Zombies

For more than a decade we watched right wing zealot Zombies in the Republican Party eat its flesh, bore from within until – until the only result could have been Trump, until it became the thing it has become.

Now we see the “progressive” lumpen left proles of the Democratic Party gorging and gorged bloodily on their coveted cable television interviews as they turn a governing majority into a century-long failure.

Democracy cannot suvive zealots. Democracy lives at the center and Democrats lately have moved the center but still, that is not enough for its Zombie zealots who do not understand and do not care that democracy dies at the far extremes.

If the House “progressives” want to force Sinema and Mancin to choose sides and move toward the President then they need to get both bills passed now, right now. Passage of both will give the President and Schumer the leverage they need to press Sinema and Manchin.

Anyone with the least understanding of politics knows that.

To get something, you need something else. Right now the president and the speaker and the majority leader have almost nothing when they try to get the two recalcitrant senators to yield something.

But if they can hold two House-passed bill over the heads of the senators from Arizona and West Virginia they’ll deal. They’ll have to deal. Especially Sinema because she has to know if she does not she will get a primary and she will lose it. Before she can run parse the center in Arizona she has to give her state party what it wants and expects from a Democrat: Or Arizona Democrats and tens of thousands more around the country will take her out.

Manchin? He’s another deal. He’s from woebegotten West Virginia. He understands the place and knows how far he can go and yet keep the chance of going back to the Senate, where he knows Schumer has to suffer a lot of his being Joe Manchin to get his vote to maintain the majority.

But even Mancin can still go a long way if he has to but; but he just does not have to as long as there is no leverage against and over him. As long as his progressive party fellows do the lifting for him. If they won’t suport the president and the legislation, well then why should he? Why should he risk walking the plank in West Virginia?

Without two House-passed bills there isn’t and won’t be any leverage to use with Maching. Without the House passing both post-haste it is not his fault, it is the fault of the House “progressives.”

But House Democrats are being consumed by the disease of extremism and they will take the nation and its future with them unless – unless Ms. Pelosi, perhaps the greatest speaker in the history of the House, can save us from them and them from themselves and from the wrath of Democrats later.

I believe she will succeed this one last time. If she does not, it will not matter for another 30 years.

And I, like so many I know, will be long dead.

But my grandchildren, and yours, will be left to live in the rubble that AOC and the rest of her buddies will dance on, being interviewed on cable TV, which clearly is more important to them than getting this done.

They are far, far, far worse and far, far, far a danger to the future of the United States than Trump and his looney legions.

Those people are ignorant, stupid and failed. The Democratic progressives?

They are willfully arrogant and bent on political and governmental self-destruction because – because they do not understand politics because they come from places where they do not need to learn to understand it, because they have no sense of responsibility and – and because they would rather be on TV than actually get done what they holler about must be done.

After all, if you get it done, cable hosts don’t really need you anymore. Do they? No, they don’t.

And then – then you are a political Zombie.