Musings on the Dim Dems

It should be clear to anyone with even an Eric the Bee brain that the Democrats cannot protect us from the sociopathic and psychopathic theocratic (our way or you will be cleansed) cultists that make up much of the Republican Party these days. The Republicans have more effective demagogues and pied pipers. Recent election results are simply the latest in a string of reminders of this. Hell, the Democrats can't even pass legislation that would help the masses without pre-emptively gutting it as Obamacare and the recent debacles over infrastructure spending should remind us. But then the Democratic Party is a party largely bought and paid for by America's economic elites and it has not been as cleansed of "impure thoughts" as the cultic Republican Party has been since Ronald Reagan though corporate Democratic political elites have occasionally tried to do just that.

What this means is that the Democratic Party as it is presently constituted is not the solution to the real problems an America that is not really a nation faces at the moment including the potential of violence from a Republican Party in which one in three of its devotees or cult members, according to a recent poll, think that violence may be needed in order to "save America". It is, in actuality, part of the problem.

One solution to this problem might be what has happened in the United States at least a couple of times over the course of its history: the demise of a political party, in this case the mostly bought and paid for Democratic Party, and the rise of a new or several new and truly alternative political parties. The Progressive Democrats might form and organise a kind of American version of the New Democratic Party of Canada or the Greens of Germany. The Corporate Democrats could form a political party that is, as Nancy Pelosi once remarked, cheerleaders for the religion of capitalism. 

I hope, by the way, that this reconfiguration of American political party culture happens before the shooting in the latest American culture war starts, a culture war that will be potentially deadly in a number of ways for those of us who are not inclined toward theocracy because it is likely that much of the army and much of America's internal armies, the FBI, the police forces of the nation, and the Border Patrol, will be on the side of the narrow minded anti-intellectual secular and religious theocrats.