02-04-2017, 06:49 AM
With the election of Donald Trump, the Republican Party is now functioning in Crisis mode. The "small government which does nothing" Republicans have been pushed aside to make way for the crisis turning Republicans, those who want to use the power of government to do big things, to shape society and the world and solve what they see as America's problems.
The Democratic Party, on the other hand, is still entirely committed to its former Unraveling era politics. The 60s counterculture hippies' goal of smashing the establishment became the unraveling policies designed to eradicate all traces of the former 50s society. Whites must be disempowered to make way for minority races, men to make way for women, christianity to make way for other religions and beliefs. All of this is entirely unworkable in a Crisis, and can never be carried forward into the next High.
Democrats are now on track to be completely ignored for the the rest of the crisis and possibly much longer, as Republican control of the country becomes as much a fixture of society as Democractic control was during and beyond the last crisis.
The election of 1932 left the Democrats in control of the presidency and both houses of congress, and they kept it all until the crisis was over. More than that, other than two brief 2 year periods, democrats controlled both houses of congress until 1980, long long after the crisis was over. The democratic party of the 1930s pushed the New Deal policies which were intended to bring the country out of the great depression, while the republican party's goal was to stop the democrats from doing that.
Today, Donald Trump plans to "make America great again". He's going to secure our borders, build a 2000 mile wall, stand for law and order by possibly kicking out millions of illegal immigrants, reorder the world by forging new alliances and breaking old ones, renegotiate all our trade agreements, bring manufacturing back to this country, and no doubt much more. The democratic party's goal is to stop him from doing all of that, and the democrats' constant cries of "nazi" and "racist" are falling on deaf ears, much as the cries of "socialist" and "communist" were ignored by Americans suffering through the Great Depression.
Furthermore, Democrats are opposing all of this in entirely the wrong way, in ways which worked during the unraveling but which are doomed to failure today. Now is the time to bring people together, to focus on our commonalities, on what unifies us, but Democrats are still stuck in the politics of raising up minorities. The great protest marches which were organized to oppose Donald Trump becoming president? They were designed as a women's march, instead of as a people's march. Exactly the opposite of what should have been done.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/platforms.php Here is a link to the Republican and Democratic party platforms since 1840. The Democratic Party Platform of 2016 contains the term "LGBT" 19 times, "racial" 14 times, "people of color" 6 times, "black" 5 times, "African American" 6 times, "latino" 5 times, "minority" 7 times, "transgender" 5 times, "gender" 12 times. The term "white" appears 4 times, each occasion a complaint about some unfair advantage.
It should be no surprise that most of these terms don't appear at all in the Republican party platform. This is an Unraveling era document, a long list of oppressed minorities who must be raised up and taken care of. Look for any of this in the Democratic party platforms of the 1930s, you won't find it. (By 1940, both party platforms contain a brief and equal length paragraph opposing "Negro" discrimination)
What should the Democratic party be focusing on? An American liberal party in a crisis or a high should be paying attention to things that affect the average worker in this country. Replacing the mess of a way we manage and pay for health care in this country with some sort of tax supported single payer system, so that businesses and individuals are free from having to pay for or worry about medical expenses. The $15 per hour minimum wage is an excellent idea, although it needs to be sold as something which will raise the wages of a wide range of working Americans. If someone making $8 per hour is raised to $15, then someone making $15 today ought to be making $25 per hour. The general idea is that the U.S. is a wealthy, prosperous country, and this wealth need not all be concentrated to the top, leaving a few billionaires and millions of working people unable to afford a car or a doctor.
During an unraveling, when government is impotent and everyone, including billionaires and corporations, is supposed to be free to do what they want, the above seems impossible. The time has come where government can do things, where the vast imbalance in the allocation of wealth in this country can be changed. But Democrats will change nothing by wearing pink vagina hats and screaming "racist" at everyone politically right of center.
The Democratic Party, on the other hand, is still entirely committed to its former Unraveling era politics. The 60s counterculture hippies' goal of smashing the establishment became the unraveling policies designed to eradicate all traces of the former 50s society. Whites must be disempowered to make way for minority races, men to make way for women, christianity to make way for other religions and beliefs. All of this is entirely unworkable in a Crisis, and can never be carried forward into the next High.
Democrats are now on track to be completely ignored for the the rest of the crisis and possibly much longer, as Republican control of the country becomes as much a fixture of society as Democractic control was during and beyond the last crisis.
The election of 1932 left the Democrats in control of the presidency and both houses of congress, and they kept it all until the crisis was over. More than that, other than two brief 2 year periods, democrats controlled both houses of congress until 1980, long long after the crisis was over. The democratic party of the 1930s pushed the New Deal policies which were intended to bring the country out of the great depression, while the republican party's goal was to stop the democrats from doing that.
Today, Donald Trump plans to "make America great again". He's going to secure our borders, build a 2000 mile wall, stand for law and order by possibly kicking out millions of illegal immigrants, reorder the world by forging new alliances and breaking old ones, renegotiate all our trade agreements, bring manufacturing back to this country, and no doubt much more. The democratic party's goal is to stop him from doing all of that, and the democrats' constant cries of "nazi" and "racist" are falling on deaf ears, much as the cries of "socialist" and "communist" were ignored by Americans suffering through the Great Depression.
Furthermore, Democrats are opposing all of this in entirely the wrong way, in ways which worked during the unraveling but which are doomed to failure today. Now is the time to bring people together, to focus on our commonalities, on what unifies us, but Democrats are still stuck in the politics of raising up minorities. The great protest marches which were organized to oppose Donald Trump becoming president? They were designed as a women's march, instead of as a people's march. Exactly the opposite of what should have been done.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/platforms.php Here is a link to the Republican and Democratic party platforms since 1840. The Democratic Party Platform of 2016 contains the term "LGBT" 19 times, "racial" 14 times, "people of color" 6 times, "black" 5 times, "African American" 6 times, "latino" 5 times, "minority" 7 times, "transgender" 5 times, "gender" 12 times. The term "white" appears 4 times, each occasion a complaint about some unfair advantage.
It should be no surprise that most of these terms don't appear at all in the Republican party platform. This is an Unraveling era document, a long list of oppressed minorities who must be raised up and taken care of. Look for any of this in the Democratic party platforms of the 1930s, you won't find it. (By 1940, both party platforms contain a brief and equal length paragraph opposing "Negro" discrimination)
What should the Democratic party be focusing on? An American liberal party in a crisis or a high should be paying attention to things that affect the average worker in this country. Replacing the mess of a way we manage and pay for health care in this country with some sort of tax supported single payer system, so that businesses and individuals are free from having to pay for or worry about medical expenses. The $15 per hour minimum wage is an excellent idea, although it needs to be sold as something which will raise the wages of a wide range of working Americans. If someone making $8 per hour is raised to $15, then someone making $15 today ought to be making $25 per hour. The general idea is that the U.S. is a wealthy, prosperous country, and this wealth need not all be concentrated to the top, leaving a few billionaires and millions of working people unable to afford a car or a doctor.
During an unraveling, when government is impotent and everyone, including billionaires and corporations, is supposed to be free to do what they want, the above seems impossible. The time has come where government can do things, where the vast imbalance in the allocation of wealth in this country can be changed. But Democrats will change nothing by wearing pink vagina hats and screaming "racist" at everyone politically right of center.