Comments on: Sabato’s Crystal Ball: Another Twofer http://themoderatevoice.com/19332/sabatos-crystal-ball-another-twofer/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:27:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/19332/sabatos-crystal-ball-another-twofer/comment-page-1/#comment-146536 DLS Sat, 03 May 2008 21:52:05 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/john-mccain/19332/sabatos-crystal-ball-another-twofer/#comment-146536 They have lost many a battle since 1980, but the Dems still are winning and likely have won the war. People tend to look to government, and particularly Washington when they look to government, first and foremost. Oh, there is obvious contempt for the more degenerate, destructive, nihilistic, pathological radicalism of the late 1960s Left and its legacy. An example addressed in one book I got when I went to St. Louis several days ago is by McWhorter, "Winning the Race," about the large part of the black American community who has not progressed, if anything, done the opposite. He discusses the radicals "anger for anger's sake" and what was happening then and continues to happen now, aped by Chomsky-ish naive kids in every year's succeeding generation -- "therapeutic alienation."<br><br><a href="http://www.manhattan-institute.org/winningtherace/">http://www.manhattan-institute.org/winningtherace/</a><br><br>But overall, the Dems have won the war. Maybe the conceit as well as anger and destructiveness in the late 1960s was sparked by the same event that is said to have been the nadir and start of the revival of the Right in this country, namely the 1964 Presidential election. When you think about it, Goldwater tried to struggle against the New Deal and all it was encouraging Dems to attempt in growing arrogance -- but the New Deal (and the modern welfare state with Washington forming a de facto if not de jure national all-supreme government) won.<br><br>And one result of that victory, and all it represented back to the New Deal -- "We will tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect" -- is what appeals to an ever-larger-every-year community: Those who are addicted to entitlements (their opiate).<br><br>That more than any demographic changes that favor the Dems (not only minority population growth, but aging and dependence on Washington for health care by the older Americans alone, with more groups to come), the view of an all-powerful Washington and dependence on entitlements (leveraged if new entitlements can ever be created), has the Dems looking strong for the future, with the GOP these days and likely in the future as little more than The Opposition (without amounting to much of a real, political, fiscal, philosophical opposition, especially these days in the Northeast). They have lost many a battle since 1980, but the Dems still are winning and likely have won the war. People tend to look to government, and particularly Washington when they look to government, first and foremost. Oh, there is obvious contempt for the more degenerate, destructive, nihilistic, pathological radicalism of the late 1960s Left and its legacy. An example addressed in one book I got when I went to St. Louis several days ago is by McWhorter, “Winning the Race,” about the large part of the black American community who has not progressed, if anything, done the opposite. He discusses the radicals “anger for anger's sake” and what was happening then and continues to happen now, aped by Chomsky-ish naive kids in every year's succeeding generation — “therapeutic alienation.”

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/winningtherace/

But overall, the Dems have won the war. Maybe the conceit as well as anger and destructiveness in the late 1960s was sparked by the same event that is said to have been the nadir and start of the revival of the Right in this country, namely the 1964 Presidential election. When you think about it, Goldwater tried to struggle against the New Deal and all it was encouraging Dems to attempt in growing arrogance — but the New Deal (and the modern welfare state with Washington forming a de facto if not de jure national all-supreme government) won.

And one result of that victory, and all it represented back to the New Deal — “We will tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect” — is what appeals to an ever-larger-every-year community: Those who are addicted to entitlements (their opiate).

That more than any demographic changes that favor the Dems (not only minority population growth, but aging and dependence on Washington for health care by the older Americans alone, with more groups to come), the view of an all-powerful Washington and dependence on entitlements (leveraged if new entitlements can ever be created), has the Dems looking strong for the future, with the GOP these days and likely in the future as little more than The Opposition (without amounting to much of a real, political, fiscal, philosophical opposition, especially these days in the Northeast).

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