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This Can't Be Happening / Op-Ed
Published: Sunday 9 September 2012
“Scanning the Republican delegates and convention-goers in Tampa, one labors mightily to find even one black face, or even an obvious brown latino face or an asian face.”
The Democratic Party is a Big Fraud
Just looking at the video images of the two conventions -- the Republican one last week in Tampa, Florida, and this week’s Democratic convention in Charlotte, NC -- one can see the fundamental contrast between the rank-and-file of the two parties.
They are really and truly different cohorts.
Scanning the Republican delegates and convention-goers in Tampa, one labors mightily to find even one black face, or even an obvious brown latino face or an asian face. It is a white, and predominantly male, crowd that one sees. It is also an angry crowd, cheering at the venom spewed against Democrats, welfare recipients, immigrants and others who are not part of the “real America,” of allegedly self-reliant white men.
Scanning the Democratic convention’s delegates and attendees, meanwhile, one is immediately struck by what an ethnic stew it is, with blacks and latinos, whites, asians and even Native Americans all mixed together, with straights and gays standing side by side. And these people are cheering passionately when speakers talk inspiringly about the need to take action to support those who are less fortunate -- the poor, the immigrants who came to the US with their parents as little children, and grew up in the US, who could now be deported to countries of their birth where they may not even speak the language, the disabled, the unemployed.
The big difference between these two groups of people, and the masses of rank-and-file supporters of the two parties across the nation, is clear: Republicans are, by and large, a selfish, smug, and angry group of white people who don’t want anyone cutting in on their turf, who don’t want to have the government do anything to help the less fortunate with their tax dollars, and who, by the way, want their own taxes lowered, but also want all kinds of benefits from the government, like tax credits for their businesses, and to send their kids to private schools. Democrats are, for the most part, a multi-racial group who believe that government should help the less fortunate, whether it’s getting access to health care, paying for food, sending small children to daycare so the parent(s) can work, getting job training, ensuring access to clean water and clean air, or having good schools for their kids. They are generous people who are concerned about others, not just themselves.
What is different about the Parties themselves is also apparent...
16 comments on "The Democratic Party is a Big Fraud"
September 09, 2012 11:27am
Neither of the links, nor searching, produces the article on the Iranian site. I'm writing Nation of Change to object to such incomplete postings. The bit posted fails to make the argument highlighted by the headline.
September 09, 2012 2:36pm
Try here:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/08/260433/americans-and-
troubled-party-politics/
All I can say is...ouch!
September 09, 2012 11:22am
The so-called two party system, the election process, is a fraud. 400 families own just about everything in the US, and they pull the strings irregardless of whom we think is at the helm.
September 09, 2012 11:17am
This article is well worth searching for. I think the later links are correct (remember to put "detail" in the url).
And yes, Maclib37, it is interesting that this gets published first in an Iranian outlet. Maybe that's why our bloodlust is so strong to murder millions of Iranians. (And i'm only half joking here.)
The problem is that whoever wins this election (Obama or Romney) looks like they will be a super loser for America.
Anyhow, you can vote for Jill Stein or other third party candidate.
And since we are 100% sure to lose (to either Obama or Romney), we need to think very clearly how we can get the Democratic party back under the control of the people by 2016.
For Heavens' sake, they nominated McGovern in 1972. And although he didn't win, it moved the national conversation in the right direction.
September 09, 2012 1:44pm
DANH:
So you vote for Jill Stein. You know she can't win, but you "make a statement," right? So you feel pious and ignore the fact that you perhaps helped to elect Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, who are, IMHO, a great deal worse than Obama and the Democratic party.
Think of it for just a moment, please. Romney gets elected and the billionaires are content in their fortresses, and looking forward to the day when they have no taxes at all. We will have a repeat of the Bush disastrous presidency, with further tax cuts for the 1%, and cuts to social programs that benefit the needy, perhaps even another unfunded war. People who believe in justice and fair play will be discouraged, not fired up, because they will see that our democratic system is, in fact, for sale to the highest bidder, and they know they can't match the cash piles of the 1%.
