Those few times I discuss politics outside this blog with anyone at large, it is usually some Democrat friend who just can’t stand not having somebody to complain about Trump to, so I am it. I try to fend off such conversations because it is never a productive use of time. But getting a Trump-hater to drop the subject is like removing ticks. You can’t brush them off so easy.
I finally hit upon a way out. I simply ask what alternative they have.
The problem is, the Democrats have been kidnapped. No single Democrat I know is in agreement AT ALL with the policies which the vanguard of the party are pushing. They don’t want boys in girls’ sports. They think cross-dressers are lost souls crying for help. And if you really drill down with them, they’re really not that comfortable with gay marriage, certainly not the whole two daddies thing, though they – like nearly all Americans today – think homosexual adults should have their privacy respected and not be persecuted by extremist zealots.
They believe in God. They believe in voter I.D. They believe non-citizens should enter the country legally and those who did not, should be deported. They really don’t like abortion, certainly not partial birth abortion, though they think it’s a necessary evil. They think the killing in Ukraine is madness. They know Joe Biden was an animatronic president and that Kamala Harris a blithering idiot. And Hillary Clinton, for that matter. And Gavin Newsome – a complete phony.
But they hate Donald Trump for evil things he has not done, has not been convicted of, and for all the evidence, never in a million years would do.
These well-meaning but hate-blinded Democrats are like the fellow in Edward Everett Hale’s short story, “The Man Without a Country” – doomed to sail the world rootless and ashamed because the party they belong to has cast them off in all but name.
Listen, you Democrats: You need to take your party back!
The Democrats have a proud history including FDR, JFK, and… Ok, that’s about as far as it goes. They don’t want to discuss McGovern. Or Carter. Or Bubba Clinton. Or increasingly as the film is removed from their eyes, Barack Obama. The one with the big estate in the Hamptons or wherever and who was surfboarding with the cook who mysteriously drowned in shallow water…
But even if Democrats’ leaders have tended to have feet of heavier clay than most, their hearts have always been in the right place – with the little guy. With the average Joe. With the families who sent their sons off to fight for freedom. With the Catholics if not the Presbyterians. And so on.
In these times the Republicans – belonging to a party which is no paragon of virtue itself, but at least not the repository of every nutcase in the country – have to include in their tent such conscientious but impractical people known as RINOs, who really ought to be Democrats. Because even the RINOS cannot get on board with the crazy policies the elected Democrats are pushing. It is making the Republicans less effective in achieving such things as stopping war, reducing government waste and abuse, and improving the economy.
So, Democrats: Get your act together, stop obsessing over Trump, and take your party back. It is the most patriotic and productive thing you could possibly do with your public lives. Then, we don’t care what you do with your private lives. And you can hate on Trump all you want. We’ll just shrug our shoulders. Because we – Democrats and Republicans and Independents alike – will all have our country back.
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