The Democratic Party has long been the champion of the working man, the single-parent family, the poor and disenfranchised. The Democratic Party has held power in Congress for the better part of 60 years over the last 75 years. In the 1930s and 1960s, Democrats controlled Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court at the same time. In sharp contrast, the Republican Party controlled Congress for roughly 14 years over the last 75 years. A Republican president, a Republican-controlled Congress and Supreme Court hasn’t been possible in more than 100 years. Some will point to the years during the George W. Bush administration where Republicans nominally held power in both houses of Congress. However, the May, 2001 defection of Republican Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont effectively gave Democrats control of the Senate until 2004. They were able to stall everything from Cabinet appointments to Social Security privatization until voted out in 2004, only to be voted back in during the 2006 elections. In short, the Democrats have held power most of the time. During the 1930s and 1960s, they were literally able to do as they pleased.

During those two periods, Democrats created legislation, programs and policy whose negative effects are still felt today. Over the course of the last 75 years, this ‘party of the working man’, this fierce protector of womens’ and civil rights has helped precisely, exactly, no one. The track record isn’t just dismal, it’s downright frightening. The New Deal, the New New Deal, the Square Deal, the War on Poverty, the Great Society, and dozens more socialist-inspired, big-government projects have burned trillions of dollars only to create more poverty, more unemployment, more crime, more drug abuse, more single-parent homes, more underachieving students, more government, more regulation and more economic disparity. The Democrats have ruined everything they’ve touched. And yet, they are poised to yet again take total control of the government in 2009. This could go a long way toward explaining the volatility of stock and bond markets as election day neared.

The working poor, the impoverished and the lower middle class have been promised manna from heaven by the Anointed One. They are oblivious to the fact that they are merely pawns in a power struggle. They will not benefit from a Democrat controlled government. In fact, if history provides precedent, they will suffer even more. The beneficiaries of the new regime will be government employees,  unions (but not union members), trial attorneys, political pressure groups and insiders, moneylenders, government dependents and contractors. Those who suffer will be cynically used as a bloody shirt by the Democrats to retain power, to demand even more sacrifices from the remaining taxpayers and to justify whatever tactics are necessary to suppress dissent. If all this sounds a bit unsettling, you’d better get used to it. This is the dark and dreary utopia that Democrats have in mind for us.

The Democratic Party has every intention of controlling not only the levers of power in government, but the control knobs of the economy. They intend to ‘plan’ the economy and ‘plan’ growth. Does this sound familiar? If not, look up Lenin and Mao on the Wikipedia site. Also, note that both of these gentlemen found it necessary to starve, kill and/or imprison anyone who disagreed with them. Will Obama and the Democrats do the same?

Obama has made no secret of his wealth distribution jihad. And, the paralells to Karl Marx just keep piling up. He has promised to right all wrongs, take from the rich and give to the poor. This, of course, has the effect of a feeding frenzy. The parasites, sensing a payday, are already rejoicing. But that celebration may be premature and probably short-lived. That’s because the masses voting for Obama’s redistribution plan aren’t the ones to benefit from it. The payoff will be enormous for trial lawyers, lobbyists, Hollywood types, and other moneyed members of the liberal elite. The average working stiff will instead get stuck with the bill, or at the very least, won’t get much in return for his/her vote.

Obama and Biden will institute a statist form of socialism that effectively closes off opportunity and upward mobility for those who haven’t already clawed their way to an elite status. They’ll do this with crippling taxes, mountains of red tape and invasive social engineering. Outside of American Idol, the doors to personal achievement and true wealth-building will be closed. In other words, America will now resemble the rest of the world. For all their class warfare demagoguery, it’s the Democrats who want to formalize and freeze class distinctions. It keeps them in power for as long as they can fool the working and middle classes into believing they are the party of the common man. That was a lie way back in FDR’s day, as much as it is today. And once Democrats control the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court, they will pass laws and regulations to make sure they’ll never be voted out. Our most fundamental right will have been taken away.

This is not idle speculation. The Mackinaw Center discovered such a plot in Michigan, where Democratic legislators, lobbyists and various ‘grass roots’ groups were attempting to create legislation and policy that would have guaranteed Democrats total control of state government with no accountability and no public recourse. They could not be voted out of office. By the way, this went unreported in the state’s largest newspapers and TV stations. A few radio talk show hosts were the only ones to mention this overt abridgement of voting rights and representative government. Michigan Republicans were able to muster a creaky, tepid response that put the measure on hold. To Democrats, this was only a temporary setback. They lie in wait. One wonders how many other states have similar measures in play.

If the unthinkable should happen — somehow, against all odds, John McCain wins the presidential race – the Democrats would have suffered only a tiny, temporary setback. In 2012, there is another race for the White House and another 20 million new voters. These new voters will be predominantly Democratic by party affiliation and fully indoctrinated in the ‘benefits’ of a socialist economic and governmental system. In fact, the job of the Democrats will just get easier and easier as the years go by. Time is on their side. As the WWII generation disappears and Baby Boomers start to drop off in increasing numbers, what’s left of a conservative base will dwindle to an embattled, tattered minority in Generations X and Y.  On the horizon, the high school class of 2012 promises to be fully versed in socialist dogma. They will be ready, willing and able to carry out whatever is demanded of them by their leaders. America as we know it could be gone.

