Comments on: What were the Democrats thinking last night? https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/05/what-were-the-democrats-thinking-last-night/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 07 Mar 2025 05:51:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/05/what-were-the-democrats-thinking-last-night/#comment-2791391 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 05:51:07 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140475#comment-2791391 Barry dropped a link in the European Conservatives thread which has relevance to this one, so I’m porting it over for the benefit of late readers (usually me).
This is excerpted from an email written to Mark Halperin, and it’s worth reading the entire thing, because this is how people become Changers.

https://markhalperin.substack.com/p/you-need-to-read-this-email

Last night for me was my breaking point. I watched with my husband as fellow Democrats (ironically wearing pink for women) sat there either stone faced or seething with disgust while the family of Laken Riley was honored and a young boy with cancer became an honorary secret service agent. I’m switching parties. It’s been coming for awhile, but that was the moment for me.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/05/what-were-the-democrats-thinking-last-night/#comment-2791388 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 04:36:17 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140475#comment-2791388 @ om > “Did you notice the institution was Huxley! Not Freedonia! What’s up with that?”

Wikipedia is still reliable for some things. The name is a joke in and of itself.
“The film [Horse Feathers, 1932] revolves around college football and a game between the fictional Darwin and Huxley Colleges.”

Freedonia doesn’t show up until a later film, “Duck Soup” [1933] — of which we know a distinguished alumnus.
“Groucho’s character—originally named “Rufus T. Firestone”—eventually became Rufus T. Firefly.”

Typically of the Brothers,

The film sparked a dispute between the Marxes and the village of Fredonia, New York. “Freedonia” was the name of a fictional country in the script, and the city fathers wrote to Paramount and asked the studio to remove all references to Freedonia because “it is hurting our town’s image”. Groucho fired back a sarcastic retort asking them to change the name of their town, because “it’s hurting our picture”.

The comments on the musical number in the clip, “I’m Against It,” generally agree that politics hasn’t changed in 90 years, but blame different parties..

@ Steve > “so that they can replace it with their shiny, new socialist utopia.”

In keeping with the Groucho Marx clip, I recently saw a comment about Democrats referencing the “Other Brother”:
“On your Marx, get set, go!”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_Brothers

]]> By: Steve (retired/recovering lawyer) https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/05/what-were-the-democrats-thinking-last-night/#comment-2791312 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:02:11 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140475#comment-2791312 While poor, old Sisyphus was condemned to eternally push that rock uphill only to have it roll back down again, the contemporary democrat party is condemned to continually push granny-in-her-wheelchair off the fiscal cliff, only to watch her roll right back up. Yet they never tire of doing so in hopes that some day, maybe, just maybe, she’ll hit the bottom and stay there. What is the definition of insanity again? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. So, may I suggest that the democrats, including the politicians running under that banner as well as the insufferably stupid people who vote for them, are… insane? Yes, I think that is accurate. It is also a sad comment on the party that can thinnk of nothing to campaign on other than wishing the destruction and demise of The American Experiment so that they can replace it with their shiny, new socialist utopia.

]]> By: JDinPA https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/05/what-were-the-democrats-thinking-last-night/#comment-2791306 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:28:17 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140475#comment-2791306 In all situations, the overriding (and often only) impulse of the 2025 Democratic Party is to lie. The Republicans are certainly not distinguished by any firm objection to lying, but they lack the Democrats’ unwavering commitment to it as a matter of principle. No Democrat politician in the past 50 years has actually believed that the Republicans want to end Social Security and Medicare, but they’ve all consistently told voters that for that long and longer. They haven’t done this in spite of the fact that it’s untrue, but because it’s untrue. Any voter who votes Democrat based on his or her fear that the Republicans are going to take his or her Social Security or Medicare away is an utter moron undeserving of the franchise. And anyone who believes that today’s Democratic Party – dedicated as it is to “mendacity first” – is suited, or has even the least desire, to participate in the type of republican (small “r”) self government envisioned by the U.S. Constitution is kidding himself or herself.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/05/what-were-the-democrats-thinking-last-night/#comment-2791288 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 03:04:52 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140475#comment-2791288 chazzand:

Did you notice the institution was Huxley!

Not Freedonia!

What’s up with that?

]]> By: Mike Plaiss https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/05/what-were-the-democrats-thinking-last-night/#comment-2791287 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:26:03 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140475#comment-2791287 cultural hegemony

Nice phrase, and spot on. So I guess pithy is the word I’m looking for.

]]> By: chazzand https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/05/what-were-the-democrats-thinking-last-night/#comment-2791284 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:55:40 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140475#comment-2791284 The Democrats should have all stood up and sung this song by Groucho many many years ago but still valid after their behavior last night. Anybody remember this little skit? https://youtu.be/xHash5takWU

]]> By: Ackler https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/05/what-were-the-democrats-thinking-last-night/#comment-2791280 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:38:38 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140475#comment-2791280 Sennacherib,

The left reached its ideological end a while ago. ‘Wokeism’ was the final repackaging of ‘class consciousness’. They truly are out of new ideas. Instead, they relied in cultural hegemony: dominating most institutions in our civil society. That is now being aggressively challenged and dismantled by Trump, which is why so many on the left are completely unhinged.

]]> By: Ackler https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/05/what-were-the-democrats-thinking-last-night/#comment-2791277 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:28:39 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140475#comment-2791277 Democrats certainly beclowned themselves and I’m sure it didn’t play well with the swing voters who saw it (although that’s not likely a large number). Like physicsguy, my liberal and leftist friends/colleagues have made no mention of the speech (or the Democrats antics) today. That suggests that deep down they realize the optics were quite unfavorable to them.

But of course few if any will remember all of this in a week. The ones who will are the committed ideologues who burst with rage at the mere thought of Trump. And that was who the Democrat theatricals were playing to last night: their unhinged, but well off and well connected deep base.

]]> By: Sennacherib https://thenewneo.com/2025/03/05/what-were-the-democrats-thinking-last-night/#comment-2791269 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:42:08 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=140475#comment-2791269 The Left have reached the ideological end.

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