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Once upon a time there was a company that, every so often, would advertise the nicest merchandise for really great prices. Their advertising never actually showed the merchandise but instead showed the beautiful boxes in which the merchandise would arrive.
When their customers received their boxes they would open them only to discover the boxes were empty. If their customers complained the company would blame their competition for the fact that the boxes were empty.
The next selling season the company would again advertise the nicest merchandise for really great prices and when their customers received their boxes they would again be empty and would again blame that fact on their competition.
The next selling season the company would again advertise the nicest merchandise for really great prices and when their customers received their boxes they would again be empty and would again blame that fact on their competition.
And so forth ad infinitum............
Okay, now let's take that same story and change it around a little. We will change the selling season into national election campaigns, the company into the liberal Democrat Party; their advertising and the pretty boxes into the Democrat Party campaign promises; their competition into the Republican Party; the empty boxes into their unfulfilled campaign promises; and their customers into the constituancies the Democrats say they represent (unions, minorities, women, gays, environmentalists, the poor, etc, etc, etc).
Just about as far back as I can remember what was being said in national elections the Democrat party was promising to its constituancies almost everything under the sun and when asked why they didn't deliver on those promises they always blamed the Republicans. It was the same every time national elections rolled around and still is.
But wait a minute!!! What if the Democrats had the ability to keep those campaign promises but chose not to. What if they had a majority in Congress and could pretty much do as they pleased. What if they had a veto-proof majority in Congress and could pass any legislation they wanted to even if every Republican voted against it. What if they had a veto-proof majority in Congress AND the Presidency and still didn't keep their campaign promises.
Folks, for most of the time since the 1930's one or the other of those conditions has been in effect.
Here is a chart to show you what I am talking about (raw data supplied by the Clerk of the US House of Representatives):
Note that almost continuously since 1930 the Democrats have held a majority in both houses of Congress and in 18 of those years held a veto-proof majority in one or both houses. The question then becomes why the Democrats did not keep their campaign promises and blamed the Republicans when they didn't.
The answer is .... THEY CAN'T!!!
Keeping their campaign promises means fewer issues on which to run the next election. Further, the better educated people become, the higher incomes they earn, the more comfortable they become with their lives the more likely they are to become conservative and vote Republican. It therefore is in their own political interests to NOT keep their campaign promises.
For almost 3/4 of a century the Democrats have blamed the Republicans when they themselves failed to keep faith with their constituancies but the truth is they can't if they want to stay in power. For almost 3/4 of a century the Democrats have used they same political rhetoric and tactics and in the end have failed to keep faith with those who voted for them.
If you are a minority, a woman, a union member, a gay, an environmentalist, poor, a lifelong Democrat, or other Democrat supporter I have a question for you.....
WHY ?
Why vote for a political party that for more than 70 years has betrayed those who voted for them for the sake of political power.
Isn't it time to hold them accountable and say to them, "no more"....... or are you just going to let them stick it to you again?