A little frontier wisdom for Democrats

[pscot]

This from the Mountain Express in Idaho. It was posted on the Idaho forum.

http://www.mtexpress.com/story_printer.php?ID=2005134195

Democrats are prey. Republicans are predators.

That's the post-election view from the Intermountain West where residents are intimately familiar with the life-and-death dramas that play out every day in the wild places that dominate our landscapes.

As long as Democrats act like prey, Republicans are going to track them down, rip their policies to ribbons and consume them in elections.

During the recent off-year election, Democrats from President Obama on down offered up only weak defenses of major new laws and spending that history will show saved the nation from economic disaster and far worse unemployment levels than we're experiencing today.

History also will show that when faced with imposing tough new regulations on the Wall Street firms, banks and insurance companies that caused the crash and brought on the economic fallout on ordinary people, Democrats blinked when Republican wolves howled.

Then, like all prey, most Democrats ran and became scared of their own shadows.

Nationally, voters aligned themselves with the howling predators and not the meek, skittish Democrats who still seem to believe that offering olive branch after olive branch to Republicans will make them loved instead of lunch.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. I think "prey" is a fair term.

Unfortunately.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Sadly.

Yes, we form circular firing squads. Fortunately, all we're armed with are cans of aerosol shaving cream.

[madfloridian]

2. Excellent, and very true.

[RKP5637]

4. Excellent comparison and analysis! Is this ever true! Which way is the

wind blowing so I know which way to run! n/t

[dbt]

5. This is *exactly* the problem.

And exactly why our black-and-white/good-v-evil/wild-west, Fox-viewing Murka sides with the Republics. What a shame.

[Joe Fields]

6. This is NOT what happened.

What happened was that corporations have their talons firmly embedded in almost every politician in Washington.

While the republicans were pretty much out in the open about this fact, democrats needed some kind of cover. It was the dems job to make it look like they had the citizen's best interests at heart, all the while playing us like the patsies we are.

C'mon, people! Do you honestly believe that if a democratically controlled congress and white house really wanted single payer, or to get out of the two wars, or to solve immigration problems, or give us back our right to free speech and privacy, that we wouldn't have all of that? Or at least be on the road to having all of that?

If our dem leadership wanted to thwart the media blitz that the repubs run, don't you think they could raise the money and change the message?

Get a fucking clue.