Why Bother Helping the Democrats?
Why is this blog called democratic planks? Wouldn't it be better to have a third party?Well, yes. It would be better--as a global leader, this country needs a political discourse that goes beyond the mutual masturbation of Blue vs Red.
However, the Neocons have successfully taken over the Republican party, and in only five years transformed it from the party of small government and fiscal responsibility into the party of the largest government expansion seen by any living American, with the possible exception of the WPA. It has expanded not only in physical size, but into the areas of controlling the press, and invading our privacy (which really flies in the face of conservatism, does it not?).
We already have the infrastructure to fight them with: the tattered remains of the Democratic Party. People are already registered to vote Democrat, for instance. Building a new party will take too long to combat the imminent threat, and besides, we already have a model for how to proceed: do exactly what the neocons did--redefine the discourse through lexical shift (that is, a new language).
We are going to do nothing less than rebuild the Democratic Party by redefining it and the language it uses.
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