430 South Capitol Street Southeast
Washington, DC 20003
To whom it concerns:
Hello fellow Democrats, my name is XXXX XXXXXXX,
I have been a life-long Democrat, except for when I voted for Reagan, twice in the 80's. Watching the display on Capitol Hill this past month has me in utter disgust for my beloved Democrat party. It got me thinking, how the hell did this happen, so I began to unwrap it all in my head, and this is the best I could come up with, on how our party has become a manifest disaster. When did we start disrespecting the flag? When did we as a party openly hold contempt for fundamental rights such as free speech, privacy, property, and above all, the right to a presumption of innocence? When did we stop caring about the middle-class, when did we stop caring about jobs, and manufacturing? When did we openly call for the harassment of people who disagreed with us, and when did we start refusing to debate the merits of our position on the many issues that confront our society?
It seems our current crop of Democrat leaders has gone all in on the politics of division, and identity, and I can't fathom how this could have happened, but I am going to offer a possible explanation. For years we embraced, even patted ourselves on the back that, we had lock-step control of our education system, the arts, and craft industries. I agreed enthusiastically with the long-game, ensuring that our philosophies on political governance would continue to build, and shape young minds for decades to come. I'm starting to think that, in theory, what seemed like a great idea at the time, is turning against us, and here's why I think it back-fired, and went terribly wrong.
Our nations higher-education institutions have been spitting out self-righteous, indignant souls for at least the last 20 years. These kids have no grasp of personal responsibility, nor accountability. They're fed a poisonous message from beginning through to the end of their education. One that openly embraces the messages in my first paragraph. These messages are NOT American, they are not democratic, and they certainly do not reflect the messages of past great Democrat leaders; in fact, they are clearly opposite of that message. These kids have taken on positions of power within several key, and important communities, namely, big tech, and what passes for journalism these days.
As I delve further into my soul search, I find that the current Democrat leaders have begun to fear these voices, and for whatever reason I am not sure. When and why was it ever a good idea to cater to socialists, communists, and fascists? They used to have their own parties, as maligned as they were, they had them. Now, they've become part of our party, and they're loud and well funder and organized. Yet, allow me to remind the leaders of our party. THEY are still a very tiny fraction of the American voting electorate, they always have been, so I am not clear why we (Which means YOU) have embraced their platform? You think I'm kidding? No, I'm quite serious, the modern 2018 Democrat party is a collection of tribes, of competing interested parties, that all have their own axes to grind, and now they belong to the much larger Democrat party which gives them some legitimacy.
You've made a terrible error in calculation, or, God forbid (I'm not religious by the way) this is all part of the plan. I hope I'm wrong about that, but when did moderate Republican's steal our issues? How did we let them do that to us? I'll tell you how, because our leadership is disjointed, unfocused and mostly undisciplined cowards! That's right, YOU let them in, and now you can't stand up to them. What will become of us, and how do we fix it?
