Welcome to the Dark Side
Regular Readers of my columns know that I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Many think I am a Libertarian and there is much that I share with the Libertarian view but I do not identify with them either.
I am old enough that I can say I was a Kennedy Democrat though in truth I don’t think John F. Kennedy would recognize the Democratic Party of today.
Later I became disenchanted with the Democratic Party and became a Reagan Republican for a number of years.
Still later I became disappointed with the spinelessness of most of the Republican Party and became “not affiliated” with any party.
Both Political Parties have their share of a small number of “good” people who sincerely want what is best (in their minds) for the country and a much larger number who only seek power, wealth and some form of immortality in the footnotes of history.
I have many good friends in both parties that I respect and like even though we may strongly disagree on important issues. This article is not about them.
Within the Republican Party there are many whom I consider politically and morally “Bi-Polar” in that they can’t adhere to their supposed value system if it will make them unpopular with the media or interferes with their personal goals of wealth and power.
Within the Democratic Party there has come to be a more sinister element that seems to have wedded itself to the “Dark Side of the Force” with an agenda of destruction of what this country was originally founded on.
If one looks at any of the Red/Blue Political Maps of the country it seems apparent that the so-called “Red” zones are in area much larger, more sparsely populated with those parts of the country in general more responsibly governed fiscally and contributing a greater share in productivity of goods and services producing a solid foundation of taxes. For purposes of this essay I will call them “Tax Cows”.
The “Blue” zones are much more focused in large urban areas. Many, many of these corrupt, inefficient, large, densely populated urban areas are run by so called “Liberal” politicians and have become infested with consumers of what the “Tax Cows” produce. Often they are overly populated by “non-producers”, either receivers of government handouts or overpaid bureaucrats whose main job is doling out other peoples tax money to non-productive citizens, by which I mean those who could, but do not work at something productive. Sometimes referred to as those who feed at the government trough.
This “Dark Side” of the so-called Democratic Party has one agenda. That is to “milk” the “Tax Cows” and ship that “Tax Milk” from the more sparsely voter populated countryside where it is produced to more heavily voter populated non productive inner cities where much of the Tax Dollars are wasted on sound good, feel good programs that only make the citizens more addicted to the public dole and less able to care for themselves. The receivers of this “free money” largess seem to believe the lie that the Democratic Party is somehow the “Mama Milk Tax Cow” and vote for the Democrats in misguided loyalty. If one tries to point out that the tax dollars are not producing the desired result, one is labeled as “not caring”, “heartless” or any number of other punitive adjectives and told that “we” just have not spent enough but with ever more “Tax Milk” it will all work out. This is how a city like Seattle can spend a “Billion Tax Milk Dollars” on homelessness and only make the problem worse.
At some point this “Tax Milk” transfer produces social collapse with collateral crime, drugs and hopelessness. The city lies in ruins with lots of finger pointing and no solutions. Whatever few producers/tax payers are left that have the ability to leave “Beat feet for the tall grass” and look for peace, order and fiscal discipline elsewhere. As an example this is why California and New York are hemorrhaging citizens relocating to states like Florida and Texas. The city then ends up with increasing filth and debris as well as sickness and death. If you doubt me, visit some of the cities this is happening to right now. New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Baltimore etc. etc. etc.
Those in charge on the “Dark Side” don’t really care because they are part of the ruling class and protected from the chaos and misery they have helped create.
George Soros and other American haters win and you end up with a “Banana Republic” led by corruption, lies, waste and greed.
Sad to say, the warnings of many of our nations founders seem to have gone unheeded and are coming to pass.
Bob Bandy – January 2021
