imothy BIrdnow

Don't kid yourself; this move to the extreme Left began long ago, as far back as Eugene McCarthy and probably before that.

But Reagan's success began the slow process of radicalizing the Democrats, and the election of 2000 galvanized some in the party. I remember Nancy Pelosi arguing the party needed to make a sharp left turn before she was elevated to House Minority Leader (and later Speaker) and she pitched her leadership based on "being proudly Progressive" at a time when conservative values were ascendant.

This has been coming a long time.

But why now? I suspect if we look at it we'll find the funding was there for a radical takeover. Now who do you suppose was funing the radicals? Why don't we know? We know George Soros does it with his many shell operations but who else?

Money is the lifeblood of politics and the radicals seem to have plenty of it, enough to grease the skids if nothing else. Democrats who think it political suicide are much more amenable when they see a big pile of cash.

I also suspect U.S. taxpayers have been funding them through things like USAID and other such schemes, laundering that tax money back to the radicals in the Democratic Party.

At any rate this article purports to show how the extreme left has taken over the Democratic Party.

It states:

Perhaps but that is just a symptom and not the cause. It's rather like saying the patient is ill because he has boubons on his skin and we need to treat it with a topical cream; the guy's about to die.

The reality is the Democrats are consumed with their lust for power and they have no original ideas or enthusiasm, and the radical leftists - mostly young people taught socialism in their schools - have the enthusiasm and unoriginal ideas that they think are uniquely their own and the exhausted Democrat Party embraced them as the only way to stay alive. I agree the party leadership was stale and predictable; the only weapon they had in their arsenal was "Orange Man Bad" and it did nothing for anyone. But the party had long since been moving leftward and the radicals just moved into a power vacuum. It would have happened had Schumer and Jeffries been pushing actual solid ideas or not. The Party was dying and, like an old rundown house an urban pioneer picked up for peanuts to rehab, the radicals are at work remaking the Democrats from a left/center coalition into America's preeminent socialist party.

At the moment they are rather like the Mensheviks in revolutionary Russia. In time the Bolsheviks - the violent socialists who thought the Mensheviks too squishy - will take over. That's how revolutionary parties work.

Democrats have been leftists certainly since Woodrow Wilson but they metastasized with Eugene McCarthy then George McGovern. The young kids who worked for McGovern were disillusioned and vowed to change the Democrats, who had offered rather luke warm support for McGovern. That was the beginning of the radicalization of the Democrats. People like Hillary Clinton got in the game after that, all part of an ideological crusade. Their revolution has been ongoing ever since and this is the final stage, where they display their true colors.

As Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle put it think of it as evolution in action.

We have to learn to stop thinking in terms of months and years and look at the longer picture. As Mitch McConnell liked to say (he's an ass but he was right here) we must play the long game. Or at least think in terms of long term strategy and context.

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