Wednesday, October 26, 2005
View from the Red Road
Why The Democrats Lost
The democrats have spent valuable time trying to shed their inherent “liberal factor” over the past 35 years, which was the very essence of their party. In this past 2004 election, the democrats chose to recognize, accept, and patronize a Bush-created “war” and “threat” to Americans, ignore their essence. There didn’t appear to be much of a difference between the two candidates, so many didn’t know who to vote for.
In the 60’s and 70’s, labor unions were strong, the middle class workers had great pay and benefits, gasoline and bread was cheap, and people counted on democrats to protest morally-challenged issues like “Vietnam-type wars” and human rights violations like Blacks drinking out of water fountains. Democrats seemed to be for the mainstream, the working man and the housewife in America during these times. Although at the same time, Indigenous Peoples were struggling to stop from being “terminated” and very little housing and basic services made its way to impoverished “reservations.”
But the “fear factor” ruled the day and decided the presidency in 2004. Even the democrats embraced a so-called “war” – which 30 years ago would have been condemned by democrats as an “occupation” and “greedy quest for oil.” However, democrats and republicans alike somehow got confused by the Bush rhetoric and thought Saddam Hussein attacked New York’s buildings on “9-11” (the white man’s “Wounded Knee”). They actually imagined Saddam could have somehow been a “danger” or “threat” to America, the tiny, weak country which just happens to have the world’s largest oil reserves!
Do Americans really think the u.s. government and military would be in Iraq helping the Arabs (a people that they love and care for so dearly) and granting the great gifts of “democracy” and “freedom” if the Iraqi main export was ‘bananas’? Did the Americans forget that their own government was helping Hussein and paying for him when he was supposedly killing Kurds and his own citizens? Or did they forget this fact on purpose, instead choosing oil over peace and love?
The “fear factor” controls people’s emotions and feelings, misguiding their sensibilities based upon false assumptions (the opposite psychic behavior might be that of someone purchasing vast quantities of “lottery tickets” thinking they might actually “win the big one” someday). Thousands die in car accidents each year in America, yet most are unafraid to drive each day. Yet a miniscule fraction of deaths resulted from 9-11. Still, the occurrence continues to guides the American thought process (or lack thereof) three years later, because no one was there to point out this truth - the traditional duty of the democrats.
The carefully planned, one-time action against a crazed u.s. foreign policy by a handful of Saudi Arabians (not Iraqis!) against u.s. corporate interests at the symbolic “World Trade Center” in one of America’s most significant cities resulted in confusion and fear for Americans who had been, at the time, completely ignorant of any wrong-doing their government had been up to since its inception. As a victory for small, militarily insignificant mideast countries being oppressed by their puppet “leadership” in honor of corporate America, the u.s. is no longer the good, “rosy”, christian “symbol of liberty” to the world everyone had thought.
In the controlling two party system there is an inherent “pendulum factor.” The pendulum swings periodically from left to right and then back again from right to left. The democrats had their most perfect chance to have the pendulum on their side this election, but the ‘powers that be’ in control of the party chose instead to wait for Hillary Clinton in 2008, knowing full well Kerry was too far right and mirrored Bush (Bush “light”) and could never actually beat him. Again, everyone was led to believe that a “war” was going on and a president has never been defeated for reelection during “war time.” The democratic party chose personal interests over the good of the nation.
Had the democrats took notice when Howard Dean began to re-charge the demos and spark the interest of young voters to the donkey party (millions registered, a fraction turned out to actually vote), they could have easily beaten Bush. But Kerry had wrongfully followed “republican suit” and voted to give “dictatorship” powers to Bush (the same mistake made by the other loser, Daschle). Then Kerry stated it was a wrong war – but, if elected, he would fight it for four more years and would send even more troops! This process of “shooting oneself in thine’s own foot” allowed those tens of millions waiting for a chance to not vote for Bush continue with their misconceptions and fear about Iraq, which ultimately, again, led to the Kerry and democrat downfall.
So many things went wrong for Bush that any traditional democrat would have easily won the presidency; the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, no “WMD’s”, incompetent intelligence, lying to the people, losing debates (except for the pitiful “Edwards” loss and his exposure as the “village idiot on drugs” on national TV which didn’t help Kerry, nor did Kerry’s wife), the bad economy and the trillions in deficit, the loss of jobs, the privatizing of social security, the “mission accomplished” fiasco precipitating the deaths of 1,100 soldiers, Bush’s national guard “absence”, no “plan” once Iraq was invaded – all these facts which would normally insure any party victory. Yet Kerry was “hog-tied” with authorizing Bush the “dictatorship” powers and stating that “Bush was doing great” in Iraq on national television, allowing the “fear factor” to envelop the country.
The democrats must look deep within themselves to bring back the days of old when they once may have spoke from the heart and looked out for the common man – or face continual defeat from those who may often put money and power ahead of what is good and right.