Social Security will be tinkered with, possibly privatized, thus spelling the death knell of one of the most popular government programs. Medicare will be vouchered, meaning that elders must pay even more for their health care, at a time of their lives when they need it most. They will be at the mercy of the insurance companies and Big Pharma.
Chances are good that one or more Supreme Court justices will retire, and the saviors of the 1% will appoint another conservative lackey, maybe two.
Your children and grandchildren may have to live with their right-leaning decisions.
McGovern's nomination didn't prove anything except that Democrats could be beaten. Now, I happened to like McGovern, and was an early supporter of Gene McCarthy, but McGovern wasn't strong enough as a candidate, no matter what his ideals were, and he made some foolish statements about what he would do with the North Vietnamese just to have peace.
If this wasn't such a critical election, what I see as a "last-chance" to prevent our official designation as a plutocracy, then I would say, go ahead and make your statement. After all, I once voted for Dick Gregory because he was the only anti-war candidate on the ballot in NY.
But this is 2 years after the Supreme Court opened the floodgates of untold millions, anonymous and unregulated, from corporations who just care about the bottom line and bloated perks for incompetent CEOs. Do you think this is the right time to essentially sit out an election by voting for a candidate that the mass of Americans never even heard of?
Maybe you don't care about Medicare or Social Security, or the placement of our democratic system on the auction block, but I do, and I won't do anything to make it easier for the 1% to buy votes. So I'll vote for Obama, and hope he does better in a second term, because at least I feel sure he'll never be as bad as Smiley-Face Willard or Lyin' Ryan.
September 09, 2012 10:49am
Here's the (omitted) essence of the author's argument, and I quote:
"In short, while the Republican Party and its elected officials do a fairly good job of representing its troglodyte voter base, the Democratic Party is a gigantic fraud. It pretends every four years to be representing those voters that it needs to keep going to the polls and electing its candidates to office, but time after time, it turns around, once the election is over, and betrays its voting base."
I happen to agree wholeheartedly and I'd urge readers to Google the piece and read it. Also, I'd encourage Nation of Change to be sure and include the URL whenever the whole piece is not published in this space in the future.
September 09, 2012 10:22am
The article can be found in its entirety at http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/08/260433/americans-and-troubled-pa...
under the original title "Americans and Troubled Party Politics."
September 09, 2012 10:35am
No joy finding it at those URLs either.
Try this: http://goo.gl/4gmih
That's goo "dot" gl "slash" 4gmih
September 09, 2012 10:04am
Does anyone else find it interesting that this article appeared first on PressTV the Iranian TV news outlet? The big fraud seems to be that all American politicians are too beholden to powerful money interests. While that may be true, does it make the Democrats the party of fraud? Since when did any politician's promises reflect the reality of what was actually possible to get done?
September 09, 2012 9:53am
This page won't even let you post a full link?? Here's another try to give you the location of the full article, which fits its title:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/08/260433/americans-and-troubled-pa...
After the last slash mark, should be "americans-and-troubled=party-politics/
Sheesh.
September 09, 2012 10:41am
A slight correction: that "equals sign" between "troubled" and "party" should also be a dash. And that IS the original title of the article: "Americans and troubled party politics". Where the heck "The Democratic Party is a Big Fraud" came from as an article title is a mystery...
September 09, 2012 9:37am
A misleading headline which has nothing to do with the article and what appears to be an incomplete article, what is going on?
September 09, 2012 9:36am
I found the rest of this story at
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/08/260433/americans-and-troubled-pa...
September 09, 2012 9:31am
What the heck does the headline have to do with the article? Just misdirection?
September 09, 2012 9:31am
What is the big fraud? Any more to this story or we should take your word for it, our messiah.... (a la Life of Bryan)!
September 09, 2012 9:05am
Soooooo, do you plan to publish the entire article or only page one?