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June 28, 2006
Dean Acknowledges That He Lives in a 1960s Time Warp
Democrats often seem to live in a time warp, where the year is always 1968, the daisies in their hair never wilt, people still trust the mainstream media, left-wing politics haven't yet been proven utterly unworkable, and we can afford to lose our overseas war. Yesterday DNC Chairman Howard Dean confirmed this impression in a speech during which he attempted to equate the Bush administration with the allegedly "authoritarian" 1950s and promised a return to the "Age of Enlightenment," the 1960s (here's partial video).
As nostalgic Dems seem not to realize, the hippie era was not the apex of American civilization, but the nadir. It was a time of riots, assassinations, government bloat, social decay, and some of the tackiest fashion statements ever made this side of Paris. Ironically, the only good thing about their favorite decade is that it marked the beginning of their party's steady descent toward oblivion. As OpinionJournal points out:
[T]here's something bizarre about the head of the Democratic Party yearning for a return to the 1960s. After all, 1968 marked the beginning of the Republican ascendancy in American politics. Richard Nixon's narrow victory in that year's presidential election began an impressive 7-for-10 GOP streak, and of course the Republicans eventually broke the Democrats' congressional majority too. For a Democrat to long for a return to the '60s is the equivalent of a Republican looking back wistfully on the glory days of the Hoover administration.
While acknowledging that "we made some mistakes in the '60s," Dean promised to keep making them. Even after referring to the "culture of dependence" bequeathed to us by Lyndon Johnson's catastrophic War on Poverty, Mad Howie proclaimed his devotion to "moral principles" that would entail replacing our healthcare system with socialized medicine and driving up unemployment (and illegal immigration) by raising the minimum wage. The inevitable harmful effects of a minimum wage hike on American workers were dismissed as "economists' mumbo-jumbo."
The morality theme was laid on a little too thick because the forum was a religious conference. At one point he piously announced:
This is a moral nation, and we want it to be a moral nation again.
Dean, who left his church over a tiff about a bike path, even tried to pass himself off as a devout Christian:
I came in the wrong door when I first got here. I came in the back, and everybody was talking about praising the Lord, and I thought, "I am home. Finally, a group of people who want to praise the Lord and help their fellow man just like Jesus did and just like Jesus taught." Thank you so much for doing that for me.
Isn't there anyone at the DNC who can tell the Chairman that even if religious people aren't bright enough to embrace his enlightened flower child ideology, most do know when they're being patronized?
Thank you V the K for the tip.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 28, 2006 9:14 PM
Comments
Howard Dean is the moonbeam of our time. Just when I thought that John Murtha was overtaking Mr. Deaniac as the nuttiest national Democrat, Dean straightens things out and pulls into the lead again. Maybe that cut and run Party should be called the Demonut Party. Just a thought.
Posted by: Denny Rice at June 29, 2006 2:59 AM
"social decay"
Some of this was the aftermath of '60s era programs, e.g. the 'War on Poverty', which in effect provided subsidies for things like having kids out of wedlock. Which is one reason 2/3 or so of black babies today are born out of wedlock.
Posted by: eh at June 29, 2006 5:21 AM
"This is a moral nation, and we want it to be a moral nation again."
That means wiping all traces of Christianity from public space and discourse and replacing it with Marxist-satanic-homosexual laws and practices--OR ELSE?
WTF?
Posted by: Doug at June 29, 2006 12:13 PM
