FDR
Lou Guzzo thinks that because FDR was a liberal that the Democratic Party is in crisis.
A Liberal columnist in the equally Liberal press has opined, almost gleefully, it seems, that the Republican Party is wallowing in the midst of an “identity crisis.” In other words, he said, the G.O.P. is so confused that it doesn’t know what its policies are, nor which of its many leaders should be followed by party members.
Well this immigration thing is pulling them apart. I mean shit, Trent Lott is attacking talk radio. Really, though, I think for the most part they are willing to follow Bush off a cliff. Certainly on Iraq, and that’s pretty much the only thing that matters.
In the process, the columnist, in the true Liberal mantra of the day, blames President Bush for sparking what he calls the party’s identity crisis. It’s the predictable course of blasphemy espoused by the Left Wing these days in its frantic effort to install one of its own in the White House next yearCompletely ignored by the columnist and by virtually all of his Liberal mouthpieces in the print and broadcast news media is the fact that the real identity crisis now exists not in the Republican Party but in the Democratic Party, which has obliterated its once-honorable past and assumed a character that is anything but “democratic.”
Why is “Left Wing” capitalized? Or “Liberal” for that matter? And like half of the things to come? But the demos, the people, want the programs you’re about to talk about.
Frankly, I don’t believe the Left Wing columnists and the rank-and-file in the so-called Democratic Party aren’t aware of what has happened to the party in the past half century, dating back to the days Franklin Delano Roosevelt assaulted the U.S. Constitution with a barrage of Socialist programs.
Most of the rank-and-file Democrats have heard of FDR. But socialist. Seriously, I don’t think you know what that word means.
There it is! “Socialist programs”! I said it and I’m glad, because it’s the truth. FDR’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society were nothing more than Socialist measures parading as progressive programs. As far as I’m concerned — and I’m positive that historians of the future will agree — what was once the Democratic Party is now clearly America’s Socialist Party.
Historians of the future? We’re almost 40 years out of Johnson leaving office. The future is now and it’s tasty. And, um, what part of the Great Society is socialist? Medicare? Medicaid? The Civil Rights Act? The Voting Rights Act? What socialism? I mean there’s plenty not to like about Johnson, but I think historians of the future will be less attached to the failures of Viet Nam and will probably look favorably on the Great Society.
Thanks to FDR, LBJ, and the party leaders who followed, a nation that once adhered to the principles of private property rights and private industries, businesses, and even professions that operated unencumbered by governmental restrictions and takeovers is no longer free and a reflection of what our forefathers intended.
I like that our forefathers all had the exact same vision of what was to come. Many of them were full of praise when the French Revolutionaries actually took the private property of the wealthy French. And by and large our forefathers were opposed to any corporate power. Jefferson, for example thought corporations should only have limited charters and shouldn’t be able to own other corporations. Even Leftie McLiberal me thinks that’s a bit off the wall.
Thanks to the Democrats (read that latent Socialists), Big Government now rules America and dictates virtually every facet of the economy — a fact that will lead us to total Socialism or even Communism if we don’t make a serious effort to take back private rights and cut Big Government down to size.
Um, big corporations rule every facet of our economy. Not big government. And that’s the problem: the government is controlled by the people however imperfectly. Big business, not so much. At least now we’re only latent socialists. We’ve been downgraded.
Identity crisis? It’s not the Republican Party that doesn’t know its identity. It’s the Socialist Party, once known for nearly two centuries as the Democratic Party, that has forgotten its honorable past!
Well right, because if you look at Wilson or, oh my God, Bryan it’s all just whatever the hell big business wants. And certainly no meddling in corporate affairs by the government. So there!
June 24th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
“…in the past half century, dating back to the days Franklin Delano Roosevelt…”
A half-century ago, Ike was in his second term, starting to build the Interstate highway system. FDR died in 1945. Arithmetic is for liberal latent-Socialist Commie fags.
“…and even professions that operated unencumbered by governmental restrictions…”
My professional society EXISTS to lobby for government regulation of my profession! We were alarmed that the robber barons of the Gilded Age were exploiting technology without regard to human safety or public good, and so we engineers banded into a political union. In the 19th century, long before the New Deal or the Great Society.
“… to the principles of private property rights and private industries, businesses…”
It’s sad that any American could write this. Thomas Jefferson altered John Locke’s phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of property” into “… and the pursuit of happiness.” Lou Guzzo is so reactionary, he wants to go back to the days before our Revolution!
Ironically, one of the few places our Constitution mentions private property is in the Fourth Amendment’s right to privacy, and anti-choice wingnuts have spent thirty-plus years trying to destroy that right.
“It’s not the Republican Party that doesn’t know its identity.”
True. They keep banging Bibles, trying to give our national treasures to private companies, committing crimes against humanity, and inventing new ways to subvert our Constitution. They know how to stick to message!
June 25th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
A half-century ago, Ike was in his second term, starting to build the Interstate highway system. FDR died in 1945.
I know, but I thought the time line joke about historians of the future was good enough. And I thought his, hey, have you heard of FDR was an even crazier piece of that paragraph.