#122: The Seppuku of the Democrat Party

November 6, 2014

Well, the U.S. Democrat party has suffered a historic defeat. The Leftist mainstream media outlets are for the most part issuing this mantra: this wasn’t an endorsement of the Republican party, it was a rejection of “incumbents.” On Fox News, this is the pitch being marketed by the resident Obama Apologist, Juan Williams. Poor Juan, his job is getting ever more difficult. Spin, spin, spin. Hey, Juan, it wasn’t “incumbents” they were hating, it was Democrats lurching to the Left.

Let’s look at what happened.

When Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama was elected in 2008, the Democrat party had already been taken over by a coalition of far-Left apparatchiks, some ideologues, and some just self-serving populist opportunists. What else can we conclude from the trio of Pelosi, Reid, and Obama? The Democrat party of the 1950s had ceased to exist. These new Democrats drew a conclusion from BHO’s election, a conclusion he himself enthusiastically accepted, namely that the country was ripe for a centralised Leftist government takeover. They believed that the following three things were now within their reach:

1) Growing the government in size, reach, and power;

2) Growing the dependency class to make them the dominant force in elections (increasing the welfare and foodstamp population — the Democrats LOVE high unemployment, it places more people on the government dole; bringing in as many illegal dependent immigrants as possible); and closest to BHO’s heart:

3) Permanently destroying the Republican opposition by any means possible.

As it happened, this was a triumph of hope over reason as their huge losses in the 2010 midterms should have persuaded them. But they ignored the 2010 losses and they and their feckless boss doubled down on their fumbling, bumbling, lurching towards the far, far Left. Notice I don’t say they doubled down on their “policies”; this bunch of political gangsters never had actual policies — all they had were last-minute reactions selected for their “optics” which they hoped would retain their “base.”

They failed to understand the true message of 2008 and 2012. Those successful elections were the result of a converging number of factors which did not include a mass approval of their lurching to the Left. The factors included 1) rejection of the Bush years, 2) the symbolism of Obama being both black and white, a kind of personification of the public’s sentimental fantasy of blacks and whites “coming together”, 3) all the illegal votes cast across the U.S., 4) a coalition of parasites (welfare & food stamp takers, single mothers, trial lawyers, brainwashed “students” living off their parents, unions, especially government unions), 5) a very weak Republican opposition, and 6) a very effective “ground game.”

None of this entailed an approval of the Democrat lurching to the Left.

When Obama was elected in 2008, his controllers concluded that this was the Left’s BIG chance, one that was not likely to come again. BHO actually stated what their intention was, but few believed him: it was to “transform” America. This was more than “code”, it was a direct statement of intent: We’re going to turn you into, at the very least, a Social Democrat state on the European model.

Well, they’ve worked on that for the past 6 years. The elections of 2010 told them unequivocally: Stop doing that! We don’t like it.

They didn’t listen. Obama managed to get elected again in 2012 for all the reasons I mention above, but the people hadn’t changed their minds from 2010. Yet the Democrats concluded from McCain’s loss that the Republican “brand” had been permanently and irrevocably damaged.

In 2014, the people repeated what they said in 2010: Stop! We’re not buying what you’re selling! We don’t want it!

Once again, we see BHO and his controllers doubling down.

Remarkably, they’re sticking to the stories and strategies that led to two historic massive party defeats. They are, in effect, in the process of committing political Seppuku, ritual suicide. There is, of course, this difference: Seppuku involves both courage and honor — neither of which are discernible anywhere in the Democrat party. They are doing to themselves what they intended to do to the Democrats.

One can only hope that they succeed soon, before even more damage is done.