Jupiter is right.  After just one day of the Dem’s Convention, I’ve stopped fretting about my (perhaps relevant) vote in Florida: there is no way I can vote for them. On the other hand, without the 1965 reforms, the Dem may have evolved into a genuine labor party that fought for working families, fair wages, curbs on preferential free trade, etc.  Instead, they became the kumbaya, cultural left, and that means they became fundamentally anti-white.

Mr. Piatak, I thought conservatives were the new counterculture.  On almost any cultural indicator that I can think of, from homosexual marriage to women in the military to illegitimate births(hurrah for Brad and Angeline), the Left sets the cultural tone of the country. 

The Democrats are on the majority side with regards to culture.  The reason why the election is close is that millions of Americans are reluctant to have a black president.

You’ve got it right, the Democrat Party has been making a jackass of itself since 1968. It has lost it’s working class roots, and replaced it with liberal elitism. The only difference I can tell between the Republicans and the Democrats is that the Democrats want the state to pay for the collateral damage that Wall Street Bankers and the CEO classes have inflicted on the US economy, and the American working class---who has thought of itself for years as the “middle class”. The only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is that the Republicans are not offering anything but platitudes and appeals to patriotism. Now they are watching as the cheap housing, decent health care and educational opportuniites are being are going up in cost, while their wages have been flat since 1979.

“ ... cheap housing, decent health care and educational opportuniites are going up in cost,”
Cheap housing rising cost due to inflated frn, Big Labor, and gov regs.  Decent health care suppresded by Big Pharma in cahoots with AMA, FDA, ADA, and other culprits (Fishbein did his devil’s work well) in stamping out competition of alternative practices, gov approval of questionable remedies, and State’s continuing war on the supplement industry.  State ed policies are designed to give compliant, obedient workers to be presided over by an elite class of managers and executives who collude with an ever expanding state.  Public school results are terrible and the once private sector has been seduced with taxpayer money.  Some wag once said that the State not only produces effects opposite its stated goals, but does so at a higher price and diminishing positive results over time.  ST

“There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties.”--George Wallace, 1968.

I think that Mr. Wallace got it right; at least regarding the elites of both parties.

I concur with Esmerelda Pearl’s comment.  In a few other articles I have pointed
out that the Democrats are suffused with the ideology of Liberalism.  But the same
goes for the Republicans.  Kudos to the late George Wallace.

Simon sez: “...Cheap housing rising cost due to inflated frn, Big Labor, and gov regs.  Decent health care suppresded by Big Pharma in cahoots with AMA, FDA, ADA, and other culprits...”

No Simple Simon. Housing costs are caused by the deliberate actions of “libertarian” Alan Greenspan, and the FED, which is the prescription for ending the business cycle..duh...guess who? “Libertarian” Milton Friedman.

When are you going to get it through your head that “libertarianism” is a fraud, it’s all about pimping for the CEO classes and the international finance capitalists, at the expense of the middle class. All this nonsense about ‘Freedom” and the “state” is a lot of bull-toss.

As evidence, we have the fact that the housing bubble OCCURED under a REPUBLICAN administration.

As for prescription drugs, that’s another “free market fraud”...most modern drugs were developed by the state under various research fundings to universities and private companies, and the NIH. So again, we have the “libertarian” ideal of privatizing public property and socializing private risk.

Not to mention the fact, that we have no “free market” in health care, because of a third party payee system, which sets the “market” price for health care, drugs, etc. And of ‘course, the way the “profit motive” works in this case, is to scrimp on services, limit access to certain technology, and exclude “high risk” cases, which is anyone who has the bad luck to ever get sick.

The solution to the health care cost crisis is not more “privatization” but to nationalize the risk/insurance
part of the health care system to stop the insurance system from skimming off the most profitable clients, and exluding everyone else. Another solution would be “privatizing” government funded research---and
put the drugs out to competitive bid for distribution and manufacture.

Of course, I wonder why your so-called “lovers of freedom” are always yakking about how
terrible working class unions are, when you embrace the right of medical doctors to unionize via the AMA....
and of course, support unrestrained immigration, except for professional services---which are unionized.

Look, everytime a “libertarian” opens his mouth, he spits up hypocrisy.

Oh, Simon. I forgot to mention the effect that “globalization” and unrestrained immigratiion
on the wages of working folk---another “libertarian” bright idea that benefits some at the
expense of the rest of us.

OPEC, China, India...no “free market” there. Yet YOU have championed them for “opening” up
their economies to “free trade”. What a farce.

Look, if you want to be for “freedom”, then be for freedom. Just don’t pontificate LIES about
who it benefits, and who pays the price of your “freedom”. Devotees of “libertarianism” are
either fools who embrace utopian fantasies, or prostitutes for the rich. Which are you?

Hey Tom? I usually agree with almost everything you say. But why do you think that Mrs. Obama pontificating about her “family” values, or the prominant use of the term, “middle class”, or closing every speach with “God Bless the Troops” or “God Bless America” is any more unbelievable then when Bush2 or any Republican
does it?

I mean do you really believe that Bush2 or Cheney are really devoted Christians? Or their American flag pins make them real patriots? How often do we see the SAME kind of tripe at the Republican contests.

Look, the Republicans have made a mockery and a fraud of patriotism, but it has worked for them for 40 years. Now that the Democrats are doing the same thing, why should you be upset. Be upset at the Republicans and the Conservative movement, which has lowered American politics and religion to a set of advertising slogans.