The United States of America was founded by people who did not ask their government for much more than the freedom to take advantage of opportunities. If our Founders had acted the way Democrats act, we would all be singing “God Save the Queen” to this day.

Last night, I watched the Democrat convention starting about 6PM Eastern. I stayed with it past Hillary’s speech through a few comments. Today, thinking about what I saw and heard, I realize that the entire evening was a single long whine. The image of families sitting around the kitchen table wringing their hands was referenced in almost every speech. We were all made to believe that there is something wrong with a world in which people don’t all get what they want – the job they want, the pay they want, the healthcare they want, and so forth. It was demeaning to the human race and demeaning to the citizens of the United States. The image of humanity projected by the Tuesday evening session of the Democrat convention was one of tears and groveling before the god-like government who must run to the rescue of the hopeless ones.

I am appalled by that image of the citizens of this country. We are not hopeless. We are not incapable of solving problems. We can and do deal with personal and family crises every day without any assistance from the government. In fact, every time the government intrudes itself into our lives, there is a very great likelihood that the government will take something away from us rather than do good for us.

The people among whom I live are strong and intelligent. I am not rich, and I don’t know any rich people personally. The people I know work for their money. Sometimes they lose their jobs, and do you know what they do when that happens? They either look for another one or start a business of their own. They don’t sit down to the kitchen table and wring their hands. They don’t cry on national TV because they are without work at the moment. Losing a job is not a national tragedy. I have lost jobs and found jobs throughout my life. It is a common saying among the people I know personally to observe, “I was looking for a job when I found this one.” The reality is that there are always jobs to be had, even though some are less desirable than others. The difference between us and the people the Democrats paraded on TV last night is that we don’t think any particular job is beneath us. We believe that work is honorable, and we work. That was what I didn’t hear last night. Work is honorable, no matter what work you do. It is your human responsibility to find or create work that will support your family. It is not the work of government to assure that you have the job you dream of with the paycheck you long for and the benefits that will take care of you, your family and your dog until you die.

In the world I live in, government does not exist to create jobs and assure income. In my world, government exists to protect the people from dangers that would prevent businesses from succeeding. We believe that if business thrives, from the corner grocery to the multinational oil company, people will thrive, too. Business is not the enemy of personal prosperity; it is the engine of personal prosperity.

Here is the change I hope to see during the final months of the election campaigns. I hope to see Republicans counter this sniveling, whining image of humankind with a new image, an image of free, strong people who take charge of their lives. That kind of people sailed west and marched west into unknowns and challenges and threats that make last night’s sob fest look like the pathetic pity party that it was. I hope we can change the image of US citizens from three-hanky crybabies to that of powerful, strong and free people who take on the unknown and whip it into a great country.

 

The road show in Denver is prime evidence of the real agenda of the Democrat party. It is all about appearances. Substance counts for nothing. The very idea of pretending to have a roll call vote cast from delegates’ hotels on Wednesday morning as a device to keep the public from seeing the real party issues is evidence of the complete socialist mind at work.

In an organization organized as a democracy, people have disagreements. Gather any two people together, give them a divisive issue to discuss, and you will almost certainly hear three points of view. Within an organization of millions, a delegate community of thousands, you will absolutely have differences of opinion on any subject that comes up. If the organization is a democracy, differing viewpoints will be expressed, everybody will vote at the end, and some decision will be made. The majority of votes will carry the day, and everybody will work together, even if some of the group sings “Wait till next time.”

When I watched Democrat convention on television, starting with 1960, I saw this sort of thing happen. The delegates gathered and raucously supported a lot of possible candidates for president. There were parades and demonstrations. There were speeches. Then there were votes. Sometimes there were a lot of votes. The party quivered and quaked and entered into combat with the gloves off. However, eventually they selected a candidate and moved forward. Nobody thought it was strange that there were differences. In fact, the party celebrated the fact that differences existed.

Not this year. This year, the leadership of the party intended for the convention to anoint and crown Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton’s wildly successful candidacy was supposed to be locked away in a dark corner and forgotten about. They wanted this event to put on the face of unity even if there is no unity. When Hillary rose up and her supporters began to speak, the party leadership, a spineless bunch of sycophants of fake “unity” for Obama, could not endure even the possibility that someone would bring the competitive ideas of the primary into the convention. What are they afraid of?

The leadership of the Democrat party is afraid of democracy.

If we ever needed any more evidence that the Democrat party is a bunch of socialists, this is it. Socialism assumes that some leader has all the truth on his side, that nobody in the common mass has any intelligence. Socialism gives all the power and all the morality to the state, and socialism will die if real democracy thrives. The Democrat party will not nominate the anointed leader if democracy survives in that party. The leadership has picked Obama, because they plan to run him, not because they plan for him to lead the free world. They cannot deal with even the possibility that Hillary might mount at this late date any challenge that will point up Obama’s complete failure to demonstrate leadership or qualifications to be our president.

I pray that Hillary’s supporters will make noise and demonstrate their fury and rise up and make themselves heard at this convention. I am not a Democrat, but there was a time when I respected that party as one element of a healthy political climate in this country. I never wanted Hillary to be president, and I don’t want that now. Nevertheless, I do want to see her candidacy treated with respect by the Democrats. I want the party to acknowledge that she is a real leader and a very successful candidate who lost by the slimmest of margins. You talk about being marginalized! Hillary’s very near miss in the primaries has been trivialized and marginalized and now it is being demonized by the people who ought to be very proud of a strong woman candidate.

There used to be two strong political parties in this country, each making the most of the opportunities a free people in a democracy can use to accomplish their goals. Now we have one party that has shredded the whole idea of democracy, ready to let the autocrats Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid steamroller the free citizens who call themselves Democrats.

You go Hillary! You, too, have been a complete socialist, and you are a metaphor for the wisdom of the sage advice, “Be careful what you wish for.” If you had been the winner, I can only imagine that this scenario would be the same. You would be the anointed, and Obama would be the trivialized. We all know that. I don’t feel sorry for you. I feel sorry for America.

At first we heard that Hillary’s name would not be put in nomination at the Festival of the Anointing in August.

Then we heard that Hillary gets to make a speech.

Then we heard that Hillary’s husband gets to make a speech.

Then we heard that Hillary will make her own video for her speech, rather than use Obama’s video team.

Now we hear that Hillary’s name will be placed in nomination, and her delegates will vote as pledged.

Why does anyone think that the Coronation Convention will not shatter before the very eyes of the Anointed One?

In the old days, the conventions were very exciting, what with smoke-filled rooms and deal-making and dust-ups between rival factions. It appears to me that we are about to be treated to a convention that will bring out the best, or the worst, of politics, depending on your definition of high drama. The upcoming Democrat convention has all the ingredients for a real cat-fight, and we all know who is the cattiest one around. She whom I will not name has many hairballs yet to spit up.

The Anointed One had better know who has his behind  when the Kitty-Cat Queen marches up to the front in Denver.