Why Democrats Are Inept At Politics
Ideological warfare, psychopathy, and the dream of post-political technocracy
The tides of American politics shift as each of the two major parties wins congressional representation of roughly half of the voting population and has gone back and forth with presidencies for a century and half. This might suggest the two parties are equally capable, but that suggestion would be far from true.
If politics is nonlethal warfare between ideologically driven populations and their leaders, a struggle to terminate not your opponents themselves but their values, ideas, and capacity to influence society, the Republicans excel at politics and the Democrats are politically inept.
Yet the Democratic leaders are, of course, politicians, which means their function is to do politics. Therefore, the Democratic Party is as absurd and useless as a fish that can’t swim. This means that since the end of the New Deal in the 1970s and ‘80s — and I’ll come to that historical transition when Democrats became incompetent — the United States has been effectively a one-party pseudo-democracy.
Proof of Democratic Ineptitude
Luckily, the premise of political malpractice can be proven swiftly to allow us to address the more interesting matter…
