Posted by
PDX Dave on Monday, October 29, 2007 7:55:29 PM
It boggles the mind that Americans allow Democrats to occupy any positions of policymaking. It certainly doesn't speak well for our attention to history.
Democrats continually champion causes that purport to "fix" things, and Americans continue to bite - conveniently forgetting that the problem being FIXED was created by Democrats in the FIRST place!
It makes you want to choke the collective electorate until their eyes bug out.
Examine Democratic planks of the present and recent past: Fixing the "broken" health care system. Preventing teen pregnancy. Treating drug addiction. Reducing crime. Raising our children's self esteem. Fixing America's dysfunctional education system. The list could go on and on....... but I the limited byte capacity on the internet prohibits a full itemization.
Democrats broke the health care system in the first place, with unrestricted predatory lawsuits against the very ones who make us the most desired health system in the world: doctors, drug companies, and insurance companies. The very "unavailability" of health care that the left kvetches incessantly about is the direct result of price increases due to the liberals' best friend: lawyers. Now, they have the nerve to claim to possess the cure for the disease they created in the first place. Their "cure" - socialized medicine - would put the final nail in the coffin of the most effective health care system in the world, reducing it to the stupefying mediocrity that is Canadian and British health care.
After decades of championing a culture of unrestricted sex, Democrats have awoken to the horrifying reality that teenagers are making babies in alarming numbers. Rather than scratching their heads wondering "how did this happen," they roll up their sleeves and set about proposing ways to make it worse! "I know... let's give condoms to 11 year olds!" What a wonderful idea! Just the kind of "they will do it anyway" mentality that lead to the problem of teen pregnancy in the first place! Now they think MORE OF THE SAME will cure the problem? God forbid we should teach abstinence - after all, we can't hope to influence teenagers with reason, can we? Democrats largely favor allowing 16-year-olds to vote, but yet they believe they can't be trusted to understand and control their sexual impulses in a moral fashion.
Drug addiction follows the same template of tolerance verging on endorsement by Democrats, followed by feigned shock at the inevitable result, followed again inexorably by a socialist scheme for the "cure:" Free needles and more lax drug law enforcement. After lying about the use of drugs declining in drug-decriminalized states, the truth emerged: Drug use increased where drug laws were made more lax. Many conservatives rightly support a reform of our drug laws, but the difference is that conservatives generally need to see a plan first, rather than a pie-in-the-sky "everything will be fine" approach that simply opens the flood gates without an examination of the consequences.
Reducing crime, raising children's self esteem, fixing the broken education system..... all hold to the same pattern of things that become problems as the result of Democrat policies. I don't know who exhibits the symptoms of brain injury more: Democrats who laughably claim to hold the solution to the problems they created, or the American public who seems to have amnesia as to how those problems came to be in the first place.
PDX Dave
Behind Enemy Lines in Portland, Oregon