The Doom of the Democrats

The core of the Democratic Party from the time unmemorable of FDR, is labor. The Unions. The wise elders behind the New Deal put the Democrats where they are today. And like every younger generation, the current Democratic leadership has forgotten everything their forbearers tried to teach them.
As one union man once said (a couple days ago actually), “It’s not that we’ve left the Democrats, the Democrats have left us.” What was once viewed as the Party for the little man against the bosses is now viewed as the slave of Silicon Valley interests, realtors who have planed out the forceful gentrification of New Orleans, corporations and the globalization for the sake of globalization forces like the World Trade Organization, that have led to millions of folks losing their livelihoods.
No longer do you hear pundits squawk about the outsourcing of jobs, the stratification of the rich against poor, the annihilation of welfare or even the war. Now all they squawk about is, well, nothing really. Obsessed with infantile ‘cultural’ issues, the so called ‘left-wing’ party’s primary strategy has become playing topical catch-up after the un-silent majorities’ crusades, instead of crafting issues for their own. They have become reactionaries to the reactionaries.
As the Democrats bend over backwards to appease right-wing fence sitters and independents, becoming ever more centrist in mind that now they’ve officially qualified for lukewarm status, the true left is fleeing in droves.
The scenario has been played out over and over in so many different places and times that it is practically a rule of nature. I’ll use Germany in the 20s and 30s as a rather rough template of what’s already happened and what’s going to happen:
The far left was big and growing bigger. The mainstream Social-Democratic party was winning votes but only under the platform that any change had to be gradual and within the bounds of the status quo for sake of realism (remember the ’06 elections). The far left grew impatient then distressed then disenfranchised then angry. They went off on their own to try and run things their own way. The Social-Democrats became terrified and the far right became entrenched The Social-Democrats sided with the far right to put down the far left in the name of order. After that bloodshed was done, the far right then killed off all the Social-Democrats and declared it the beginning of a thousand year regime, or ‘Reich’.
Are the Democrats going to win the presidential elections? Sure. But only because they’re not Republicans. The Republicans may be viewed as corrupt and elitist, but the Democrats are viewed as incompetent and elitist. The number of people fleeing the GOP is much larger then those coming to the Dems. When the Democrat President comes to power it will not take long before people realize it’s just more business as usual, more corruption, more imperialism, less jobs, and they’re going to be very very pissed off.