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October 18, 2015 at 7:40 pm
My question is when is the Democratic Party going to challenge its foe to a duel? Or at the very least, fist-fights.
It’s what the foe wants.
October 18, 2015 at 10:04 pm
The Democratic Party needs to grow itself some globular objects.
Until it does, it will continue to play catch-up. It would be difficult to imagine many of today’s Democrats saying things that Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt said routinely.
There are some courageous Democrats, but, as a party, it will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
October 19, 2015 at 11:34 am
Did you read the NY Times feature on five of the Tea Party Freedom Congressmen today? Two of the districts are in your neighborhood, relatively speaking. The 1st District in Maryland, which constitutes the Eastern Shore and was actually redrawn by Democrats as a gulag for the GOP. I remember the Eastern Shore fondly but I can see how the demographic is pure WhiteManistan.
The other district was the one David Brat won over Eric Cantor.
If you read the piece and the quotes from constituents, who are all white — and if the pictures are representative — older and not in impressive numbers at meetings, they have no sensible beliefs. They’re for destroying government and railing about the nonsensical, viz. the endless wailing about curbing the national debt. Notable: Posters for “stop the Iran deal.” The 1st in Maryland was particularly ludicrous — the rep voting to increase military spending but to keep medical marijuana away from residents of Washington, DC, a pure gesture of racial resentment. None of them bad people are getting my money to buy their dope!
Summed up, its missives from WhiteManistan, where they believe in nothing except supporting a fury against everything else.
October 20, 2015 at 2:06 pm
Yeah, pretty much on target as you describe it.
One of the districts in my part of the state is ludicrously gerrymandered into three non-adjacent areas on two sides of the James (I generally do not read the NYT. It’s far too bourgeois for my taste, plus it has no comics. What the hell kind of pretentious lump of a newspaper thinks it’s too good to have comics?).
I was some gathering discussing a local issue and mentioned a “racial undercurrent.” Some demurred, and I said, “This is Virginia. Everything has a racial undercurrent.”