The Democratic Party's Privilege Problem

If you ever get the feeling that Democratic campaign staffers are a lot whiter and better-credentialed than the party’s voters, you’re right. And Swarthmore College sociologist Daniel Laurison now has data to back it up.

According to Laurison’s database of more than 4,500 Republican and Democratic staffers who worked on presidential primary and general election campaigns from 2004 to 2020, 68% of Democratic staffers are white, compared to 60% of Democratic voters.

The differences become even more stark when we turn to education. Over 90% of Democratic staffers have college degrees, compared to two-thirds of U.S. adults who have graduated college. And 40% of Democratic staffers went to elite schools, such as those in the Ivy League, compared to just 4% of the overall population.  READ MORE...

Tulsi Gabbard Leaves Democratic Party

Former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced she left the Democratic Party on Tuesday, denouncing the organization as an "elitist cabal."

Gabbard, who retired from the House of Representatives in 2021, attacked the institution in a nearly 30-minute video posted to her YouTube account. She did not announce plans to join the Republican Party or adopt any other political affiliation, however.

"I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism..." 

Gabbard said in an excerpt posted to Twitter.She went on to call on other moderate Democrats to follow in her footsteps.  READ MORE...

DEMS Dont DELIVER

 Biden Administration

Nancy Pelosi - House

Chuck Schumer - Senate

Are responsible for the following:

1. Inflation - increase in prices
2. No longer energy independent
3. Afghanistan Withdrawal Debacle
4. Increase in Illegal Immigration
5. Increase in Illegal Drugs
6. Supply Chain Delays
7. COVID-19 not controlled
8. Increase in Crime & Violence
9. Defund the police movement
10. Lockdowns and face masks
11. Critical Race Theory pushed in public schools
12. WOKE and the Cancel Culture
13. Censorship of Conservative Voice
14. Loss of Global Allies Support
15. Cannot Standup to Russia
16. Cannot Standup to China
17. Government Spending - Increasing National Debt
18. Blaming problems on Trump and others
19. Mainstream Media not covering all the news
20. No COVID mandates for illegal immigrants

A Conservative Liberal's Opinion

 

I was raised a Democrat by my Democratic parents and I remained a Democrat until 1980 when I earned an MBA from the Babcock Graduate School at Wake Forest University and realized that the economic policies of the Democratic Party were not conducive nor were they in line with our Free Market Enterprise System and Capitalism.

Yes...  it is true that Capitalism has created a multitude of Millionaires and Billionaires but it has also created the most POWERFUL ECONOMY in the world and that is not an easy task...

However, I still hold onto many of my liberal beliefs that have nothing to do with the economy because I believe that people have RIGHTS that should not be enfringed... like the right to choose or the right to own a firearm or the right of free speech and religion.

Most Importantly, I believe that our FEDERAL GOVERNMENT should NOT TELL its citizens what they can or cannot do.  I also believe in a small government, low taxes, a strong military, and a viable educational system that is focused on the retention of knowledge and not on grades.  I am totally opposed to debt or increasing the debt to provide services to the citizens just because a group of people think we should regardless of the cost.

We should provide only those services that we can afford and as long as we can afford them, then we should provide as much as we can, to show the rest of the world that the USA is a great place to live, work, raise a family, and retire in.

• What the Democrats are doing is not just WRONG but economically FOOLISH...  
• What the Democrats did in Afghanistan tells our allies that the USA cannot be trusted...
• What the Democrats are doing by allowing illegal aliens to enter the USA shows a complete disregard for our laws...
• What the Democrats have done when it comes to defund the police is idiotic but moronic as well and shows a complete lack of judgement and insight...
• What the Democrats have done with Critical Race Theory has and will continue to increase the bitterness and divide that already exists between blacks and whites in this country...
• What the Democrats are doing by using Capitalism to pay for Socialism is irresponsible given that no socialistic country has ever been successful...

It is doubtful that the Democrats will ever change their mindset of their party platforms...  so, my return to the Democratic Party will never take place in my lifetime...

It is a shame that I feel this way because I affiliated with the Democratic Party not because of my parents influence on me but because of John F. Kennedy...  the democratic party today is not anywhere close to the democratic party of JFK...  and that mistake will never be corrected as long as its present leaders continue to believe the way they do.

Friday Afternoon Reflections

The temperatures in my part of the world in my part of the USA in my part of Tennessee is a warm 68 degrees Fahrenheit...  not Celsius as some of us want us to be...  and, while that is another debate for another time, let me just say that I have been outside weed eating around my yard for the very last time in the year 2020, if anyone gives damn about what I do or what I think...  and, speaking of thinking...   this is what I was thinking while I was outside...

...THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCKS...  and, exactly what they suck or should suck, I shall not say...  but suffice it to say that they are not the DEMOCRATIC Party of my father or when Kennedy was President which I am ashamed to say.

I am a LIBERAL'S LIBERAL and was smoking marijuana long before it was popular or even legal in some States...  and, I displaying CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE long before it was popular...   all you have to do is look at the DECADE of the SIXTIES and you will see what I mean...  and no generation has ever come close to the civil disobedience that we displayed until all the burning, stealing, and looting that has been associated with the BLACK LIVES MATTER PARADES...

Moving towards SOCIALISM is not only irrelevant but immature as socialism is what we already have in the US of A, but I guess you are too illiterate to know that...  well, that can be the only explanation that makes sense...  all one has to do is look at everything that is PUBLIC...   as anything PUBLIC is a perfect example of socialism.

NOW...  if you want the kind of socialism where the government owns all the businesses, corporations, factories, and shops...  then you will have to wait a damn long time because I doubt our economic system will allow that to happen...  businesses will own the government long before the government owns them.  Take a look at all the LOBBYISTS that are hanging around Congress...  do you seriously think that any of them are socialists?

IN FACT...  it is CAPITALISM that has allowed/enabled these various forms of socialism to exist at all within this country...   and, it will be CAPITALISM that is what will permit socialism to continue.

Reasons THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCKS:

First - if they want to raise taxes or eliminate existing tax cuts then they do not have the American Workers foremost on their minds.

Second - the way they attacked a President and wrongfully influenced mainstream media leaves a bad taste in my mouth regarding their professionalism

Third -  the way they treated another professional human being in the nomination of Bret Kavanaugh and how they lied to the American Public regarding their political morality.

Fourth - the way they PUBLICALLY and GLOBALLY denounced and were against EVERYTHING the President tried to accomplish just because they could not control their HATE nor their DISLIKE of him just because they did not agree with him.

Fifth - the way they now ask the AMERICAN PUBLIC, the 70,000,000 who voted for TRUMP to FORGIVE and FORGET their actions of the past and give Biden & Harris their unmolested support as the country moves forward...  as if the last 4 years never happened...  and, their treatment of Trump never happened.

A political ideological war has started in this country between liberals and conservatives and it does not matter who started it because the fact of the matter is that it is here to stay regardless of which political parties wins the next few elections.  Southerners have never forgotten the CIVIL WAR nor have the forgotten the CONSTANT ACCUSATIONS on their families and friends because of what their ancestors did...  and, they will never forgive nor will they forget all the statues and the renaming of buildings that the BLACKS have managed to take place...   and, this battle will be fought one day on the streets instead of in the courts...  and, America will pay for its inequality and injustice and the political parties who care more about their re-elections than taking care of the general public.