Why Democrats Win, Why Republicans Lose
Well for one thing, they want power so bad, they can taste it. You could sense it in their anguished howls of indignation when they were cast out of power in 1994 and lost the White House in 2000. They foamed with rage at the sheer wrongness of it all, they, after all, are entitled to power, it’s theirs, it belongs to them, how dare the mouth-breathing, unenlightened electorate deny them what is rightfully theirs.
Republicans, at least those from polite society, still don’t see the Democratic game plan for what it is, War by Other Means. They fail to realize that it is not the Constitution and US Social Studies 101 governing Leftist behavior, but Marx’s Communist Manifesto, Antonio Gramschi’s long march through the culture. and Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
In short, Conservatives are blindly, stupidly, unaware that war is being waged against them.
That being said, George Joyce, of the AMERICAN THINKER weighs in on Why Democrats Win, Why Republicans Lose
Barbara Boxer’s rude and imperial treatment of Black Chamber of Commerce head Harry Alford has been igniting a refreshing intellectual uprising in the conservative media. A glaring spotlight has now been fixed on Boxer’s ugly attempt to patronize a sharp, focused and well-prepared black man during a Senate committee hearing.
Boxer made a dangerous assumption about Mr. Alford’s intellectual competence but her mistake should help to expose the left’s disdainful and quite harmful attitude toward America’s black population. For many white liberals, black people are just, well, incapable. When black people realize this the modern Democrat Party is finished.
On the other hand, the modern Republican Party may well be finished for another reason tucked within the heated exchange between Boxer and Alter. Sitting to Boxer’s right at the committee hearing was Senator James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma. Inofe’s behavior during the dust-up is a veritable microcosm of everything that’s wrong with the Republican Party. Instead of sharing in Mr. Alter’s indignation and directly challenging Boxer on an attempt at political persuasion bordering on racism, Senator Inhofe was politely inert.
Why are the Democrats winning? Because they are not politely inert. Readers may recall an exchange between Boxer and Inhofe back in 2007 during which Boxer directly confronted and scolded Inhofe in front of a smiling Al Gore during Senate committee meeting on Global Warming.
Democrats are visceral about their beliefs and they confront, challenge, and “get in the faces” of their opponents. By doing this they control the debate on issues that will shape the future of America. Republicans benefit no one by being politely inert. When Republicans refuse to get outraged they send a dangerous signal to the public: maybe conservative beliefs just aren’t worth defending.
Senator Inhofe had a glorious chance to help defend a black man under assault by the imperial Senator Boxer. He failed, and for a crucial moment, so did the conservative movement.
It doesn’t end there, however.
Another pundit who speaks forcefully on how to succeed instead of failing in politics, is Michael I. Rothfeld. He describes in his column,
The Real Nature of Politics and Politicians
or America’s System Works, But Not the Way You Think!
In short, we Conservatives have been going about it all wrong.
While we have been playing a gentlemanly game of checkers, the Leftists have been playing a ruthless and cutthroat game of chess, with a generous helping of cheating.
The first mistake most folks make when they set out on a good-faith crusade to do good is to completely misunderstand their targets.
Sometimes, activists make the local newspaper or media the target. The thinking goes, “If we can just get them to understand the problem, things will change.” It is fortunate that this is not correct, because the media in the U.S. is overwhelmingly committed to big government, gun control, and the supremacy of state-controlled education over parent controlled education.
The fact is newspapers cast no votes. The national evening news controls no elections. If this were not true, Ronald Reagan would never have been President.
An even more common mistake is to believe that the key to victory is education.
The “education is the key to political victory” theory claims that if we educate people as to the problem and the solution, then the elected officials will fall in line.
Wrong.
Polls show huge majorities of Americans in favor of parental notification before a minor has an abortion. Yet the mere mention of the issue drives most politicians into fits of terror. Similarly, three-quarters of the American people oppose forced-unionism and favor Right to Work laws; however, such laws exist in only 22 states.
It is important to understand the two reasons why the education theory of politics is a mistake.
First, the theory assumes no opposing “education” effort. This is rarely the case.
Polls showed a majority in California favored education choice, yet the 1992 School Voucher Referendum lost 2-1 on election day. Why? Because the NEA-teachers’ union bosses and pro-government-school-monopoly forces out-organized school choice forces, had a more focused message, and spent a lot more money.
The second, and more important, reason the “education is the key” theory fails lies in the nature of politics and politicians.
There’s lots more there, and a very, very good read.
You might also see if you can get your hands on a copy of CONFRONTATIONAL POLITICS by Sen. H.L. Richardson, who believed wholeheartedly in Senator Everett Dirksen’s political adage of: When I feel the heat, I see the light.
If you can’t find it anywhere else, you might be able to order a copy from Gunowners of America which is a top-notch Second Amendment Rights lobbying organization.
Bottom line, Ladies and Gents, is we have to get mad, and become aggressive and not be afraid of being impolite from time to time.
Of course you realize…this means war
