...we are fighting on several fronts, including one that involves useless sloths and actual antagonists on our own side: "The Stupid Party Redux".
Purge it or burn it down. Traditional patriots need to get rid of these milling cattle looking for the trough of corporate globalist handouts; these milk-drinking Babbits who haven't the stomach for a fight; these weak-kneed time servers; these Lite Democrats who'd rather throw a life preserver to their "colleagues" across the aisle than even a crumb of genuine hope to their own constituents; these complacent losers; this political fraternity of the dishonest and the moronic and the habitually ineffectual.
If we do ultimately find ourselves in the middle of a hot civil war, the blame will fall largely on the heads of the GOP establishment which, even when it has "won", has still managed to lose almost all the important battles, and has done so for the last 30 years.
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This is excerpted from a response to a comment I left at Don Surber's blog.
"In many parts of the south, almost all local candidates are still democrat. Goes way back. So in the primary, you opt to vote in the democrat booths. Sheriff, supervisor, tax collector, circuit clerk, chancery clerk, etc. all run as democrats. I know many of them and they are all conservatives and would never vote for a democrat for state or federal office. I never have and never will."
I knew that the party boundaries were more fluid in the US than they are between our Labor and Liberals, but this still seems weird. If there are conservative candidates, there are presumably a fair number of conservative voters too. Why not just run as a Republican?
That scenario used to be the case, and may still be, here and there; however, it's not nearly as prevalent as it used to be. Most politicians who are overtly conservative just go ahead and run as Republicans.
The Democrat Party of today tends to be leftist or leftish everywhere; donk candidates in the south generally don't play up the wilder planks in the Democrat platform, and will often run on very vague principles or, perhaps more frequently, on their personal bona fides - "veteran", for example, or "former prosecutor" (i.e., "tough on crime").
Of course, all bets are off in urban areas and college towns; Dems can let their freak flags fly in those locales (but those Democrats certainly aren't voting Republican for national candidates).
Now that they know they can blatantly vote-fraud to steal an election, with no repercussions, thay can let their freak flag fly.
Gregory, my mother, a conservative Catholic, used to vote DLP - the only truly conservative party Australia had between the war and Pauline Hanson. We regarded Liberals as the party of big business and anti-national globalism - mostly obeying whatever they were told by London or supporting the elites.
In the same way, US Dems used to be the party of ordinary folks more or less (look up Huey Long, pretty much the Trump of his day) while Republicans are the party of big business interests and old money New England aristocrats - just like the Liberals were and often still are here (Tony Abbott was the exception and look how quick the Liberals dropped him).
It depends what you mean by 'conservative. Arthur Calwell, leader of the ALP before Gough, was about as conservative as any leader has ever been - Australia First, restricting immigration so local workers would not have have conditions undermined - the same things in Trump's platform.
The problem is rusted-on party loyalty - lack of 'fluidity' as you say - and I think both ALP and US Dem supporters are more fixed like that, even though both see their parties taken over by urban hipsters. So I see them as similar.
- Americans friends: feel free to disagree on my depiction of Dems who I'm comparing to our ALP and I defer to your better local knowledge, but I think what I say works at a very broad general level. :-)
Thanks, Bruce. My father voted DLP too.
Today's Labor voters would freak if they realised how close Labor was to Trump, philosophically speaking, in the days before Gough came down from Heaven to show the way.
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