"The Democrats are the party of big government in the service of big government and government service unions. They are not interested in enforcing the immigration laws. There is no party with actual political power that is interested in lower taxes, less government, and national defense without global expeditions. Most of their policies are reactive to the Republicans, and many of them make no sense under any set of assumptions." --Jerry Pournelle
"the lack of a credible Democratic party is damaging the Republican party by allowing it to expand into the void, all pretense of small government forgotten" --a commenter on Robbbbb's Livejournal
The Democratic party is a mess. It has no unifying purpose, other than to oppose anything the Republicans do. It is overrun with single interest groups who are united only by their lust for power and their hatred of Bush and conservatives. They have no abiding concern about the security of the country, and espouse policies that would act against the security of the nation.
Worse still, as Robbbbbb's commenter says, they are creating a vacuum that unscrupulous elements of the Republican party are exploiting to move us towards a one-party state. The Democrats are so far to the left that they have ceded all authority to counter the worst instincts of those on the right.
This country was much better off when the two parties formed a spectrum of opinions that reached across all shades of opinion, but those days ended in Chicago in 1968.
Posted on April 21, 2005 09:46 PM