Witness what this Republican, and his fantasies about what the Democratic party used to be, and how we've supposedly all turned socialist. Yet he has the never to wonder why we're so angry at them...
"...the Democrats have been in a state of change for a while now, most noteably in the last 40 years or so. Back then, Democrats supported tax cuts, a strong military, and no-nonsense confrontation with evil. Can you even image today's Democrats supporting any of those things?
My guess is, Bob Just is an old-style Democrat, in the mold of John Kennedy, Zell Miller, and Joe Lieberman before Owlgore corrupted him. Such people are still too liberal for the country's good. But they look downright conservative compared to the outright socialists and con artists occupying the party's major positions today. When one-third of the Democrats in the House are active members of the Democratic Socialists of America, any claims that they have no influence, go beyond unlikely to absurd.
Many such people lament the headlong careening to the left done by the Democrats in the last generation or so. They fail to realize that it was their own "we need just a little bit of liberalism" tendencies that opened the door for that headlong flight. I can't feel any real sympathy for Just's bemoaning the depths to which todays' "Democrats" have fallen. Hey, Bob, it happened on YOUR watch! And there were plenty of people around, who warned you of why it should be prevented.
The Democrat party today has allowed itself to become the tool of every group with a grievance, real or imagined, against anyone who believes in personal responsibility and freedom. And some of those recent "victims" include some real doozies - everyone from Huey Long to Al Sharpton to Hillary Clinton to Jesse Jackson have been climbing on the social-coercion bandwagon. They may have different reasons and tactics, but they all have a common goal: to use government force to impose massive restrictions on anyone who still follows the classic "American dream", and to take wealth from those they think shouldn't have it, and give it to those they favor.
Thankfully these people have been voted out of most majorities, and are barely holding on to what power they still have through outright demagoguery, spin, and invention of imaginary "enemies" they foist on people. There is still a danger they might drag the country down with them, but that danger is receding with every election... and every newspaper and TV story revealing their tactics and agenda.
My condolences to Bob Just and the other old-style "Democrats". they should have followed the lead of other former Democrats who recognized that the party was on an irreversible course toward socialist corruption, and gotten out (as did people like Ronald Reagan). When you heroically stay aboard a sinking ship, you don't accomplish anything noteworthy. You just wind up getting very wet."From a thread that he started about this very subject...
http://www.americanforum.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1995&highlight=Look cloosely how he parroting the wing-nut line and calling us "The Democrat" Party. I just wanted to show, that since some admonish "both sides" for the lack of civility in politicas these days, that WE are not the ones slinging the mud first. This person truly believes this bullshit, and yet doesn't make the connection as to WHY we are so angry with the recent course of our nation. The tone of this fantastical screed and demonization fo anybody associated with The Democrat
IC Party is proof positive of EXACTLY where our anger is focused. His words, his hate, his lack of original thought.