Election Explained
Reasons for voting Democrat:
More freebies, welfare, government jobs, grants; satisfaction of leftist ideological malice; if you are a minority, the pleasure of sticking it to Whitey.
Reasons for voting Republican:
Unless you are a big capitalist, a defense contractor, an employer of illegal immigrants, or a politician hoping for the perks of office, there are none.*
*Historical note: The Republican Party prospered pretty well for a century and a half by never doing anything for its voters except giving them a sense of respectability, of superiority to the immigrant herd and Southern barbarians. But now, except in the clueless boondocks, it is more respectable to be a Democrat. (Some people have voted Republican in the hope of slowing down the Democrat destruction of the country, but they have been and are certain to continue to be disappointed. To keep doing the same thing over and over although it never works is one of the definitions of insanity. However, in this case it is not so much insanity as desperation and inability to think outside the box.)
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Mr. Maxwell, I must apologise. I should be locked up for senility. I was thinking of the mediocre Reagan movie "Tennessee's Partner." Like you I have tried to get "Tennessee Johnson" but have been unable to. It must be good since it seems to have been well suppressed.
Dr. Wilson, I have been following this with great interest, and with (as I am sure you would understand) mixed reactions. I would make only two comments, both with respect to you and your friends. First, we must agree, must we not, that despite the bookend wars that Republicans foolishly started, all the wars of the 20th century were the product of Democrats who truly embraced the imperial concept? And second, as to what ordinary Democrats now believe, a colleague of mine and a wonderful woman has on her vehicle a bumper sticker that says, "Another Democrat for Life." I asked her one day, "Who is the other one?" Because she is gracious and honest, she admitted that she didn't know. When the evil Kennedys married the urban machine to the New Deal coalition (a crucial element of which was the southern aristocracy), now taken to a new level by the Chicago mob, the Stupid Party was left to conserve only that which the last generation tried to get done. I am, as I have been saying for fifty years, a conservative and not a Republican. That does not mean that all Republicans are dishonorable.
There are indeed "still plenty of people in the Democratic party who are not perverts,abortionists or multiculturalists.." and I suggest we call that remnant the "Good and Plenty" Democrats. The pink box contained a few dozen candy coated licorice pieces, that railroad engineer Choo-Choo Charlie could turn into a roaring locomotive.
I know many Democrats who are not perverts, and many Republicans who are. I don't know more than a small handful of Democrats who are not willing to be abortionists, and many, many Republicans who would fight for life. I don't know one Democrat who is not a "multiculturalist." Can anyone name one?
Best of the Season to you and yours, John. I don't think I said that all Republicans are evil. Just the leaders.
@RandallIvey,
This is the first post of yours I've had the pleasure to read here, and I hope it will not be the last.
About conservative Democrats – I'm reading Caro's "Path To Power", the bio of LBJ's early years, and I'm beginning to get strange new respect for those earlier Democrats, especially the hard scrabble farmers of the Texas Hill Country. One problem for me has always been that I've never met any conservative Dems, only the depraved ones. Exemplars like Professor Wilson are few and far between, and I hear he's holed up in a fortified position with the approaches covered by machine guns with interlocking fields of fire.
Your point about "lower class whites voting Republican [to be put] on the same level as the Rockefellers and the Duponts ...." has some merit, though I can say that in my own case and probably that of more than a few others, it was more to show my stoic side, a way of saying "I may be poor, but I'm honorably so, and my vote is not for sale to the welfare pushers."
Forget the Democratic Party. Forget the Republican Party. Just have a happy party this Christmas, arm yourself undetected while you still can and find some trustworthy friends who will do the same.
Thank you, Mr. Jacobi, for your thoughtful and interesting response to my post. I'm a conservative Democrat - so there, you've met two, and you'd be surprised at how many more remain.