The democrats have spent valuable time trying to shed their inherent “liberal factor” over the past 35 years, which was the very essence of their party. In this past 2004 election, the democrats chose to recognize, accept, and patronize a Bush-created “war” and “threat” to Americans, ignore their essence. There didn’t appear to be much of a difference between the two candidates, so many didn’t know who to vote for.
In the 60’s and 70’s, labor unions were strong, the middle class workers had great pay and benefits, gasoline and bread was cheap, and people counted on democrats to protest morally-challenged issues like “Vietnam-type wars” and human rights violations like Blacks drinking out of water fountains. Democrats seemed to be for the mainstream, the working man and the housewife in America during these times. Although at the same time, Indigenous Peoples were struggling to stop from being “terminated” and very little housing and basic services made its way to impoverished “reservations.”
But the “fear factor” ruled the day and decided the presidency in 2004. Even the democrats embraced a so-called “war” – which 30 years ago would have been condemned by democrats as an “occupation” and “greedy quest for oil.” However, democrats and republicans alike somehow got confused by the Bush rhetoric and thought Saddam Hussein attacked New York’s buildings on “9-11” (the white man’s “Wounded Knee”). They actually imagined Saddam could have somehow been a “danger” or “threat” to America, the tiny, weak country which just happens to have the world’s largest oil reserves!
Do Americans really think the u.s. government and military would be in Iraq helping the Arabs (a people that they love and care for so dearly) and granting the great gifts of “democracy” and “freedom” if the Iraqi main export was ‘bananas’? Did the Americans forget that their own government was helping Hussein and paying for him when he was supposedly killing Kurds and his own citizens? Or did they forget this fact on purpose, instead choosing oil over peace and love?
The “fear factor” controls people’s emotions and feelings, misguiding their sensibilities based upon false assumptions (the opposite psychic behavior might be that of someone purchasing vast quantities of “lottery tickets” thinking they might actually “win the big one” someday). Thousands die in car accidents each year in America, yet most are unafraid to drive each day. Yet a miniscule fraction of deaths resulted from 9-11. Still, the occurrence continues to guides the American thought process (or lack thereof) three years later, because no one was there to point out this truth - the traditional duty of the democrats.
The carefully planned, one-time action against a crazed u.s. foreign policy by a handful of Saudi Arabians (not Iraqis!) against u.s. corporate interests at the symbolic “World Trade Center” in one of America’s most significant cities resulted in confusion and fear for Americans who had been, at the time, completely ignorant of any wrong-doing their government had been up to since its inception. As a victory for small, militarily insignificant mideast countries being oppressed by their puppet “leadership” in honor of corporate America, the u.s. is no longer the good, “rosy”, christian “symbol of liberty” to the world everyone had thought.
In the controlling two party system there is an inherent “pendulum factor.” The pendulum swings periodically from left to right and then back again from right to left. The democrats had their most perfect chance to have the pendulum on their side this election, but the ‘powers that be’ in control of the party chose instead to wait for Hillary Clinton in 2008, knowing full well Kerry was too far right and mirrored Bush (Bush “light”) and could never actually beat him. Again, everyone was led to believe that a “war” was going on and a president has never been defeated for reelection during “war time.” The democratic party chose personal interests over the good of the nation.
Had the democrats took notice when Howard Dean began to re-charge the demos and spark the interest of young voters to the donkey party (millions registered, a fraction turned out to actually vote), they could have easily beaten Bush. But Kerry had wrongfully followed “republican suit” and voted to give “dictatorship” powers to Bush (the same mistake made by the other loser, Daschle). Then Kerry stated it was a wrong war – but, if elected, he would fight it for four more years and would send even more troops! This process of “shooting oneself in thine’s own foot” allowed those tens of millions waiting for a chance to not vote for Bush continue with their misconceptions and fear about Iraq, which ultimately, again, led to the Kerry and democrat downfall.
So many things went wrong for Bush that any traditional democrat would have easily won the presidency; the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, no “WMD’s”, incompetent intelligence, lying to the people, losing debates (except for the pitiful “Edwards” loss and his exposure as the “village idiot on drugs” on national TV which didn’t help Kerry, nor did Kerry’s wife), the bad economy and the trillions in deficit, the loss of jobs, the privatizing of social security, the “mission accomplished” fiasco precipitating the deaths of 1,100 soldiers, Bush’s national guard “absence”, no “plan” once Iraq was invaded – all these facts which would normally insure any party victory. Yet Kerry was “hog-tied” with authorizing Bush the “dictatorship” powers and stating that “Bush was doing great” in Iraq on national television, allowing the “fear factor” to envelop the country.
The democrats must look deep within themselves to bring back the days of old when they once may have spoke from the heart and looked out for the common man – or face continual defeat from those who may often put money and power ahead of what is good and right.
# posted by Indigenous Red Man @ 7:01 AM 
