Thursday, July 01, 2004
TODAY'S REAL POST
I know this is unusual, twice in one day. But I felt that the post below was time-sensitive. Turns out I WAS first with the observation.
Anyway...on with the real post for today:
I have heard for some time now from listeners that we no longer have a two-party system...that Republicans and Democrats are pretty much the same. On some issues, it’s a close tie...but there may be welcome news on the horizon. We ARE seeing a separation of the parties.
One small aside: It’s strange to hear those that complain about how similar the parties are, lament the fact that America is deeply divided.
Anyway...we have a political candidate who is actively courting the conspiracy theory rage against the Bush machine crowd. These are the angered "cafe revolutionaries" who have a litany of grudges against the status quo. We have national party leaders actively cheering Michael Moore during a screening of his Bush-bashing conspiracy laden schlock film Fahrenheit 9/11. It used to be bad news for Republicans to have the likes of David Duke calling himself a Republican when he ran for the US Senate...yet Democrats welcome (or at least avoid confronting) these nutcases to their constituency.
Thankfully, recently the Bush administration dubbed them, "The Coalition of the Wild-Eyed"...very appropriate.
So, I guess I want to say to those members of the above who believe...
--The Republicans impeached Clinton for adultery and nothing more and they want payback
--The Bush Supreme Court stole the election in 2000
--The President KNEW
--It’s a war for oil buddies
--Bush pre-ordained an Iraq invasion prior to September 11th
--Iraq was fine while contained by the UN
--We need France to really make our military better...
Your party members may be paying you lip-service to get your cash and passion invested in their campaign, but your anger isn’t a means to a coherent policy. If Democrat party leaders were smart, they will soon start ignoring you – and maybe even actively disassociating themselves from your weirdness. But here’s the good news...we ARE seeing the separation of the parties for now...and because of it, you’ll always be out of power. The American choice between Democrats and Republicans has always been about smaller vs larger government. Democrats have been losing...a lot. So Democrats must rely on your fears, your anger, and irrational emotion-filled conspiracy theories...and the American people (as we recently saw) appreciate the positive and hopeful vision of a "shining city on a hill"...Ronald Reagan still lives.
I know this is unusual, twice in one day. But I felt that the post below was time-sensitive. Turns out I WAS first with the observation.
Anyway...on with the real post for today:
I have heard for some time now from listeners that we no longer have a two-party system...that Republicans and Democrats are pretty much the same. On some issues, it’s a close tie...but there may be welcome news on the horizon. We ARE seeing a separation of the parties.
One small aside: It’s strange to hear those that complain about how similar the parties are, lament the fact that America is deeply divided.
Anyway...we have a political candidate who is actively courting the conspiracy theory rage against the Bush machine crowd. These are the angered "cafe revolutionaries" who have a litany of grudges against the status quo. We have national party leaders actively cheering Michael Moore during a screening of his Bush-bashing conspiracy laden schlock film Fahrenheit 9/11. It used to be bad news for Republicans to have the likes of David Duke calling himself a Republican when he ran for the US Senate...yet Democrats welcome (or at least avoid confronting) these nutcases to their constituency.
Thankfully, recently the Bush administration dubbed them, "The Coalition of the Wild-Eyed"...very appropriate.
So, I guess I want to say to those members of the above who believe...
--The Republicans impeached Clinton for adultery and nothing more and they want payback
--The Bush Supreme Court stole the election in 2000
--The President KNEW
--It’s a war for oil buddies
--Bush pre-ordained an Iraq invasion prior to September 11th
--Iraq was fine while contained by the UN
--We need France to really make our military better...
Your party members may be paying you lip-service to get your cash and passion invested in their campaign, but your anger isn’t a means to a coherent policy. If Democrat party leaders were smart, they will soon start ignoring you – and maybe even actively disassociating themselves from your weirdness. But here’s the good news...we ARE seeing the separation of the parties for now...and because of it, you’ll always be out of power. The American choice between Democrats and Republicans has always been about smaller vs larger government. Democrats have been losing...a lot. So Democrats must rely on your fears, your anger, and irrational emotion-filled conspiracy theories...and the American people (as we recently saw) appreciate the positive and hopeful vision of a "shining city on a hill"...Ronald Reagan still lives.
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But Greg, don’t you also see a major schism with conservatives too. The xenophobic, protectionist, Old Testament thumping wing versus the non-conflict supporting, anarchist leaning, deists that make up the other wing because they’re opposed to Democrats?
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