03/16/05

Why are the Democrats -- the party of my youth -- so widely dismissed as pathetic poseurs these days? Let's see. George W. Bush makes a big speech about how America promotes democracy throughout the world. How do the Democrats respond? By pointing out that our Founding Fathers purposely set us up with a Republic, while strongly warning against direct 'democracy' as nothing but 'mob rule,' likely to vote the constitutional rights of minorities out of existence at the first opportunity? Of course not. ... Loyal opposition? The only thing the modern Democratic Party can find to 'oppose' are such irrelevant cosmetic features as the churchgoing habits and adopted Texas drawls of the ancient Connecticut banking family known for more than a century as the Prescott Bush clan, while shrieking about 'tax cuts for the rich,' when this other set of elite millionaires who hasn't done their own grocery shopping in decades secretly defines any private-sector slob who works hard enough to own a house as 'rich...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz20.html

from LewRockwell.Com, by Vin Suprynowicz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp