We hear a lot of this sort of thing about the Republican Party — that we’re simply “running out of white people” to get to vote for us, and that the Hispanicization of the US will spell doom for the GOP, at least as we know it.
Richard Miniter says it’s the left that’s doomed. Not due to demographics per se, but due to having run out of the government money it needs to bribe all the members of its coalition to vote Democrat.
The long-term trends are almost all bad news for the left wing of the party.This week’s fight over raising the federal debt limit exposes a key weakness in the warfare-welfare state that has bestowed power onto the Democratic Party: Without an ever-growing share of the economy, it dies. Every vital element of the Democrats’ coalition — unions, government workers, government contractors, “entitlement” consumers — requires constant increases in payments, grants and consulting contracts. Without those payments, they don’t sign checks to re-elect Democrats.
Like it or not, Obama is not the new FDR, but the new Gorbachev: a man forced to preside over the demise of a political system he desperately wants to save.
Democrat champions in the punditocracy confidently predict that the future of the world’s oldest political party is bright. But in fact, the coalition that is the modern Democratic Party is doomed. Every pillar upholding its heavy roof is crumbling.
The Democratic and Republican parties are structurally different.
The Democrats are a coalition, forged in the New Deal, of diverse interests that do not get along well. Imagine the deer-hunting union member sitting down with the vegetarian college professor and the lesbian lawyer and you will begin to see the trouble party leaders have holding the horde together. So far, money and government preferences have been essential. It is largely a party of unions, government workers and retirees, “green” industries, “entitlement” payees, professors, teachers and social-change activists — all of whom require government payments in one form or another.
Apart from the high-income Cultural Liberals, Miniter notes, every single other segment of the coalition depends on government largess. What happens when the tap runs dry?
That is, of course, why Obama is so desperate to raise taxes; he can’t give people free money if he’s not taking it from somewhere else. Not with government debt already at the tipping-point level of 90% of GDP.
This can’t happen soon enough! POTUS Obama and his minions are close to toast!
Good stuff sir, linked at RR today:
Obama Already DOOMED:
Another Record Low for this Despicable Regime…