Adam Clymer wrote last weekend in his integrity-starved New York Times about the Democratic Party, which "finds itself in a desperate effort to rebuild and to avoid permanent minority status."  Given the recent revelations about reporting in that Manhattan rag, this is very possibly the only verified news to be found among its pages.  Reading the 2500-word Clymer manifesto yields little else in the way of valid analysis.  Instead, it represents another denial -- humorous, almost, as the one recently putting the NYT's plagiarist Jayson Blair out of work and into the headlines. 

There is a clear crisis among the opposition party in Washington.   But causes for it are not to be found anywhere in the NY Times.  Projecting themselves as the only barrier to one-party rule in America, Democrats under their Chairman, Terry McAuliffe, are fast approaching that point where Americans would rather just give monopoly to the GOP.   Democratic failures in 2002's midterm election, along with continued popular support for George W. Bush, are acute symptoms of a disease in the American political establishment.

Clymer (also known as "big-time") describes that process by which the Republicans rebuilt after Watergate, and how Democrats must undergo a similar death and resurrection.  This is wishful thinking.  People in the United States understand that educratic simpletons, racialists who hide their bigotry under the false banner of "diversity", man-hating radical feminists, eco-terrorists, socialists, and militant gays don't make good leaders.  Yet these are the foundation for Democrats' base of support. 

Just who this vociferous minority of power-junkies infecting grass roots of Democratic organizations represents is clear, nobody.  An irony here is that the party whose name purports democracy has been co-opted by a handful of Alinskyites.  After three decades, the infestation of that party has been cultivated for so long it is now fatal, unless an amputation is administered soon. 

But even if such dismemberment occurs, there can not be any guarantee of survival.  For example, imagine if Al Sharpton bolts the Democratic Party and makes a third party run.  Sure, he'll take some extremists with him.  But even with his racialists gone, there will still be enough loonies motivated by unique and diverse dysfunction to pollute the remaining body of Democratic Party structure.  The cancer, it seems, is inoperable.

So what is to become of our two party system?  Are we simply going to let the GOP take charge and become its own version of statist one-party systems we've fought in the last 85 years?  God forbid it.  Republicans have some heartfelt ideas.  But many of them are wrong and they reveal the need for solid opposition, not the folly of Democrats we've seen in years past. 

As the GOP expands the Department of Education, a party needs to stand for its divestiture to the States.  Compromises for abortion by the GOP require uncompromising support for the unborn.  Free trade agreements demand that someone speak up for protecting our markets.  Open borders profess the need for representation to those who oppose unbridled and illegal immigration.  The list of issues, for which there is no true alternative representation to that of the Republicans, is long.

It is time to replace the Democratic Party.  Being among Constitutionalists, this writer believes the best alternative is not laid upon the nonsense of crackpots.  While we were suffering Democrats, more than a decade passed since founding of the taxpayer's advocate.   It is home to solid candidates, real leadership, and the right plan for our Republic that her founders envisioned two and a quarter centuries ago.  None can honestly protest, or say the nation would not be better off, if our Constitution becomes the true alternative to the GOP.

Dave Franklin is a writer for the American Reformation Project and USA Daily . He works in telecommunications and has over ten years of experience as a technology consultant for government agencies, including the Department of State and the Joint Staff. He is a regular columnist for Ether Zone.

Dave Franklin can be reached at:dfrankli@patriot.net

Published in the May 29, 2003 issue of  Ether Zone.
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