Democrats: RIP, America

We could not bear to watch Presiden't Bush's State of the Union speech last night and so we didn't. Why? There was simply no point in watching the Dems display their autonomic contempt without subtlety and for the Republicans to echo their political spinelessness without shame. It's really too much for the highly rational Wonker to bear. Coupled with this and the usual, predictably negative and pre-scripted "reactions to the speech" from the talking network heads, we chose to skip the visual experience and read the speech in the morning newspaper, skipping the commentary there as well, generally penned by Gramscian demagogues hewing to the Party Line.

But Hugh Hewitt perhaps sums up the atmosphere in today's Washington best with the following riff on the Democrats:

As I watched the Democrats last night I knew --again-- that the country will not "come together" over the necessity of victory. My friend the officer wrote below of the enormous tragedies and dislocations that would follow in the wake of our withdrawal from the region (including a Turkey-Kurdistan war that destabilizes NATO) but the ears of the Democrats are closed. All they can think of is wounding Bush, and attempting to discredit his legacy that they must realize is secure far beyond their maneuvers, which seems only to madden them more.

This deep derangement of a major political party is unique in American history --not even the southern Democrats of 1860 acted out of Lincoln-hatred when they split the Union, but out of a deeply misguided political theory and the desperation that economic and cultural attachment to slavery had bred.

This modern Democratic Party is almost all fury, a fury fueled by a collective though suppressed understanding that the holocaust of southeast Asia in the late '70s and the vulnerability of America on 9/11 are both burdens at their party's door.Watching their replay of the Vietnam-era tape means that there will be no "debate" on the war, simply the choosing of sides. Republicans who side with the Democrats on this the most important issue of the day should lose the support of their party.

Hugh has it exactly right here. The rich, spoiled Boomer leftists who now serve as the Democrats' Party Theoreticians are less focused on the future of the U. S. than they are on preserving their own narcissistic legacy. An instant replay in Baghdad of our Congressionally-forced retreat from Saigon, running with a Woodstock soundtrack in the background, would allow them to retire gracefully in a pleasantly orgasmic haze, secure in the knowledge that the audacious goal they set in 1968—the cultural weakening and resulting destruction from within of the United States, the last remaing bulwark against the negative utopia of Marxist socialism—had at last been accomplished, bringing to a successful close their subtle and relentless 40 Years' War against those once-traditional American values that were shared by nearly all.

It is, in the end, nearly painless to be a Democrat today. Democrats are nourished by a vast ecosystem of hollow prizes, leftist foundations, and monetary awards that fund and sustain them while denying access to anyone who deviates from the Party Line. The Party-controlled MSM supports them with unanimity and while relentlessly savaging their foes with neverending propaganda fusillades. Ultimately, this allows Democrats to bask effortlessly in the comfortable, positive glow that only unlimited and uncritical face time and softball media questions can assure. Is it a wonder that they have evolved into a human subspecies whose primary characteristics include intellectual vapidity, casual condescension, and a faux Marxist bent that is preached but never practiced?

Democrats never need to fear consequences. A party of wealthy, snarky narcissists and hacks, posing behind a glowing façade of benevolence and humanitarianism, these preening, contemporary Macaronis cannily focus on the outward appearance of grace, the better to mask their near-complete lack of intellectual parts, let alone a discernable moral compass. Like The Great Gatsby's Daisy and Tom Buchanan, they posture as social models and benefactors for us all. Yet from Vietnam, to Cambodia, to the hills of Kent State, they leave chaos and death in their casual wake while others are forced, off-camera, to pick up the grisly pieces. Small wonder leftist Dems regard the Islamofascists as putative allies in their War Against Bush and Amerikkka. These murderous jihadis are the heroic Viet-Cong all over again, an enemy that can inflict enough mass slaughter on us that we'll go home and wait for the end. Dems don't have to worry about this, however, confident that the defeat they're even now engineering can always be peacefully negotiated with genocidal maniacs. (But remember, Dems "support the troops," no doubt while scheming to cut funding for Iraq and "redeploy" it to the socialist kleptocrats in the U.N.)

Meanwhile, the Islamofascists have been watching, and perhaps studying Gramsci and the phenomenon of cultural hegemony as well. Something like this is already helping them topple the ghost of a once-proud Europe, one dhimmi at a time. We're next on the murderous mullahs' list, and the Democrats don't have a clue. Because they really don't care.