Let Democrats be Democrats

By Gerald K. McOscar January 4, 2017

History teaches that all men have blind spots that are impervious to facts. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in the aftermath of 2016’s presidential election.   President-elect Trump’s every utterance, action, and choice is condemned as demagoguery, war mongering, or ethnically or sexually discriminatory by Democrats and their allies. He has been criticized for saving American jobs (Carrier), for saving taxpayers money (Boeing), and for starting to rein in a bloated federal bureaucracy (Scott Pruitt to head the rogue EPA). Clearly, he can do nothing right.  The two camps are divided as much by opposing worldviews as opposing political views.  It is liberals, Ivy League credentialed, sophisticated, tolerant, openminded stewards of received wisdom and “settled” science, who are most impervious to facts and resistant to change.  Ironically, these putative descendants of Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason function in a world distorted, like a funhouse mirror by emotion at the expense of reason.......Napoleon said, “never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”   Republicans should pray without ceasing that Democrats continue to be Democrats........Read more