Soap Box

Describing and dissecting this past election will be an ongoing subject for years to come. I would imagine there would be books written and many hours spent in the world of academia slicing, dicing and constructing a myriad of post mortems, excuses and long, laborious thesis and enough talking head fodder to fill the airways for the foreseeable future.

From what I've heard so far, the nucleus of the Democratic Party has not found the grace, courage, common sense, or whatever frame of mind they must collectively be in to accept even the basic, bedrock truth about what caused their train to come off the tracks.

They blame it on the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee's computers, using the old bait and switch tactics that have served them so well in the past, drawing attention to the hacking instead of the results of the hacking, which cast the executive cadre of the party in a truly bad light, their partiality in Clinton vs. Sanders emphasized and highlighted.

Now I don't put anything past the Russians and I wouldn't trust Vladimir Putin as far as I could throw a Budweiser Clydesdale, but the fact is, if the Democratic National Committee was involved in anti-Sanders shenanigans, and they were, don't the rank and file have a right to know what kind of people were in charge of their party?

Did the Sanders supporters not feel disenfranchised and didn't they have a right to know they were beating their heads against the wall?

Another thing worth mentioning is the arrogant, "better than thou" assessment of Trump's strength with the blue-collar contingency and the actual size of the "basket of deplorables" which pretty much summed the Democratic Party's attitude toward the rust belt folks.

Hillary had already made the statement that she was going to put coal miners out of business and her promised continuance of Obamacare spooked the people who had lost their insurance because of the ACA when they found out that - despite assurances - they couldn�t actually keep their plans or doctors.

Enter James Comey, who admittedly showed up at a most inopportune time, but actually did little but further exonerate Mrs. Clinton and if she was not besmuged by the mess she made in Benghazi little else was going to stick with her supporters anyway.

But, at least in my opinion, and what the Dems seem unwilling to admit, Hillary Clinton is an elitist professional politician who spent her early years in the dusky world of flower child social revolution and activism and has about as much in common with the blue-collar crowd as she does with the offensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

She comes off as cold blooded, untrustworthy, as cordial as a grizzly and approachable as a porcupine. When she does her chameleon act to appeal to whatever social or ethnic group she's trying to impress she comes off as phony.

Mrs. Clinton brings enough baggage with her to take up the South Lawn of the White House, unresolved bits and pieces of skullduggery that goes all the way back to her salad days in Arkansas.

But to me at least there were a lot of reasons why the Democrats lost the White House
but they also didn't gain control of the Senate and lost seats in the House of Representatives, state houses and legislatures.

So, there would seem to be more than the rejection of a presidential candidate going on here, it would seem to be the rejection of a whole political philosophy.

Democrats make the same old tired promises every election cycle, they promise jobs, to clean up crime, to fix our dilapidated infrastructure etc.

Then every election they try to bolster their failing record with bogus statistics and more promises.

I guess America just got tired of waiting and some of those old dependable tectonic plates just shifted.

What do you think?

Pray for the troops, our police and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

p>� Charlie Daniels

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