tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post2731494578997386221..comments2024-01-08T04:16:25.601-08:00Comments on Ché (What You Call Your) Pasa: The Bourbon DemocratsChé Pasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-66093172104266883532017-07-10T06:49:31.152-07:002017-07-10T06:49:31.152-07:00Indeed. Ultimately my puzzlement is over the long-...Indeed. Ultimately my puzzlement is over the long-term internet focus on destroying the Democrats while essentially holding harmless anything the Republicans say or do. <br /><br />Of course Democrat fecklessness, corruption and betrayal are part of it, but these aspects are no less true of Republicans -- objectively, they're truer. Yet they get a pass. Why?<br /><br />Part of the rage against the Democrats is clearly orchestrated by R operatives. It's their job; it's what they do. It's the game of politics the way it's played in this country, and the fact that Ds have no effective counter to it is also part of the game. <br /><br />But still, there's something odd about the almost total focus on destroying one party while protecting the other. <br /><br />As for Bourbon Democrats, it might be worth considering that Bourbons are still reigning. The King of Spain, for example, is a Bourbon. As far as I know, he's well-regarded by "his people" as was his father before him. Europe is littered with Bourbons and Bourbon pretenders, some of whom are politically involved, some even get elected to office. In other words even after repeated revolutions and upheavals (World Wars, anyone?) the Bourbons are still there...<br />Ché Pasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-65761971037861714132017-07-09T20:56:21.812-07:002017-07-09T20:56:21.812-07:00Dear Baffling Unknown Commenter,
Just how did you...Dear Baffling Unknown Commenter,<br /><br />Just how did you baffle Googol's flagship Blogger? Well done, chap! You must be quite a hacker.<br /><br />I assume it is summer wherever you hail from?<br /><br />Just where is it that you hang your hat? Some place that has a different definition of cynical, <i>sans doubt?</i>Flying Juniorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02098313953658606206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-27904767045324049972017-07-09T10:15:20.912-07:002017-07-09T10:15:20.912-07:00I think people's hatred of the Democrats is pe...I think people's hatred of the Democrats is personal, they really believed in them once and of course were betrayed, as anyone who really BELIEVES in the Dem as a force for significant positive social change, as opposed to just voting for them as being less damaging, will inevitably be.<br /><br />And so I suspect their personal feelings of betrayal have lead them to lose all objectivity pretty much. "Hell hath no furry like a woman scorned" or some less sexist phrase to the same effect. Their scorning was personal. <br /><br />So whole swaths of reality get left out of their analysis, like that Dems occasionally do a mild milquetoast good and Republicans do nothing but cut wide swaths of destruction, and all this while the more basic problem is money and it's influence in politics. <br /><br />All Americans are raised with illusions, many never move beyond them, some get permanently stuck in some kind of disillusionment stage where all that matters forever and ever is that they were betrayed by Dems and if only Dems were gone everything would be wonderful, others become purely pragmatic in voting (LOTE), others become cynical and apathetic ...jrshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05111685666858721087noreply@blogger.com