Opinion by:
E. Eugene Webb PhD
I have spent the past week or so following various Democratic party winners and losers in the recent election along with the most seriously left-leaning media outlets in the country as they perform postmortems and autopsies on what went wrong in the recent election.
There are several things that are slowly beginning to emerge.
Kamala Harris was the wrong candidate.
Not only was Kamala Harris the wrong candidate, but she embraced the far left-leaning wing of the Democratic Party.
The Democratic party national, state, and local has been on a rapid race to the left for the past 20 years. But let me tell you an interesting story.
We will call the subject of this story Bob; it is not really his name.
We have been doing a lot of landscaping work around our home for the last six months or so. We needed to move a large pile of dirt and spread it out for a secondary driveway at the rear of our property. I called the fellow who normally does this type of work for us, and he said he was going to be out of town for a couple of weeks, but he gave me Bob's phone number and said, “he was a really good guy, and suggested that I call him.”
Bob called a day or so later and set up a time to come out to our house to look at the work. He arrived on a Thursday with his bobcat in tow and we walked to the back of our property to look at the job. Bob said he could manage that with no problem and then asked, “do you want to just do it now?” And I said, “yes if you have the time let's go ahead and get it done.”
About two hours later Bob had finished the grading work, moved the bobcat back onto the trailer. I walked out to the back of the lot to pay Bob for the work.
Bob is a large man with three teenage boys and so, as I have been doing with a number of people that I have met since the election, I asked Bob, “what did you think of the election?”
“Well,” Bob said, “I have been a Democrat all my life, but I voted for Trump. Before I could ask the obvious question why? Bob, who had been looking at me intently turned his head away and looked back down the street. I paused for a moment, and then he turned back to me, his eyes glistening with tears and he said, “I just do not understand why they want to kill the babies. I just do not understand.”
It was one of those moments where you just did not immediately know what to say or what to ask. Bob looked at me like he thought I might have the answer. I did not.
Bob continued, “there are so many people who cannot have babies that want them, family is important you know. I just cannot understand why they want to kill their babies, and I just could not vote for Harris. Bob went on,” there are so many things in this country that need attention the economy, healthcare, childcare, and the middle class that need to be focused on.” Bob's voice trailed off then he turned and looked down the street again. He turned back wiping his eye and said, “I just hope I didn't make a bad decision.”
I have been at this a while and I rarely get stopped dead in my tracks, but Bob did it.
I thought a lot about what I was going to write following this election regarding who won and why, but mine is just another small voice in a sea of people who have been dissecting the election 24 hours a day 7 days a week since it happened.
But Bob’s voice is a big one, and I suspect that Bob's decision and the reasons for it reflect where the Democratic Party is and what its real problem continues to be.
Several of the left-leaning pundits such as MSNBC and a few, middle level political operatives, in the Democratic Party are beginning to say they need to clean house they need to dump the far-left political wing of the Democratic Party. Democrats must return to representing the working people and the middle class in our society.
The Democratic Party cannot continue for one more minute with Kamala Harris and the people that surround her acting as the Party leadership.
The smart people in the Democratic Party need to take back control, move to the center and dump the fringe of the far left. Let them start their own political party.
There is simply no time to waste. If Democrats do not get busy and get busy quick, they are going to have another disaster two years from now in the midterms and the Democratic Party as we know it may totally disappear.
I did not ask Bob who he voted for down ballot. I was just a little taken back. But what I do know is this. Bob voted Republican for the top of the ticket this time because the Party and Democratic Presidential candidate did not share his views. And if things get even a little bit better from Bob's perspective in the next two years, he is probably more likely to vote Republican again in the midterms.
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