Going, Going Gone...

Article CAIRCO note: 
Democrats are too crazy to lead this country, and Americans know it
Article author: 
James Howard Kunstler
Article date: 
9 August 2025
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
Article Body: 
Because they can no longer distinguish between fantasy and reality, they are too crazy to lead this country, and Americans know it.
- Sasha Stone on the Democratic Party

In case you’re wondering why the Democratic Party is in a death spiral, it is the proportionate response to the damage they have done to American culture and politics... their turn to Marxian idealism was a cover for a matrix of hustles and rackets to make up for a void of any sane political program...

By 2016, that was really all that the Democratic Party had left...

... the civil rights campaign eventually produced a larger and more intractable “underclass” than existed before. This baffled liberal idealists.. They could only account for it by “structural racism,” and the Marxian trope of “oppressors-and-victims” fit into that scaffold perfectly...

One way to counter “structural racism” was to declare a new ethos of “multiculturalism,” meaning each ethnic or racial group could behave according to its own particular standards and values...

The MAGA movement has largely been an effort to reconstruct an American common culture, a consensus of values and behaviors we can all agree on. The Democratic Party opted to oppose that - a poor choice...

Now, the money flow is gone and so is the party’s power and perhaps its last remaining reason for existence: the maintenance of its own power...

Related

Why Conservatives Should Reconsider Their Critique of DEI