Whether he might have been experiencing one of those
very rare moments of lucidity, or it was one of those instances that you hear
people talk about where even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then, or
where even a broken clock is right twice a day, it would seem that MSNBC’s
Chris Matthews inadvertently experienced a episode of what can only be
described as a bit of brutal honesty, just this past Tuesday night, when he had
the sudden realization regarding all of the problems the Democrat Party now seems
to be having in the run up to the 2016 election.
Matthews commented recently on his show “Hardball”
that the many of the issues the Democrat Party stands for in 2016 are not “well
received” by large numbers of Americans.
Well no shit Chris, but then that’s only because the Democrat Party, as
a whole, couldn’t give two shits about what truly concerns the majority of
‘working class’ Americans, or those Americans who want nothing more than to
have a job. Because what has now become ‘Job 1’ of the Democrat Party to get as
many people as is humanly possible firmly attached to the government teat!
Our old buddy Chris said, “I’ve been working on this
project about the early elections in the ’50s and ’60s, and the Kennedy races
and I have to tell you, back then, being a Democrat was great. You talked about
unemployment, you talked about jobs, you talked about putting people to work,
you talked about minimum wage, you talked about Medicare.” But Chris, that was before the party decided
to lurch so sharply to the left that it has now become nearly impossible to
find a Democrat anywhere who’s able to explain the difference between a
Democrat and a Socialist.
And then Matthews went on to say, “Now you’ve got to
talk about guns, which people don’t want to hear.” And he added, “You got to talk about how coal
is bad for the country and bad the world. You talk about same-sex [marriage] in
a part of the country that isn’t too keen on that cultural stuff” and
“abortion.” He said, “So all of a
sudden, you’re talking about things that aren’t really well received. But in
the old day, a Democrat could just say, ‘There’s a lot of poverty here, let’s
do something about it.'” All of a sudden,
Chris? Really?
But you gotta to ask yourself, why is it that Matthews
seems so surprised? It has been people
like him who have refused to hold the Democrats accountable, and to keep
bringing up those issues that he implies used to be owned by the Democrat
Party. Now I don’t generally tune in to
watch Matthews, but having said that I can’t remember the last time I heard
anyone mention how it was that Chris chose to discuss any issue that is
actually of importance to most Americans.
Mostly what he chooses to talk about are those issues that most Democrats
want to talk about.
Anyway, it was in reacting to Matthews’ list of
issues the Democrat Party is facing that Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway
commented, “The Democratic Party moved to the left and I think it never really
had a conversation about where the party was going to go.” And it was Conway who essentially stated the
obvious when she said, “This is not Bill Clinton’s Democratic Party.” She went
on to say, “That’s obvious. The centrist, moderate, southern governor,
Democratic governor, who are those? Where are the Blue Dog Democrats.”
Matthews interrupted Conway to ask her if she was
“thrilled” and she said, “I’m thrilled because Hillary Clinton is trying to
wage right now, quite unsuccessfully, a two-front war. Bernie’s to her left so
she’s moving over there when she can. Donald Trump has vanquished 16 opponents,
she can’t vanquish one. So I think he could pivot to a general election and
take her on the next 90 days.” And it’s
right about now that I’m wondering just how many Democrats there are who might
be wishing they had been better able to gauge the political winds and had
entered this race.
Matthews has long been one of those who, and right
from the beginning of this sleigh ride to Hell known as the Barry ‘O’
presidency, felt that it was the job, even the responsibility, of our
state-controlled media to come rushing in to defend our first black president
and to do everything possible to make his administration look good. Regardless of the damage being done to the
country. However, I think it fair to say that for the most part, despite their
best efforts, nearly every attempt perpetrated by those involved in this
circling of the wagon has failed pretty spectacularly!
And by the way, Matthews seems to be somewhat
surprised to find out that the issues Democrats are talking about, aren’t very
popular. But this my-way-or-the-highway-sit-in-the-back-and-shut-up-we-won
mentality has been going on for nearly 8 years now! His ratings alone should have been a big clue
that few support the left’s rather twisted agenda. Most issues presented by the
left were edicts with no discussion allowed. There has been obvious oppression
against any and all dissent, going so far as to use federal agencies to squelch
all opposition.
It's like.....Duh, all of a sudden Rip Van Winkle
woke up! And as far as Democrats wanting
to do something about poverty, we’ve been down that road, it was back in
January 1964. Back when Johnson declared
‘war on poverty’ in America. But even back
then it was less about poverty than it was politics. Johnson himself said he’d have blacks voting
Democrat for the next 200 years. And
since then the taxpayers have spent $22 Trillion on Johnson's war, and to say
that it has been a total failure would be too kind. And he has 148 years left of his initial plan
of 200.
Not only have Democrat policies failed to eradicate
poverty, it’s at the same time that these same policies have been responsible
for the skyrocketing of out of wedlock births and teen births along with the
number of single parent households while at the same time being behind a
significant decrease in literacy. Obviously I could go on ad nauseam listing
the failures and unintended consequences, but we all know the results. However it is worth pointing out that that $22
Trillion is only a couple Trillion more than our current Nation Debt.
So what’s a guy like old Chris to do? Will he work to bring those issues that once
made one proud to be a Democrat to the forefront, or will he instead simply get
on the anti-coal, climate change, gay marriage bandwagon despite the fact that
he seems to have admitted that such “things that aren’t really well received”
by a great many Americans? Let’s face
it, independent thought is not something that’s really accepted within the
ranks of the Democrat Party, so there is no doubt that this brief fling with
sanity we see from Matthews, is sure to be short lived.
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