultra-regulated nation and not even the coming economic devastation will dislodge those who've driven us here.

Posted by: AzCat   2011-07-19 19:23  

#11  "Joe Isuzu comes to mind."

Naaahhh. Joe actually sold something useful.
Posted by: Barbara   2011-07-19 19:18  

#10  Obama is not the new FDR, but the new Gorbachev

Joe Isuzu comes to mind.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-07-19 17:57  

#9  RJ: I understood that at the first meeting after the atom bomb was dropped, the Japanese held a strategy meeting where the general feeling was that they'd have to negotiate something, but OF COURSE they'd be able to keep Korea.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-07-19 15:34  

#8  I suspect the Democrats will move to a more centrist, less Marxist, and less anti-American model. More like they were before the baby-boomers. I suspect they'll remain corrupt, but hide it a bit better.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2011-07-19 14:55  

#7   Obama is not the new FDR, but the new Gorbachev

Actually, he's the new Carl Icann, dismantling his acquisitions

Posted by: Mercutio   2011-07-19 13:48  

#6  What is worrisome is who will replace the Dhimmis? The libs are set to fail not just in US but in Europe and the collapse makes us ripe for a "new" system--monetary and otherwise. Any dictator that seems to calm the chaos will be heralded as the Messiah.....
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091   2011-07-19 13:36  

#5  All things being equal, I think the author of the article is correct given that public money is the glue holding the Democratic party together and the money is running out. I don't see the party going down without a fight so the question becomes, how will they fight?

It's pretty obvious that their current strategy, i.e. the 0Bama strategy, is to curry as much favor as possible with their constituents via government largess while demonizing the opposition using class warfare rhetoric. We've already seen this for some time now and it's proven relatively effective for the Democrats up to a point.

Will they be able to sustain it? As things currently stand, that seems unlikely. Or at least once can hope.
Posted by: eltoroverde   2011-07-19 12:57  

#4  The entire enterprise is corrupt as sin.
Absolutely zero redeeming qualities with that party.

It's pure evil - to hell with them. All of em.
Posted by: newc   2011-07-19 11:55  

#3  they are doomed unless they make themselves indispensable and force everyone to rely on them.

That is what happened in Minnesota. It turned out the only reason we needed government was to issue liquor licences and fishing permits.

One sad example was the sale of Miller beer: They needed to file for a permit to do business in the state, and pay a fee. Miller did all that, but the gov employees did not process the application before the shutdown. Therefore Miller still can not replenish any sales outlet in the state.
Posted by: Frozen Al   2011-07-19 11:26  

#2  Procopius2k:

I would argue that FDR was the first US President who did not feel constrained by the Constitution. He and Hoover both had the same approach to the Great Depression. What they did differed mainly in degree, and that was because Hoover did consider the Constitution to act as an outer limit on government power.
Posted by: Iblis   2011-07-19 11:19  

#1  Obama is not the new FDR, but the new Gorbachev:

Marxist, socialist, redistributionist, regardless. Far closer to the mark. At least FDR had to twist and wiggle trying to fit his acts within the Constitution, Obama really doesn't care a hoot about the Constitution other than being a sacred social relic to force people to obey him.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-07-19 11:03  

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