Where have all the good Democrats gone?

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What happened to the Democrat party?

Senators Frank Church (Idaho), Henry “Scoop” Jackson (Washington), Joe Lieberman (Connecticut), Sam Nunn (Georgia), Bob Kerrey (Nebraska), and President John Kennedy (Massachusetts) were all Democrat politicians I would have voted for when I was a young man. There’s no one left in that party that’s comparable.

Today the Democrat party is in shambles. Their bench is thinner than the Colorado Rockies or Chicago White Sox. All it has left are Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsome, Tim Walz, Pete Buttigieg, and Flossie the Wonder Chicken.

The party doesn’t have a message. It has no leaders. Those elected Democrats that do appear and speak out in public when they’re not promoting programs that endanger the public or attacking law enforcement officers, are a laughing stock.

• Democrats live in an anti-American world of make believe, fantasy and chaos including:
• Wide open borders
• Advocating for violent illegal aliens that have been convicted of murder, rape, child abuse, domestic violence, etc. while ignoring their American-citizen victims.
• Attacking law enforcement officers in an attempt to break into ICE detention facilities to protest the jailing of alien MS-13 and Tren de Aragua gangbangers.
• Insisting that men should be on girls sports teams, in girls locker rooms and bathrooms, and even in female prisons.
• Pretending in the biological impossibility that men can be women and vice versa
• Promoting wealth distribution
• Proposing higher taxes
• Enabling a hatred of Israel and Jews and the advocacy of Hamas and other savage antiemetic terrorists
• Spreading woke beliefs claiming that America is full of inequities and that the country is divided between oppressors and the oppressed.
• Promoting DEI and gender theory that inspired insanely inhumane and cruel medical procedures on minors including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and ghastly genital mutilation surgery.
• Corking the flow of U.S. oil and natural gas supplies, while enabling Russia to profit and Iran’s crazed mullahs to sell its petroleum stocks to support terrorists, build a nuclear bomb, and drive up prices for American consumers.
• Weakening the American military while at the same time tolerating brutal totalitarian regimes
• Humiliating the U.S. with its surrender to the Taliban in Afghanistan that caused the death of 13 Americans, the wounding of countless others while abandoning billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment and a strategic military base near China.
• Rising prices, increasing the cost of living, and diminishing wage gains with record high inflation for Americans.
• Dismissing Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts demanding that his investigations into fraud, corruption, waste, and abuse of taxpayer funds be stopped.
• Publicly shouting profane curses and slurs while remaining clueless about democracy, government, public policy, and the Constitution, a document most of them have probably never read.

This isn’t an exhaustive list. But it’s enough to show that Democrats have no new ideas and the ones they do have are intolerable and totally unacceptable to the majority of Americans. Their pantry is as empty as their heads. Their only agenda is to call for more socialism. They display no love for the country and show only contempt for those that do.

Nothing they do makes sense to the average American. They are psychotic in the causes they embrace. Americans don’t like any of it. In fact, recent polls indicate Americans are opposed to the Dems and their programs by wide margins including one showing an astronomical 80 percent disapprove.

As the Democrats survey their scorched political landscape and the smoldering debris of their failed and insane policies and wasteful programs they are beside themselves with anger, incomprehension, and self-doubt about why the polls show the American public wants nothing more to do with them. Yet these crazed defeated leftists continue to fanatically promote their absurd nonsense.

Trump’s wildly successful Middle East trip has left them flabbergasted with a couple even praising his efforts.

Their Congressional leaders are Senator Chuck Schumer, a dreadful bore who the Democrats can’t tolerate anymore, and their Congressional leader, Hakeem Jefferies, an inarticulate Lurch-lookalike, who appears that he hasn’t slept a wink in six months.

Schumer and Jefferies are the circus freak show barkers while the show features Jasmine Crocket, Al Green, Maxine Waters, Eric Swalwell, Shiri Thanedar, Ilan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Talib, AOC, Pramila Jayapal and Bernie Sanders.

It’s become so bad that the maintenance staff at the Washington, D.C. Democrat National Committee Headquarters has requested that the local “Bring out your dead wagon” add three additional stops at their facility each week.

Dave Scott spent several years as a daily newspaper reporter in Florida and New York before joining the corporate world and heading up communications activities for IBM, ITT and other Fortune 50 companies in the U.S. and Europe, eventually running his own Atlanta agency. He lives on Amelia Island, FL, and blogs at www.davescottblog.com. He also writes, edits, and publishes the annual Amelia Island News-www.amelianewswrecker.com, a newspaper parody with the tag line “Amelia Island’s sacred cows make the best burgers.”

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