Democrats lose working class

One of the serious problems faced by Americans is the choice between two political parties, each with its list of “beliefs.”

For the GOP, anti-abortion, pro-gun, anti-gay, pro-Israel, etc.

For the Dems, the opposite, etc.

If you oppose any of the tenets of either party, you are not a believer. I see this in the vast majority of comments that are totally one sided, both in GOP and Democratic blogs.

The middle ground promoted by the politicians after they are elected is some corporate-controlled swamp of ideas related to cutting taxes, ruining unions, praising Bill Clinton and kissing Pete Peterson.

For the Democratic Party to succeed, it needs to not lose the blue collar vote again and again, imply because it presents itself as an exclusive club of Third Way social issue maniacs, instead of a party that accepts gun lovers, who are against most abortions, but who also belong to unions, who also support equal rights, and want to retire in dignity and think universal healthcare is a good idea.

The tent is growing smaller for both parties, because too many conditions lead to too few members. Polticial parties should not be “religions,” which excommunicate anyone who do not follow the “edicts” of its leaders.

Duck and cover, the rich are coming!

The answer is in our history books, which we neglect to read.

When the rich rape the poor too much, the poor revolt, or threaten to revolt.

The rich are cowards by nature, and the threat of danger makes them tone down their lousy treatment of the masses.

Notice, I said revolt, not faxes. Revolt, not emails. Revolt, not voting for whomever is the second richest bastard and expecting things to change.

Civil rights came from revolt. Gay rights came from marches that included some scary looking people that probably frightened many a rich prude.

Union rights came from revolt, and months of pickets, and dead workers killed by Pinkertons and other agencies, and even the police and national guard.

We managed to defeat the greatest armies of the 20th Century – Germany and Japan, and yet everyone has a reason to not even try to scare twerps like Paul ”The Hair” Ryan, Orange Boner or ”Old” McConnell, (69, and never has to worry about Social Security or Medicare.)

Is the solution to train a cadre of potential lunatics, like the Teabaggers did with coporate bucks, or just to finally, finally, finally realize that we have to stand up and scare the Hell out of these nasty, self-centered, isolated, elite, educated morons.

House Democrats will commit suicide because Obama needs dozens of them to vote to pass the Catfood/Cash for Bankers bill, while dozens and dozens of Republicans will vote against it.

The Republicans and Teabaggers can then campaign on voting AGAINST cuts to SS and Medicare, while their Democratic assponents voted to CUT these vital programs.

Democrats will be told to fall on their sword and the GOP will be protected from bad publicity.

Obama knows this is coming. He's probably planning to run in both the GOP and Dem primaries, win them both, and do a Bloomberg by changing the Constitution to allow Presidents for life.

Democratic Party priorities stink

The American working class has abandoned the Democratic Party because it appears to be run by elites, who have no concept of what ordinary people face in their lives.

For example, most Americans are truly religious. In fact, we are the most religious country in the world by church attendance and affilliation. The unceasing left liberal focus on some social issues - to the exclusion of war, poverty and the destruction of the American dream - is a turn off and affront for many of these people, who would otherwise go Democratic - thus the success of the GOP appeal of family values (code for no gay marriage, etc.)

Instead of presenting the reason for values, the Democratic party imposes a litmus test of social mores, like rules for entry into some Harvard fraternity. The Gop does the same, although their code is religious.

While Democrats should espouse fairness and decency, they should not also do a Clinton and push for trade agreements (Korea, Columbia) that will destroy jobs here and move even more money overseas, and then offer Americans some pretense of "shared values" that it will help these other countries.

American workers see a portrayal of the Democratic Party as maintaining a consistent stance against controlling immigration, which has become a way for the rich to cut wages in construction and other industries, wages which once supported a middle class lifestyle.

American workers want a Democratic Party that fights for unions, and doesn't appoint labor haters in almost every sphere of government.

And American workers are very tired of a Democratic Party that talks down its nose to the working class, as though pushing a pencil requires more skill than building a house, a car, a bridge or computer.

If the Democratic Party wants worker support it has to make its leaders stop trying to distract us, brainwash us and bullshit us. The leadership perception of its own intelligence is grotesque, and that arrogance is the biggest contributor to the party's ignorance and denial of common sense solutions.

A third party would be successful if it just simply stood up for the middle class - not the rich, the banks and the paid off intelectuals - those geniuses who have convinced politicians that inheriting millions is achievement, and getting back your taxes from Social Security is entitlement.