The problem with Democrats …

(Don’t worry … there will be a follow up posting about the Republicans, too.)

It’s been said that if you’re not a liberal when you’re young you don’t have a heart.  But if you’re not a conservative when you’re older you don’t have a brain.

The Democrat Party has never grown up.  Democrats live in a never-never land of make believe still populated by Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and other wish-granting mythologies. They shut their ears to anything they don’t want to hear. They throw tantrums when they don’t get their way. They repeat the same lies over and over again as if repetition makes something true. They make up stuff when they get caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

You can’t reason with them, any more than you can with a 4-year-old. 

When you try to pin them down on anything they’ve said or done, they defiantly try to avoid responsibility. They refuse to accept there’s a right or wrong – the only thing that matters is whether you get caught; even then you might have an out on a technicality.

I think that’s what annoys me most about Democrats.

Even when they are caught red-handed they try to find a loophole to exploit. They are big on “intention” as the only measure of guilt. If you can’t prove they “intended” to do something wrong, they expect to get off scot-free.  And proving “intention” is always subject to interpretation.

Ted Kennedy didn’t “intend” for Mary Jo Kopechne to die when he drunkenly drove off the bridge and abandoned her to drown. Elizabeth Warren didn’t “intend” for her claim of Native American lineage to have any impact on her ability to get a job in academia. Obama didn’t “intend” to bow to the Saudi king, or for the $400-million payment for the release of the Iranian hostages to be considered ransom, in violation of long-standing U.S. policy.  Hillary didn’t “intend” to lie to the parents of the Benghazi victims, or to allow classified State Department documents on her unsecured private e-mail server to be vulnerable to hackers.      

That’s the moral gray area in which Democrats thrive.   

Their other way to avoid responsibility is to claim that whatever they’ve done is not all that different from what others have done. So if others got away with it, they should as well.

That’s why you have Hillary now saying that other Secretaries of State used private e-mail. Except, of course, none of them maintained a private e-mail server, nor deleted all their e-mails when asked to turn them over to the State Department. But isn’t it sort of the same?   

It’s childish.  As I said, it’s like trying to reason with a 4-year old.

The truly sad part is that Democrats have managed to convince a large number of Americans that they have their best interests at heart. In reality they don’t; the only thing that matters to them is getting their way regardless of the consequences. 

They’ll do anything to get their way. They’ll lie. They’ll cheat. They’ll even try to rewrite history to provide justification for their actions. Essentially, they are morally and ethically bankrupt; the perfect personification of the United States of Me, and Me the People.

Their traditional supporters are also wholly self-serving. 

Our national motto – for now – may be “in God We Trust,” but the Democrat motto is more aptly described as “What’s In It For Me?” That’s why the Democrats have the unwavering support of the teachers unions, public service employee unions, labor unions in general, Wall Street, and of course class and race warriors. Democrats are the party of big business as well. 

Democrats don’t do anything in the public interest – be that making our military stronger, protecting us from terrorists, providing a business environment that creates more private sector jobs, improving education outcomes, reducing crime, cutting the size of government, or reducing government spending and the national debt – if that conflicts with in any way with their base. 

How Democrats keep winning elections – especially in our decaying urban centers – continues to baffle me.  I can’t think of a single major city with good public schools.  Or one that’s been regularly creating good private sector jobs. Or one that families with children want to move to. 

However, I can name any number of major cities with skyrocketing murder rates, historic high black unemployment rates, massive poverty and dependency on social welfare payments, widespread government corruption, and other objective measures of failure. They are all run by Democrats, and have been for decades. 

Plus, their residents reliably vote for Democrats in every national, state and local election.    

The real question is why? 

One possible answer is that Democrats like things the way they are – no rules, no legal penalties or social stigma for bad behavior, plus more and more free stuff. The poor are made comfortably poor with little or no pressure – or financial incentive, to be honest – to work their way out of poverty when all their basic needs are already being met.  Why bother? 

For white middle- and upper-class Democrats, there’s no need to actually get their hands dirty helping others – government does it all with programs paid for with their tax dollars. Sweet.

So better-off Democrats can live comfortably in their suburbs or their downtown luxury high-rise pied-a-terre and still feel good about helping the underprivileged without having any real contact with them. They don’t have to go into their neighborhoods, send their kids to school with them, find jobs for them, or even associate with them in any way. They’ve outsourced everything – including their white-privilege guilt – to the government.

That’s why so many of the really rich are Democrats; they’d much rather pay someone else – in this case the government – to manage the poor so the underprivileged don’t show up on their doorstep. 

The ultimate problem with Democrats is that despite all their conniving and planning to maintain control by any means just about everything they do in terms of government policy and programs is short term. They don’t even attempt to address underlying problems; everything is a quick fix for the issue du jour – not a long-term solution.

Financial crisis?  Bail out banks and speculators.  Economic contraction? Increase the number of people on food stamps. Soaring national debt?  Raise the debt ceiling.  The growth of ISIS?  Use drones to kill the leaders. Mass murders by Islamic terrorists in San Bernardino? Push gun control legislation. Growing illegal immigration? Limit border enforcement and stop counting.     

Short term solutions and quick fixes are no way to run a country as large and complex as ours. The constant lies, deceit and reliance on specious “technicalities” from the Democrats continue to erode what little faith most Americans have in public officials.

Then again, that’s what Democrats seem to want – no accountability for anything. 

Next, the problem with Republicans …