Robert Bernard Reich was the Secretary of Labor during the Cigar Administration, another grossly overpaid capo civil servant in the federal mafia hierarchy of that time, given undue credit for the 1990’s tech boom which democrooks had nothing to do with, unless you count being restrained from raising taxes by the Republican Congress as action.
Reich, a Bern-Bern cheerleader who mysteriously doesn’t self-identify as a socialist, wrote a column titled “The Death of the Republican Party” which appears on his website (which wisely doesn’t allow comments) but it requires some translation.
And here it is.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2016
I’m writing to you today to announce the death of the Republican Party. It is no longer a living, vital, animate organization.
It died in 2016. RIP.
No, no, these aren’t crocodile tears, people. Much to our marxist chagrin, the sham opposition party which we demonize in government-controlled schools and by Hollywood trash and left-wing “journalists” has been thrown into disarray.
It has been replaced by warring tribes:
Evangelicals opposed to abortion, gay marriage, and science.
People who believe God is higher than the Almighty State and that right and wrong exist.
Libertarians opposed to any government constraint on private behavior.
Anyone who opposes communist orthodoxy.
Market fundamentalists convinced the “free market” can do no wrong.
These don’t exist, but I need straw men.
Corporate and Wall Street titans seeking bailouts, subsidies, special tax loopholes, and other forms of crony capitalism.
Shhh, don’t tell, but we’ve supported all of the above for our side. We on the left are the croniest of…capitalists (I HATE that word!) but the media protects us. Usually. DAMN YOU, DRUDGE!
Billionaires craving even more of the nation’s wealth than they already own.
We Democrats believe you are allowed to make money only so long as we get to take half or more.
And white working-class Trumpoids who love Donald. and are becoming convinced the greatest threats to their well being are Muslims, blacks, and Mexicans.
Has more than 30 seconds gone by without a liberal calling non-communists racists? RESTART THE TIMER. We know you want strong borders, but we need votes. Third Worlders who don’t share American (I HATE that word!) values (I HATE that word!) are hot property.
(Editor’s note: the greatest threat to Americans’ well-being is liberal /communist Democrats)
Each of these tribes has its own separate political organization, its own distinct sources of campaign funding, its own unique ideology – and its own candidate.
Unlike we Democrats, united by a communist vision of complete control over every aspect of people’s lives, these Republicans have points-of-view not only unauthorized by us, but that compete with each other! This kind of diversity cannot be tolerated!
Here at the Democratic Party we have eliminated the troublesome marketplace of ideas. With us you have a CHOICE: communist tyrant Cankles Clinton or communist tyrant Bernard Sanders.
What’s left is a lifeless shell called the Republican Party. But the Grand Old Party inside the shell is no more.
The jig is up.
I, for one, regret its passing. Our nation needs political parties to connect up different groups of Americans, sift through prospective candidates, deliberate over priorities, identify common principles, and forge a platform.
Our nation needs one party masquerading as two, with neither representing the American people and both paid for by the political donor class. I mourn the death of the Big Lie.
The Republican Party used to do these things. Sometimes it did them easily, as when it came together behind William McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt in 1900, Calvin Coolidge in 1924, and Ronald Reagan in 1980.
Of the four presidents I just mentioned, only Roosevelt was like us, a socialist in love with power. McKinley fought democrats during the Civil War and later as president defended U.S. interests. Both Coolidge and Reagan LOWERED taxes–Coolidge four times!–which resulted in a disastrous booming economy and folks not seeking government dependency.
Sometimes it did them with difficulty, as when it strained to choose Abraham Lincoln in 1860, Barry Goldwater in 1964, and Mitt Romney in 2012.
Lincoln had his faults, such as fighting against slavery and segregation, cherished Democrat values. He’s long dead and his history easily rewritten. Goldwater was a close call, but we got LBJ in. Good thing, too. Vietnam needed to be escalated and lost. Romney, of course, was selected by us and did as told. Ahh, good times.
But there was always enough of a Republican Party to do these important tasks – to span the divides, give force and expression to a set of core beliefs, and come up with a candidate around whom Party regulars could enthusiastically rally.
We have lost our pseudo-conservative cuckolds. Trump has awakened the sleeping giant, ordinary Americans who reject sharia law and want strong borders.
No longer. And that’s a huge problem for the rest of us.
And by ‘rest of us’ I mean the thousands of illegals we are encouraging to invade, so we can inflate Democrat voter rolls. The dead can only vote so many times before suspicion is raised.
Without a Republican Party, nothing stands between us and a veritable Star Wars barroom of self-proclaimed wanna-be’s.
We’re scared shitless of Trump. (Ed. note: Wasn’t the Star Wars cantina a perfect model of diversity?)
Without a Party, anyone runs who’s able to raise (or already possesses) the requisite money – even if he happens to be a pathological narcissist who has never before held public office, even if he’s a knave detested by all his Republican colleagues.
We’re scared shitless of Trump.
Without a Republican Party, it’s just us and them. And one of them could even become the next President of the United States.
Us: communists
Them: Free Americans
Sorry, Robert. We’re cleaning house.
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.” — Richard Bach