It’s fine for Democrats to be upset that Donald Trump schlonged Hillary Clinton, but the reality is that they spent the entirety of the Obama years getting their brains beaten in.
When Obama first took office, they held the House and 60 seats in the Senate and controlled the majority of governorships and state legislatures.
Now, the GOP has a large majority in the House, 52 seats in the Senate, and the majority of state legislatures and governorships.
Democrats went from
thinking they were on the verge of a permanent political ascendancy to the
worst political bloodbath in American history.
Put another way, Democrats are
the George Armstrong Custer of political parties, and yet that doesn’t seem to
have inspired any soul searching at all.
So here are some questions Democrats
should be asking themselves right now:
1) Hillary Clinton?
Seriously?
Hillary had a potential
FBI indictment hanging over her head even as Democrats nominated her.
She’s
unlikable, not particularly accomplished for a presidential candidate,
campaigned on a radically liberal agenda, has corruption issues, and her
campaign pitch could be boiled down to “Vote For Me Because I’m A Woman.”
On
top of that, she was already so widely despised that she turned out
Republicans.
You could make a decent argument that she’s the single worst
presidential candidate of all time, yet she won anyway.
Of course, you could
make the argument that a radical socialist like Bernie Sanders would have been
worse, but even if so, why do the Democrats have so few quality candidates?
Where are the blue chip candidates?
2) Do Democrats Really
Want To Be The “One Size Of Liberalism Fits All” Party?
We’re in an age where people have almost infinite choice
when it comes to TV, music, clothing, groceries, websites and just about
everything else.
Yet, the standard Democratic position is that the federal
government needs to be in charge of everything so San Francisco values can be
forced on everyone.
Don’t like gay marriage in your state? Too bad.
Don’t want
Obamacare? Too bad. You are going to get it – and LIKE IT.
Democrats are so
proud that they believe in “choice” when it comes to abortion - even though the
father and the baby have no choice.
So why not allow other people to live like
they choose?
3) Do Democrats Really
Want To Be The Intolerant Fun Police?
Over the last few years, Democrats have turned into sour, anger puritans
shaking their fingers at everyone who steps outside their extremely narrowly
approved set of liberal values.
We’ve actually gotten to the point where
Democrats can’t even tolerate OTHER PEOPLE listening to non-liberal viewpoints
on campus.
Whatever happened to being open-minded?
Whatever happened to
tolerating other viewpoints?
Don’t Democrats need to learn how to do that
again?
4) Do Democrats
Represent Anyone Other Than The Most Liberal Americans?
If you’re a man, Democrats accuse you of perpetuating
rape culture.
If you’re white, they accuse you of being privileged.
If you’re a
Christian, they accuse you of being as bad as radical Islamists.
If you’re a
non-liberal woman, you’re constantly told that women who hold you in contempt
and don’t represent your views speak for you.
If you’re moderate, for all
intents and purposes, they tell you to shut your mouth and do as you’re told.
Democrats would rather offend a million Americans in flyover country than hack
off a liberal college professor.
At some point, if you want to represent
people, you have to at least make an attempt to address issues they care about
in a way that they appreciate.
Democrats have abandoned this idea and have
started explaining to Americans that they’re too stupid to know what’s good for
them.
That’s not how you make friends and influence people.
5) Has The Democratic
Party Gotten Too Extreme?
Democrats
from the Clinton years would think today’s Democrats are nuts and Democrats
from, say, 40 years ago would vote Republican before they’d vote for the
radicalism that has been embraced by today’s Democrat Party.
Gay marriage, men
in the women’s restrooms, detaching gender from genitalia, trigger warnings,
safe spaces, cultural appropriation, white privilege, open borders – these are
radical shifts for the Democrat Party that have happened in a relatively short
period of time.
At what point do you start to wonder if your party has moved
too far, too fast?
6) Can The Democratic
Party Continue To Advocate For More Spending?
Democrats seem to start every discussion with the
assumption that there’s an infinite amount of money for them to divvy out to
liberal interest groups and for votes.
Meanwhile, we’re almost 20 trillion
dollars in debt and adding more to that amount every year - and we are now
reliant on nations like China and Saudi Arabia to keep loaning us money so we
can pay Social Security and Medicare.
This is an unsustainable situation and,
whether by choice or necessity, the amount of money the federal government
spends must drop substantially in the next decade or two.
Can the Democrat
Party continue to function without being able to give away taxpayer dollars?
One way or another, we’re going to find out.
