The Political Party that is No More

Oct. 29, 2008 - PRLog -- The Political Party that is No More.  

When a political party becomes by its very nature, suicidal condescending and sanctimonious it is only a matter of time before it ceases to exist.  That is the current state of the Republican Party and those attributes are so engrained into the “base” that it cannot ever recover or re-brand itself.  So it will go the way of the Federalist Party, John Adams being the last such president of that party, the Democratic-Republicans,   [although one could argue that this is the forerunner of today’s Democratic Party], and The Whig Party.

Surely, none of the supporters of these parties ever thought that at some point certain that they would simply cease to exist because they had become irrelevant.  And that is the case today.  Few would suspect that the Republican Party is about to evaporate, but that is exactly what is happening.  It is not George W. Bush that is the cause of it but rather party platform planks stuck into the party over the last 30 years that in effect say “...that we know better than you, you must believe in a higher being and if you don’t, you are some sort of sub-human not fit to be a member of society and that conservative values are the only values of worth.  That you must adopt the most fanatical view of when life begins and be wiling to force even girls that were raped no choice but to bring an unwanted child to term.  A Republican Party so laced with testosterone that even when it was elected to end a war in Vietnam, Nixon instead chose to expand it into Cambodia and Laos and take three years to bring it to an end dropping more bombs in two years than Johnson did in five and more than the U.S. dropped in all of WWII in Europe and the Pacific.  That injudicious war cost 500,000 lives, 58,000 of them American and a goodly percentage after Nixon took office.   That poison, that testosterone, exhibited itself with “W,” Rumsfeld and Cheney and is one of the final nails in the coffin of the Republican party which will cease to exist in two decades or ever sooner.  It seems to many that the Republicans are willing to put up anyone who spouts the correct conservative dribble vs. those that actually have half a brain.

This is not to say that the Democratic Party is that much better...but it is better to be sure.  Historically on the side of the disadvantaged...to the material disadvantage of the “advantaged” which is no plus, the Democratic Party will, at least, get some value for the money they waste.  There was a time when the Republican Party was a party of a conservative fiscal policy and held a belief that government should stay out of one’s personal affairs.  

In this regard, the parties have switched.  If you take a look at the Clinton administration, they brought fiscal rationality to the forefront, balanced the budget and paid down the national debt to such an extent that the FED started to eliminate the issuance of certain Treasury Notes. It was only a matter of time before the next administration could lower taxes and expand the economy even further.  Of course, dullard George W. Bush changed all that.  Today the budget and our economic domicile are so strained at present that it is ready to shatter.  So costly is our war on terror and Iraq that we have a military that is stretched so thin and so worn out that we are in a situation where our military cannot possibly protect us from new serious threats.  In effect, the war in Iraq has damaged our defense and made us weaker militarily and economically and this being the primary responsibility of government...defense...not running a postal service, not education, not commerce but defense and here the Republicans, for all their testosterone, have mightily failed.

In regard to energy policy, there is barely a brain working in either party.  After all, we  had gas lines around the block in 1973 with the Arab oil embargo...we are still importing oil from those same sources that use our money to buy weapons and support folks that are very willing to kill us.

One of the most aggravating aspects of Republican Party is their manner.  They come from an attitude of superiority where they know what is best for us, where government will tell a young girl to have an unwanted child and where they can never admit a mistake in foreign or domestic policy. Add too an attitude that demands those running for public office be god-fearing near religious fanatics refusing to admit that agnostics and even atheists can lead the most moral of lives. And it is not entirely the fault of the Republican Party.  “Joe the Plumber” has a responsibility too.  Why does he not know that his life under an Obama administration would result in more money in his pocket?  He doesn’t make close to $250,000/year and yet one would think that he has stock options in Google!

Palin, of course, has done the Republicans no good whatever other than making the “base” even more strident and demonstrating to the electorate that the Republicans have become untrustworthy in the extreme.  The rest of the world looks at the Republican candidate for VP and gasp at the ineptitude of such a choice by the Republican standard-bearer. It is events and thinking inside the box that will bring doom to the Republican Party.

As for the Democratic Party...well, to me it acts racist particular in the case of its African American members who vote 95-97% along color lines.  The Democrats found no such racist attitudes in let’s say white Iowa, where that principally white population voted without any concern to the color a person’s skin.  But overall, the spending by the Democrats will likely equal that of the Republicans over time...the difference is that the Democrats will actually buy something useful such as education and if we are lucky, energy self sufficiency.

When it comes to government, I have for a number of decades become a pessimist.  It is an attitude that has served me well and I see nothing on the horizon other than talk that suggest any potential for change.  So, I will remain a pessimist and someday...if I live long enough...I could be surprised.  But I do doubt it.

Axxel Knutson
Warren, NJ 07059
October 29, 2008

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