Democrats' New Strategy: Almost Winning

Mark Steyn of The Chicago Sun-Times takes a look at the new Democratic strategery of "nearly winning the biggest political upset in recent history." This of course is another way of saying loser. Steyn points out what everybody knows; that the Democrats as a party have become soft and flabby. They have no intellectual energy or new ideas. They have old ideas of course. But those ideas just didn't pan out that well when socialism proved to be a massive failure everywhere it was tried. So now they have nothing to fall back on but hatred of Republicans and George Bush and blaming their problems on everything and everyone but themselves.

And one has to ask what they will do in the near future to solve their problems, if anything. They should be able to grasp the fact that the President is not going to be running again. But Democrats are still acting as though they have to stop Bush from achieving power. It is a weird dynamic from a so-called reality-based party. Of course the truth is that the Democrats are caught in an intellectual cul-de-sac from which there is no escape unless they are willing to question their most fundamental assumptions about the nature of the world in which we live.

The reality is that both theory as well as practice show the success of limited government and democratic capitalism. The Great Socialist Utopia is a mirage which will never be achieved in practice without the kind of tyranny and bloodshed which we commonly saw in the 20th century. And no one who has a choice wants to live under such a repressive system. Only democratic capitalism protects the rights and dignity of the individual while making progress and achievement possible. And the public knows that the Democrats are standing in the way blocking the way to that progress in any way they can.

Speaking of shivering coatless girls in Bush's America, spare a thought for the underprivileged urchins of the Bronx. The Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club, a nonprofit social-services organization in New York, receives millions of dollars in government funds to give disadvantaged youth in poor neighborhoods a leg up the ladder of life. But mysteriously much of the money wound up being diverted to the coffers of Air America, the liberal talk-radio network whose ratings are yet another example of "deferred success." The needs of disadvantaged Al Franken and his pals apparently outweigh those of Bronx welfare recipients. Perhaps Janeane Garofalo is the coatless girl John Edwards was talking about all those months. Air America looks like the broadcast version of the U.N. Oil-for-Food program, whereby money earmarked to save starving moppets somehow winds up in the bank accounts of bloated self-described do-gooders with political connections.