A New Party?

Time magazine article by a woman, more liberal than me, who feels rejected from the Democratic party. Money quote:

The Democrats made a huge tactical error a few decades ago. In the middle of doing the great work of the '60s--civil rights, women's liberation, gay inclusion--we decided to stigmatize the white male. The union dues--paying, churchgoing, beer-drinking family man got nothing but ridicule and venom from us. So he dumped us. And he took the wife and kids with him.

And now here we are, living in a country with a political and economic agenda we deplore, losing election after election and wondering why.

It's the contempt, stupid.

I wonder how many of us are out there? A lot, I imagine.

Two issues:

1) The democratic party is so pathetic, we can't even beat a moron like George Bush for two elections. There are two conclusions one can draw from this: a) America is stupid and backwards or b) We have no message and no candidates and have ostracized the people we ought to represent. The democrats opt for a), when the fact is, b) is closer to the truth.

We wonder why the Republicans get away with calling liberals unpatriotic? It's because there's an element on the left that does hate America, and instead of countering them and criticizing them, we let them speak on our behalf.

2) The this same problem is hurting us worldwide. How is it possible that the civilized world cannot get together enough to squash a pathetic ideology like radical Islam? The ideology is so stupid and false, it makes some of us underestimate it, but yet it lingers on, survives, and continues to gain status. This movement should not exist, yet all we do is complain back and forth amongst ourselves, allowing this thing to fester. It's truly pathetic. It make me feel disgusting and think the world is going to hell.

The Muslim world allows these fanatics to speak on their behalf, when they should be the ones crushing it. So we're left to fill the void and we're not good at it.