Monday, September 20, 2010

The Democratic Party: like an overpopulated hamster cage

You probably remember seeing it in a biology-class movie in high school, or maybe on one of the science-related channels on cable TV: a hamster cage that is overrun with the little rodents, all of them desperately searching for food, fighting off the aggressive attacks of their fellows, scrambling aimlessly in panic – even resorting to cannibalism.

Amidst all the chatter about the civil war going on between establishment Republicans and their Tea Party opponents, has anybody noticed the disarray in the Democratic Party? The rank-and-file running from their leaders, the “gentry liberals” struggling against the public unions, Nancy Pelosi kicking Maxine Waters’ staffers out of a public event, Democratic candidates from sea to shining sea suddenly backing away from their president’s signature issue, and, for that matter, from the president himself. It’s a case of too many Democrats and too little good news on the economy, too many liberals and too little respect for the constitution, too many statists and too few malleable, gullible taxpayers. And Mother Nature’s going to take care of business this November with a culling of the horde, through the natural selection of the ballot box.

Biology. Always a fascinating subject.

And so is psychology. What modern-day Freud or Jung can decipher for us the strongly-held belief in some quarters that a previous, and repudiated, dabbling in the occult is somehow more menacing in political life than a previous – and, as far as I know, unrepudiated - belief in Marxism (oh, and also Jeremiah-Wright-style black liberation theology)? Christine O’Donnell, at least, has ended her acquaintance with something that (arguably) truly exists; Christopher Coons once believed, and may still believe, in a statist paradise that has never been anything but a fairytale (but, as history has shown, not at all a harmless one). I’ll take the witch over the tovarich any day.

Besides, if O’Donnell really were a witch, Fox News would be conducting interviews with Karl Rove via live-feed from a lily-pad.

10 comments:

RebeccaH said...

Gotta agree with you about the witch and the tovarisch (sounds like the title of a fantasy book, doesn't it?). Anyway, O'Donnell dabbled in witchcraft when she was in high school, for God's sake. Most people outgrow their high school experiments.

Marxists, on the other hand, don't.

richard mcenroe said...

0R under a rock where he belongs

TW: cropola: Barry's little faux-pas when quoting the Declaration...

Anonymous said...

I know ONE woman in my generation - with 'generation' being, say, 10 years younger to 10 years older than me - ONE woman who did not 'dabble' in witchcraft during her teens. ONE. I am nearing 55 years old. ONE.

And that one is NOT me.

Won't be a deal-breaker for me - I'm the one that told my ten-year-old that smoking pot wasn't the deal-breaker with Clinton.

Can this crap get any more juvenile? Really?

RECENT anti-American words or actions, from someone AND THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY, supposedly adults? NOW we're talking deal-breaker.

SwampWoman said...

Sheesh. They're going back to high school?

Are these the same people that aren't at all concerned about how Obama came to be admitted to college, who paid for his education, and what his grades were?

SwampWoman said...

How do you dabble in witchcraft? Do you recite spells for recreational purposes, or run around nekkid under a full moon or something? C'mon, tell us!

Does making a voodoo doll count? (grin)

Yojimbo said...

I for one will be happy to see Elizabeth Montgomery in Congress. The deficit may be more than a two twitcher,but I think she will be up to it. Obamacare, piece of cake.

Well fair is fair. During the primaries the Obamabots were all over Hillary for channeling Eleanor Roosevelt during her years in the White House.

SwampWoman said...

In 30 years, no doubt politicians will be accusing each other of being werewolves and vampires in high school.

Steve Skubinna said...

Actually, the college biology factoid that sticks with me right now is that mice, when their population exceeds the resources to support it, stops breeding. Not that they stop, uh... mouse boinking, but the females become infertile.

Anyway, set me straight here - are the Democrats now in favor of witch hunts?

Paco said...

Steve: Looks like.

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