letter to democrats
Mood:  crushed out
Who Stole My Democratic Party?
By Daniel G. Jennings
I'm a loyal Democrat who is disgusted with my party. The first presidential candidate I voted for was Michael Dukakis, since then I cast my ballots for Clinton and Gore. Yet now I look at the Democrats and I am disgusted.
My party, the party of Truman, FDR, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Woodrow Wilson has been taken over by the wimps, the whiners, the losers, the peaceniks, the snobs and the elitists. The so-called Presidential candidates are busy trying to kiss up to a small cadre of America-hating, latte-drinking, snobs while ignoring the rest of us. In Congress, our party has an important chance to compromise with the Republicans and President Bush and get important social legislation that would have benefited average people such as Medicare and Social Security reform and maybe even national health care passed. Instead we are letting pompous asses such as Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd block such legislation in order to score political points with the Volvo driving set.
One of our most important allies the American Association of Retired People has abandoned us and gone over to the Republicans on Medicare. A compromise that would have given millions of poor seniors the prescription drug benefits they so desperately need. Yet what do we do? We attack it come on. The AARP leaders will get the message they'll see that if they want anything constructive accomplished for their constituents they'll have to go to the GOP.
Then there's the war, I have news for you Democrats most Americans see nothing wrong with it. They have no problem with our President using our military forces to overthrow governments that are hostile to our interests such as Saddam's (many of us think it's about time the USA started kicking some ass in the third world). Average Americans see nothing wrong with American dominance in the world for we know that America is the land of freedom, justice and opportunity - not an evil empire as the college professors and journalists like to claim. (Yes Democrats those Marxist professors at your university lied to you and are still lying to you.) Average Americans know that our troops will treat the Iraqis decently and that our rule is preferable to Saddam's cheap thuggery. We also know that if we don't get control of the Middle East we'll suffer devastating new terrorist attacks that will make Sept. 11 look like tame in comparison.
We also know that there is no alternative to American dominance in the world, the United Nations and Europe are too weak to make a real difference in the world. China the would be super power is ruled by a small and vicious cadre of Communist gangsters who would invade and loot as much of the world as they could if they were given the chance. India is democratic but it lacks the economic and technological capabilities to match our military might. America has is a world leader and we have to act like one, not bow and scrape before the European elitists.
When we average Democrats see our so-called leaders listening to the intellectuals, the journalists, the movie stars and the rest of the media and academic elitists we have to wonder do you care about them or America? Do you care about our troops fighting in Iraq or the average Americans who would be slaughtered in the next terrorist attack?
We see you listening to the peace movement but we don't see you talking about some of the issues facing average Americans? What about overtime Congress recently eliminated that. You could have cut a deal with Bush and the GOP. Keep overtime and we'll back your war in Iraq. Did you? Now lots of average Americans will loose a large percentage of their income because you couldn't compromise. The Volvo driving snobs at the peace rallies won't loose any income but average working folk will thanks Democrats.
So Democrats if you want my vote again, start being the party of average Americans again. Stop being the party of Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd and Howard Dean. Start being the party of John F. Kennedy, Harry Truman and FDR again. Start being the party of workers and the middle class and stop being the party of the latte set. Then guess what you'll start seeing the kind of electoral victories that Truman and FDR won again.