I have been arguing for months now that liberals need to stop
their childish tantrums and outrage and get their act together if they are to
have any chance of regaining political power. I see Op Ed writers are beginning
to say the same thing. I am not especially a fan of Piers Morgan, but his piece
in the (UK) Daily Mail, Snowflakes
Are Screaming, But Trump's Likely to Win Again seems to me right on the
money. Eugene Robinson’s piece in today’s
Washington Post The
Democrats Are in Crisis Too is also worth reading. And finally let me also recommend
Roger Altman’s piece today, also in the Washington
Post,
It is clear that neither political party has any idea how to
solve the nation’s current problems, and indeed one can make a convincing
argument that neither party, as currently constituted, has any hope of even
understanding the nation’s problems, let alone finding workable solutions to them.
That is a pretty strong claim, but I offer the current comments and reactions
of Washington politicians of both parties as evidence. Is there any indication yet
from their public statements that either
the Republican or the Democratic politicians are even aware that they are out
of touch with their voters? Unpredictable
and eccentric as Trump seems, he is certainly more in touch with the feelings
and fears of his supporters then the professionals in either party.
I find it interesting that a recent poll by the Pew Research
Center suggests that the increasing gap between the political left and the
right in this country since 2011 has come almost entirely from the liberal wing
moving further left, rather than from any further rightward movement of
conservatives. That doesn’t bode well for Democratic prospects in upcoming
elections, because the nation as a whole simply isn’t that far left (in fact the
nation as a whole is pretty much in the middle), and will probably never be.
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