I keep seeing stories in the mainstream media about the schisms in the GOP. There are very few mentions, however, of the schisms among the Democrats. The reality, however, is that the splits among Democrats are more significant than those among the GOP. Consider these:
In Chicago, there are large protests from African Americans against the city's liberal Democrat establishment. After all, it was Mayor Emanuel who either actively suppressed the video of a young black man being shot 16 times by a policeman or sat by while others suppressed it. That video could easily have derailed Emanuel's run for re-election last year. The Democrat establishment of Chicago took the African American community for granted and the community knows it. Something similar happened in Baltimore where the wholly Democrat establishment in City Hall let a bad situation get totally out of hand. Throw in similar events in other cities run by the Democrats and you get an upwelling of anger against the liberal Democrat establishment in the black community. This may not lead many black voters to switch to the GOP, but it could have many stay home in 2016.
The union members who are supposedly staunchly Democrat, are swinging away from many of the ultra progressive PC positions of the university based liberalism on campus. The campus crew want to release more convicts from prison, for example. That is not a view shared by most of the rest of the Democrats.
Then there is the split over the proper strategy for dealing with ISIS. Hillary Clinton just said that she cannot foresee any situation in which American troops would be sent to Iraq or Syria to fight ISIS. That, of course, is not even the stance taken by president Obama who is now sending more troops to add to the thousands already there. If there were a terror attack here in the USA like the one in Paris (let's pray not), the split between the "no troops ever" Democrats to whom Hillary was pandering and the others would grow dramatically.
There are many other splits among the Democrats. Think of the anti-coal environmental groups and the coal miners in KY and WV.
The point is that for all the demography is destiny nonsense pushed by the left, the Democrat coalition is near the point of breaking up. When it happens, the pundits will tell us how they saw it coming, but for now, they are surely quiet.
In Chicago, there are large protests from African Americans against the city's liberal Democrat establishment. After all, it was Mayor Emanuel who either actively suppressed the video of a young black man being shot 16 times by a policeman or sat by while others suppressed it. That video could easily have derailed Emanuel's run for re-election last year. The Democrat establishment of Chicago took the African American community for granted and the community knows it. Something similar happened in Baltimore where the wholly Democrat establishment in City Hall let a bad situation get totally out of hand. Throw in similar events in other cities run by the Democrats and you get an upwelling of anger against the liberal Democrat establishment in the black community. This may not lead many black voters to switch to the GOP, but it could have many stay home in 2016.
The union members who are supposedly staunchly Democrat, are swinging away from many of the ultra progressive PC positions of the university based liberalism on campus. The campus crew want to release more convicts from prison, for example. That is not a view shared by most of the rest of the Democrats.
Then there is the split over the proper strategy for dealing with ISIS. Hillary Clinton just said that she cannot foresee any situation in which American troops would be sent to Iraq or Syria to fight ISIS. That, of course, is not even the stance taken by president Obama who is now sending more troops to add to the thousands already there. If there were a terror attack here in the USA like the one in Paris (let's pray not), the split between the "no troops ever" Democrats to whom Hillary was pandering and the others would grow dramatically.
There are many other splits among the Democrats. Think of the anti-coal environmental groups and the coal miners in KY and WV.
The point is that for all the demography is destiny nonsense pushed by the left, the Democrat coalition is near the point of breaking up. When it happens, the pundits will tell us how they saw it coming, but for now, they are surely quiet.
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