Now that the New Hampshire primaries are over, and the opposing sides have shaken out, I have a couple or three observations about the Democratic Party and the people in it.
After watching their Presidential campaign ads, watching much of their national convention, and studying the faces and words of those people, I have to say that these people are not the Democrats of yesterday….
Yes, they’ve always had an unhealthy fawning regard for government—the all-purpose hammer for an odd reality that presents only protruding nails—but the Democrats of today are a different bunch. Looking at those massed faces at the Democrats’ convention in North Carolina (a state filled with people who don’t particularly like them, thenkyouveddymuch), it appears that today’s Democratic Party is a party of…well…bitterness. They all seem to be motivated by a kind of…um…bitterness, borne of envy, even hatred, that colors every position, every word, every deed. This is ironic, given the endless claim of that party and their prostitutes in the Mainstream Media, that it is the Republicans who don’t like other people.
Another irony—and this comes also from watching those activist Democrat party members at the national convention and elsewhere—is that these people don’t appear to be…well, to put it bluntly, very smart. At the convention they appeared to be some kind of slack-jawed rabble, united only by their bitterness and envy. Why is this ironic? Because the refrain from them and their media-prostitutes is that it is the Republicans who are “stupid.” But when you consider the crowds of Republicans at their convention in Tampa, compared to the Democrats in Charlotte, you think…what a bunch of yahoos the Democrats are.
I don’t say any of this just to be insulting to a citizen who votes Democrat, or even to any member of that party. These are just recent observations, after all, and obviously aren’t applicable to every Democrat voter. But still…to put it simply, it really boils down to this: The basic difference between Republicans and Democrats can be seen and summed up in their their reactions to seeing a successful guy or gal driving an expensive car and pulling into a big expensive home.
The Republican would say, “Someday I’ll drive a car like that, and someday I’ll have a house like that too!”
The Democrat would say, with underlying bitterness, “That’s not fair. Someday we’ll take all that away from him.”
It’s a very unhealthy attitude. And it’s why I’m a New Hampshire Republican today.