It is a confederation of selfish special interest groups, most of which get their money and power by extracting it from the pockets of taxpayers. The Democratic Party's mode of politics is to play divide and conquer, to wage continuous class, race, and gender war as the way to mobilize its disparate rag-tag troops. The Democrats are the party of plunder, of loot, of a never-ending organized motorcycle gang that sustains itself parasitically by stealing from the productive people it raids and robs. But as Jacob Bronowski observed in his book The Ascent of Man , this primitive society of the marauding tribe that lives by stealing from others is doomed to extinction. Even the semi-settled mode of socialism in which you and I are enslaved like sheep to be milked and sheared so a ruling class of government retainers can live parasitically from our labor in which we are put into tax bondage and our backs broken to build pyramids to the eternal glory of Hillary and Bill Clinton can no longer be sustained.
People are no longer content to be slaves.
They at least want personal lifestyle freedom and not to be treated like tax slaves. That is why 70 percent of Americans in the latest Rasmussen Poll say they want a tax cut, not more government programs. That is why a similar percentage want an end to the confiscatory death tax that steals more than half the life savings of people from their children. That is why Bush's call to begin privatizing Social Security has widespread public support. Gore must galvanize his selfish Demosaurs and Dinocrats, with their primitive and selfish view of governance.