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2010-08-01 Home Front: Politix

Democrats are now the party of perceived privilege, and GOP is the party of the people

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Posted by Fred 2010-08-01 14:11|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The GOP is only the party of the people faute de mieux. From Codevilla's famous essay: The GOP does not represent the country class. For it to do so, it would have to become principles-based, as it has not been since the mid-1860s. The few who tried to make it so the party treated as rebels.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-08-01 14:42|| 2010-08-01 14:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Joan almost...almost...got off the plantation. Her editor must've reminded her to add the last couple paragraphs

Posted by Frank G 2010-08-01 14:52|| 2010-08-01 14:52|| Front Page Top

#3 nah, it is just another one of those lame articles that reads like this:

Though it seems Democrats are now the party of perceived privilege, and GOP is the party of the people, if you look more closely you will see that to be untrue.

They aren't really writing this for you or me, they are writing it for the people who like to think of themselves as "liberal elite". They are starting to get a clue that they are just upper middle class, and not elite enough to make the cut to the upper-crust. It is becoming harder and harder for them to pretend they are intellectually superior to the great unwashed simply by supporting the Democrats and hating Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, Fox News and the GOP. This article helps make them feel good about themselves by allowing them to continue to delude themselves that they are still superior to the great unwashed because only they can see what you can not. It just appears the dems are the party of privilege but smart people realize that is just an illusion. You simpleton, you!

Posted by Martini 2010-08-01 17:32|| 2010-08-01 17:32|| Front Page Top

#4 The Dems are a party of three different groups of people.

1) The poor who pay no taxes and but recieve government largess.

2) Wealthy businesses who benefit from government largess, government regulations and government stifled competition. (e.g. Banksters, Warren Buffett, GE and Unions come to mind.)

3) The liberal elite who know what is best for the serfs and benefit from government grants to academia. Includes most government workers in this group.

Any time a lib tells me the Republicans are the party of the wealthy, I make a small wager that if they look up the results for the last election (almost any election in the last 20 years will do), they will find that the dems won a majority of the wealthiest zip codes, or congressional districts, or cities, or states. Those that accept the wager (after paying me off) then tell me they also found that the dems also win the poorest regions as well. I have to explain to them about point 1) above that the dems are the party that takes from the middle class and gives to the poor and wealthy to maintain their hold on power.

On the other hand, the Republicans held congress from 1994 to 2006 and the Presidencey for 20 of the last 30 years and I am sad to say they were not worth a sack of wet hair (with the exception of RR).

I think Obama is every bit the closet Marxist as the next Burger. But at least he help bring about the Tea Party and expose the Dems and Repub for what they really are. Hopefully the election of BO will be a pyrrhic victory for the dems.

Posted by Eboreg 2010-08-01 23:21|| 2010-08-01 23:21|| Front Page Top

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