Democratic Politics

just before lunchtime on Friday, the 14th of March 2008 by Chad

You know what sickens me the most when I read letters to the editor pages on newspapers? It’s when people write in saying how great America will be when <insert Democratic candidate here> will be elected so that X, Y, and Z will finally happen! The only problem is in both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, the document that holds this country together, X, Y, and Z (Oh most definitely Z!) isn’t allowed. Because those are things the government shouldn’t be doing for people.

Basic history lesson here folks. The founding of the US came down to essentially this: the Founding Fathers were smart enough to realize that for thousands of years, the government had its hands in everything going on in people’s lives. You lived and died at the whim of the government. Your necessities were provided at the whim of the government. Your luxuries were provided at the whim of the government. And that is no way for free people to live. So they built in to the Constitution of this new nation controls that prevented these types of things. So that you could be as free as possible.

And now we have half the population wanting to give up their freedom for security and greed. I’m not talking about things like the Patriot act offense to freedom even though that also applies. But people wanting nationalized health care and other new big government programs. Why? It’s simple. It has nothing to do with the percentage of the population without insurance. That’s the big lie in all this. They can still get health care, all you have to do is look at the unpaid bills to hospitals to have that proven to you. It’s so that the lazy and the greedy can get what they currently have to pay big bucks for to be free. Well, not free, but in making everyone else pay for you. I find it fairly disgusting when a so-called free person says “Let the rich pay for my health care so I don’t have to.” Because you know for a fact that they’d squeal like a pig should they win Powerball only to find out they government is going to tax 75% of those winnings to pay for some other lazy person’s health care. Oh the injustice of it all then.

Health insurance is a pretty funny example. In capitalism each insurance company would try to do the best job they can so that more people use their services, and therefore overall they’ll make more money. But people wanting nationalized care seem to think that more government is the answer, not realizing that most of the problems with the entire system has been caused by the government stepping in and regulating things already. Why do you think you can only change your plan once a year? Because there are all these laws controlling what they’re allowed to do.

But this trend of more government is most evident in the Democratic party, with the Republicans only slightly behind. Which is why I find internal arguments such as what follows pretty darn funny. Because in the appeals to every special interest group the DNC has found they’re in a deep hole of their own making.

From Glenn Beck

Democrats aren’t happy that delegates from Florida and Michigan won’t be seated at the national convention because those states broke clear party rules. Well you know what? Too bad. We don’t say that enough anymore. Too bad. You agreed to the rules; you broke them. Now you’ve got to deal with the consequences.
“But Glenn. … Neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama will have enough delegates to win the nomination. We don’t want this to be decided in some backroom by superdelegates.”
Too bad.
“But Glenn. … You don’t understand. If we don’t seat delegates from those states now, then we might lose their votes in the general election.”
Too bad.
“But Glenn. …. The voters in these states are going to be disenfranchised if we don’t let their voices be heard.”
Too bad.

So either they have to disenfranchise two big states, follow the rules, and ensure a “united” party behind Obama (with all the Hillary voters royally pissed off), or let the people’s votes count, throw the entire primary/caucus system into complete chaos in the future as every single state moves the 2012 primary to they day after the 2008 general election since they know their voters will not be punished.