The rest of the world will delight in this. As anxious as they are for Americans to save them when calamity strikes, the world is eager to see this country and its people taken down a notch or two. Little do they realize that America is the glue that binds the modern world. With America in steep decline, the ‘global’ economy and ‘global’ society quickly becomes a ’local’ economy and society. It’s American technology and investment that keep the world’s telecommunications, IT, commerce, capital markets and even oil production going. A socialist government would kill personal incentive and entrepreneurship. The flow of ideas, capital and personal effort would dry up.

Parasites, their champions and enablers, don’t seem to grasp this, or don’t want to know. If the rewards for hard work and personal achievement are taken away, no one will risk their time or effort just to enrich the government or its dependents. There would be no point. The economy would shrivel along with economic opportunity. This isn’t something that Democratic politicians, academia or mainstream media want Americans to know and understand. They’re serving their own ends with lies, fake science and demagoguery to mask this unpleasant truth.

It’s up to conservatives, Republican or otherwise, to make the succeeding generations understand what’s in store for them if the socialists prevail. It won’t just mean higher taxes or nationalized health care. That’s only the beginning. The government and the regulation of peoples’ lives with grow explosively. For example, in the 12 years that England’s socialist Labor Party has been in power, Parliament passed more the 1,000 ‘laws’ that allowed their government to enter any one’s home without a search warrant or even a knock at the door. The “Exotic Plant Specie Inspection Act” allow police to storm into any British citizen’s home at any time of day or night to ‘inspect’ all the homeowners’ indoor plants and confiscate unlicensed tropical orchids. Yes, in merry old England, you must pay a special tax to grow orchids in your own home. Once a country falls into socialism, the government runs wild. And, once socialism is installed, it can’t be voted out, because the government owns too much of the economy. It’s almost impossible to pry politicians and bureaucrats away from the levers of power once they’ve tasted absolute power.

Before conservatives Boomers hang up their spurs and ride off into the sunset, they are duty-bound to make amends for their liberal brethren. The Baby Boomers created the mess we’re in. They bought into the intellectual fraud perpetrated at colleges across the country in the 1960s and early 1970s. They accepted situational ethics and moral ambiguity as their behavioral standard. Bill Clinton is their role model. And they are unrepentant or too brain-damaged to know or care about the destruction they’ve visited on this country.

It will fall to the few to make good on the sins of the many. To save this country, to pass it on to future generations in the form that it was founded, conservative Boomers must involve themselves in passing on the ideals and values that made this country the wonder of the world. It can’t be phoned in. Boomers need to engage in the political process, get involved in local politics, agitate for conservative values and demand that their system of beliefs is restored to society, government and commerce. It wasn’t socialism or communism that made this country great. It was personal freedom, capitalism, free markets and a free society. Was it perfect? No, nothing is. But it’s a quantum leap beyond anything else out there, including the false religion of socialism. It’s an inescapable fact that socialist regimes have all been failures. All of them. And Boomers are compelled to make each succeeding generation to fully understand that before they leave the world stage.

America’s parasites are welcoming the presumed ascendancy of Barack Obama to the highest office in the land. He’s made promises up and down the socio-economic ladder to just about anyone he thinks will be able to cast a vote, legally or illegally. There will be more pork, says Obama. There will be more handouts, says Obama. There will be more welfare of every form, says Obama. And he’s not hiding the fact that there will be more taxes to pay for it all. But, that tax will be paid only by the richest in the land, who couldn’t possibly have made that money by their own effort, comittment and risk. It was wealth accumulated by some nefarious, unknown means that in all fairness must be distributed to all. So says Obama. And when elected, he and his Democratic henchmen will put this country through a wrenching, hellish transformation.

Obama, the one we’ve all been waiting for, knows nothing of wealth creation and what makes this country so very different from the rest of the world. And if he does, he doesn’t care. Like Lenin and the Bolsheviks, Obama, Pelosi and Reid will experiment with the economy, the political process, the role of government and the structure of society. We will be the guinea pigs, as will our children and their children. They will solidify their power so that the Democratic party can never be voted out of office and government can grow exponentially. This, they have solemnly promised America. They don’t have to hide their agenda anymore. The parasites, who outnumber the producers, focused on the promises of easy money and government handouts, cheerfully giving up their economic freedoms.

The transition into socialism will be subtle. The transformation into a socialist state, with its ruling elite, party apparatchicks and clueless masses will not. When millions of middle class Americans are jobless, homeless and hopeless as Obama twists the knobs and fiddles with our fates, it will be too late to point out that the Democrats made their intentions very clear. And even the parasites will suffer. Because they’re no longer needed to vote, apply political pressure or write big campaign checks. They’ll be cast aside and told to fend for themselves — a bitter harvest to be sure.