Some think the Dems are in total denial and in a state of confusion on what they need to do to repair their reputation from the caning they took in the last election…..
It is humorous since they have been taking the same caning since 2010 and they did not pay attention……so will they this time?
But since that Clinton supporters are all butt hurt by the results of 2016 they need consoling….
This is an open letter to Clinton supporters from the Mises Institute…..a Libertarian group from the ground up…..
Dear Clinton Voters:
I know this election has been painful for you. Many feel betrayed and even believe yourselves no longer living in the country you thought you were. Reflect on that pain and frustration for a moment. Now recognize how you feel now is how an equally large, possibly larger, number felt for the past eight years. Those who are of a liberty bent feel it all the time, no matter who ends up in office. Reflect on it, feel it, understand it, own it.
Before you get the wrong idea, this is not my attempt at rubbing in your face the loss of your candidate or an endorsement of President-elect Donald Trump. If anything, I share your pain and frustration, just for an entirely different reason. What you’re feeling, this hopelessness, this feeling that you’re no longer represented, this feeling that people other than you are now able to dictate your way of life, this is all a result of the massive expansion of the Federal government. Elections have long ceased being voting for someone you think represents the lifestyle you want to live and are, in practice, an exercise on determining whether or not you get to impose your preferred lifestyle on someone else.
Source: Secede and Decentralize: An Open Letter to Clinton Supporters | Mises Wire
There will be many such “suggestions” in the next couple of years…..but the question really is….will Dems try to change their direction or will they just pray for rain…..the Dems will be as always…they will gloat when they win and whine when they lose…..same as Repubs.
But there is a few suggestions that the Dems should consider……
1. Federal Government, please get your act together. Come up with a plan to reduce the national debt. Enforce the law or make new ones but do not willfully disrespect our laws. Re-engineer your vast array of laws, regulations and bureaucracies to try and deliver efficient accountable government services.
2. Back off in attacking who I am and my family’s values. Get off this social justice, ethnic group obsession. We are all Americans. Please treat us equally and speak to us as one class of people with the same aspirations.
3. Supreme Court, interpret our existing laws. Do not usurp the role of the State legislatures by creating new laws.
There is only so much you can do…..but that is considering if you really want to find a way to regain your standing among the people……
Your idiocracy in this last election made me think of a quote by H.L. Mencken……”On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
Or possibly “you reap what you sow”……”you asked for it….you got it”!
I am sorry….but so far I see nothing that would give me any confidence for the future.
Interesting how the three things you mention here closely align with Libertarian and Green party ideals. The one thing that I hope comes out of this years election is a greater acceptance for a party that isn’t Republican or Democrat as I see no reason why either of these parties won’t serve up a crappy choice again in 2020. Unless the Democrats pick Bernie Sanders, as in that case, he’s got my vote 🙂
I will be watching the Greens in the coming years….they need to ramp up their outreach and they will be a better party….did you like the Mencken quote? chuq
The Mencken quote made the post.
”On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
It’s almost like he traveled into the future, saw the state of things, and traveled back to leave us this nugget of inspiration (or warning) 🙂
Yep very prophetic…..
First of all the Dems need to come up with their own version of the “Autopsy” the Republicans once contrived to try to understand and address their conflicts and their weaknesses as a party and I am still wondering what the general reaction of the Left would have been like had they won the election.I think if the Dems had won they would go off on their normal arrogant tangents, pull their heads back into their shells and do more of the same things they have been doing ever since 2008 and the Republicans would be out in the streets breaking windows and burning things. Half a dozen of one and 6 of anothere if you ask me. Depends which foot the shoe is on.
They will not…they may print something along those lines…but with all the cash in DC…it will remain business (pun intended) as usual…
for sure!
did you see that Nadia has had her book launch? c
O.K…..having a brain fart …. who is Nadia?
No worries…the brain fart was mine….that comment was meant for gigoid…sorry about that….another “mental pause”…LOL
🙂