“For
every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will
pick up two, three moderate Republicans in the suburbs of
Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and
Wisconsin.”
----Senator
Chuck Schumer (D-Wall Street) (1)
If
one were to seek an explanation of what has gone wrong with the
Democratic Party one would have to look no further than the face of
the Party in the United States Senate. I am referring here to none
other than Wall Street's very own senator, Chuck Schumer.
Here,
precisely, is what is wrong with the Democratic Party. Frank Bruni,
writing recently in The New York Times, (2) describes how the
Democrats are becoming the new Republicans. By foisting Caesar
Disgustus upon the nation, the Rescumlickan Party has made a mockery
of the political high ground; the defense of which has always been
transparently fraudulent.
Bruni
points out that it is the Democrats who now claim defense of family
values, whatever that means, by promoting gay marriage and defending
the social safety net, efforts directed at forming increasingly
heterodox families and keeping them together. Democrats are now the
party of patriotism by calling out the Russians for violating our
political process as well as our political institutions actions
against which tRUMP's nonsense about NFL players appear laughable.
Democrats are the party of national security defending as they do the
network of alliances that have kept peace between the major powers
for three quarters of a century. Democrats are also the party of law
and order defending the FBI and our intelligence services from savage
attacks by the White House and the minions of Disgustus in the
Congress and the media.
It
is right and proper that the Democracy once again reclaims its role
as champion of these values, a claim that has been brought into
serious question by the fraudulence and hypocrisy of the conservative
movement as manifest in the Rescumlickan Party.
But,
unfortunately, the party of “fiscal responsibility”, is also now
the party of Wall Street.
By
ratifying Reagan and the Bush's several assaults on the tax code, the
Democrats began a long slide down the path of perdition that led, by
degrees, to deregulation and the savaging of the safety net. It led
by the Obama years, into accepting the Rescumlican drivel about the
need for austerity in times of recession, unlearning by degrees
painful historical lessons. It led to the abandonment of unions.
Indeed, the Democratic Party—since the day the Carter
Administration folded its tents over labor legislation—has raised
nary a voice in support of organized labor and the working man and
woman that unions protect. These policies have resulted in stagnant
wages, prolonging hardship in times of recession, burdening our young
with crushing debts, and the decline of the middle classes in the
United States.
In
sum, the Democrats, becoming material accomplices in the dismantling
of the New Deal, betrayed the Middle Classes that the party created
and nurtured. The doors were left open for the rise of a Populist
Revolt in the form first of the Teabaggers and then the tRUMPists.
With
the elevation of Caesar Disgustus the Democrats presented the country
with a new leader in the Senate: none other than the face of Wall
Street. Accordingly, we are now about to see the Senate take up a
measure repealing several provisions of the Dodd-Frank law, the tepid
congressional response to the crash of 2008 with—you guessed
it—bipartisan support. No stone, it appears, will be left
unturned as Democrats tirelessly strive to transform their party into
the Republican Party of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. At this
writing, not only has Richard Durbin, the Minority Whip of the
Senate, but a dozen other Democrats, including both Senators Peters
and Stabenow of Michigan have pledged support for yet another effort
by Democratic office holders to transform the party into the
Rescumlican Party of our fathers and grandfathers.
This
is what happens when the party of the working people has been sold
out to Wall Street; and this is why the Democratic Party lost control
of both houses of Congress, two thirds of the state legislatures and
the White House. No, Chuck, the strategy hasn't worked. It didn't
work in Wisconsin, or Ohio, or Pennsylvania, or Michigan. It hasn't
worked in Iowa or Kansas or the former Democratic strongholds of West
Virginia, Kentucky or Tennessee. By ceding vast swaths of this
country, from the Appalachians to the rust belt, the Democrats have
allowed Caesar Disgustus to sneak in through the back door; for the
staggering stupidity that inspired the Clinton-led DLC and its latest
incarnation called The Third Way is still with us as the
entrenched mossbacks that lead this party continue to sacrificed not
only the noble tradition of the Democratic Party, but the middle
class and with it the American Heartland in the not-so-noble pursuit
of Rescumlican votes.
Enter
Caesar Disgustus.
“an'
Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”
Impeach
and Imprison.
__________________
- Bruni, Frank. “Democrats Are the New Republicans. “The New York Times”Wednesday, December 20, 2017. Page A27
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