Chapter 1. Shrubsville

A pack of sleep dogs stretch and yawn lazily under a stand of tower Oak trees as the little commute train steams out of the Shrubsville station. Spring is here. The beauty Magnolias and Azaleas are just beginning to bloom. The passengers look out of the dirt windows as clouds of brick-red dust blow across the fresh-plow fields. Red Gibson, the engineer, peers out from under the bill of his stripe cap as the train moves slowly down the wind track in the direction of Shooterville. Red is a very tradition man. He remembers the glory days of the Republic Party—the Ronald Reagan days and the Contract-With-America days— when the Democrat Party knew its place in the scheme of things. “We’ve come a long ways from Doleton and Gingrichburg,” he says to his crust old brakeman. “Imagine the gall of this new Democrat Majority—thinking they have the right to question the Decider on matters of nation security.”  Read more 

While arguing with Dan Riehl over the use of the infamous “Democrat Party” slur, I was struggling to think of a group that finds itself in a similar situation. And then I realized it had been staring me in the face all along! So I created a handy resource for whenever you see that phrase pop up on the intertubes:

http://democratparty.blogspot.com/

As a thought experiment, let’s say you lived next door to a Jewish day care center and you were bothered by it, not because you are anti-semitic, but because it’s noisy and smells bad. Would you go around saying things like “I’m really getting sick of this Jew day care center”?

Why or why not?  Read more