- Joined
- Jul 18, 2017
This is something that has puzzled me for some time, especially since i have largely backed the Democratic party up until recently. Because recently they have begun to break the social contract. Explaining what I mean; the Social Contract is the series of written and unwritten rules that exist between the sovereign and the subjects. Or in the case of the United States, the Federal and State Governments and the citizens. The primary rules of such agreement is that the individual citizens surrender some of their property and freedoms in exchange for the Governments protection of the rest of their property, body, and natural rights. The contract exists solely between the Government and the Citizens. Not the people of other countries.
Both they and the Republicans have always had a very different idea what the social contract between the Government and the American People. It is simplistic to say the Republicans want to take less property and give more freedom vs the Democrats wants to take more property and less freedoms. Depending on the issue one or the other could be more extreme in the give and take. But the overall unifying point was that it was an interaction between them and the American people. The ENTIRE American people. Not the people of other countries, and certainly not a select portion of the country to the detriment of the other. Yet lately the Democratic party has chosen to break this social contract. They are now obsessed with the plight of Non-Americans, to the point that they demand the American sacrifice on their behalf to their own long term detriment. This is a very new development. Even Obama never went so far as to argue that we should have open borders for everyone. Quite the opposite in fact. This is a flagrant breach, as it not just ignores what the American people may want, but it also jeapordizes their security. Something any government must offer in order to have legitimacy with the governed.
But that is just a side show to what I feel is an even worse violation. Namely the writing off of almost 2/3rds of the country in favor of an inner city urban core and expat globalist elite that likes to vote in by absentee ballot. The Republicans like to bitch about urban voters, but they don't write them off and will usually show up to campaign even in places they are generally guaranteed to lose. The Democrats by comparison refuse to show up in many rural elections, and if they do its usually to preach some alien morality to the unwashed heathens that don't live in LA, San Francisco or New York. They don't come across as a political party that wants to govern these vast stretches of the country. Rather they seem to want to conquer them by imposition, and front load in the cities in the hopes they can pretend those evil right wingers don't exist at all. This also breaks the social contract as no matter the outcome of an election, the winner becomes the sovereign and must govern at the consent of the governed. Even if that consent extends as much to simply passively accepting the outcome of the election in the hopes of getting their guy in next time.
Which again is something Republicans do, but Democrats seem increasingly determined to not do. Especially when we take into account the shrieking about impeaching trump and punching Republican congressmen. My brain is melting trying to figure out why they are doing this and why they think its a winning long term strategy. Even if it does work out for them at the ballot box for some inexplicable reason, their elections will eventually have no legitimacy and that is recipe for a major disaster.
Both they and the Republicans have always had a very different idea what the social contract between the Government and the American People. It is simplistic to say the Republicans want to take less property and give more freedom vs the Democrats wants to take more property and less freedoms. Depending on the issue one or the other could be more extreme in the give and take. But the overall unifying point was that it was an interaction between them and the American people. The ENTIRE American people. Not the people of other countries, and certainly not a select portion of the country to the detriment of the other. Yet lately the Democratic party has chosen to break this social contract. They are now obsessed with the plight of Non-Americans, to the point that they demand the American sacrifice on their behalf to their own long term detriment. This is a very new development. Even Obama never went so far as to argue that we should have open borders for everyone. Quite the opposite in fact. This is a flagrant breach, as it not just ignores what the American people may want, but it also jeapordizes their security. Something any government must offer in order to have legitimacy with the governed.
But that is just a side show to what I feel is an even worse violation. Namely the writing off of almost 2/3rds of the country in favor of an inner city urban core and expat globalist elite that likes to vote in by absentee ballot. The Republicans like to bitch about urban voters, but they don't write them off and will usually show up to campaign even in places they are generally guaranteed to lose. The Democrats by comparison refuse to show up in many rural elections, and if they do its usually to preach some alien morality to the unwashed heathens that don't live in LA, San Francisco or New York. They don't come across as a political party that wants to govern these vast stretches of the country. Rather they seem to want to conquer them by imposition, and front load in the cities in the hopes they can pretend those evil right wingers don't exist at all. This also breaks the social contract as no matter the outcome of an election, the winner becomes the sovereign and must govern at the consent of the governed. Even if that consent extends as much to simply passively accepting the outcome of the election in the hopes of getting their guy in next time.
Which again is something Republicans do, but Democrats seem increasingly determined to not do. Especially when we take into account the shrieking about impeaching trump and punching Republican congressmen. My brain is melting trying to figure out why they are doing this and why they think its a winning long term strategy. Even if it does work out for them at the ballot box for some inexplicable reason, their elections will eventually have no legitimacy and that is recipe for a major disaster.
