Outside the asylum
It was both tragic and metaphorically apropos. Only five days after the Democratic Party committed electoral suicide by casting stones at military veterans and embracing the attempt of various government officials to cram the homosexual parody of matrimony down the throats of an unwilling America, one of its members literally followed suit.
Andrew Veal's death was a dash of cold water in the face of political observers around the world, who have grown accustomed to taking the nonsensical hysteria of the Democrats' public relations with a boulder-sized grain of salt. But it is not so easy for the weak, sick and mentally feeble on whom the Democratic party is reliant to do the same - they simply do not have the facility to understand that the cartoonish hyperbole in which the Democratic Underground, MOVE-ON, ACT-UP and the New York Times so often engage is nothing more than propagandistic exercises in political showmanship.
If you truly believe that Bush is Hitler and that his re-election marks the final step into a new Dark Age run by Christian theocrats intent on establishing the American Inquisition, then perhaps suicide is a reasonable solution. True, you'd have to be an idiot to believe that, but then, the Democratic Party is filled with those that the Penguin Dictionary of Psychology defines as being "borderline deficient."
The Democrats' claims to being the party of the more intelligent have been reliably fraudulent, so it should come as no surprise that the national exit polls from the recent election indicate precisely the opposite. The correlation between intelligence and income is widely recognized, so the fact that John Kerry's support was strongest - 63 percent - among those earning under $15,000 should give even the most left-inclined Mensan pause.
In fact, as incomes rose, support for Kerry reliably declined, reaching its nadir at 35 percent of the $200,000-plus crowd. And speaking of nadirs, Ralph's 1 percent only began to make an appearance over $100,000, providing support for the theory that if you maleducate an intelligent person over an extended period of time, you can turn them into a high-functioning political simulacrum of an idiot.
John Kerry also had the edge among those who did not complete high school, and, further sustaining the maleducation theory, did not regain the upper hand until the postgraduate crowd was surveyed. George Bush, on the other hand, won among high-school, partial-college and college grads.
Unions these days largely consist of state and federal government employees - union households went heavily for the Democrat, 59 percent to 40 percent. Your mileage may vary, but I, for one, have yet to encounter a government employee that I would consider to be on the north side of the median. Sure, it's possible that the blank stares one so often encounters at the drivers license bureau and similar offices mask minds too busy contemplating last night's Proust reading to summon any interest in the quotidian banalities that surround them at work, but Occam's razor suggests this is an unlikely explanation.
The reality is that the modern Democratic Party can be broadly divided into four basic groups. The maleducated utopians (academics, students and media), the stone cold killers (feminists and global socialists), the cannon fodder (the mentally sub-par dependent class) and the deranged window dressing (the lavender lobby and the eco-freaks). This is a ragtag collection more suited for an asylum than the halls of power, if only to protect them from themselves.
So, forget the division into the United States of Canada and Jesustan that some bloggers have proposed - all this nation truly needs is a Wonko the Sane to erect signs indicating to bewildered Democrats that they have inadvertently wandered into that strange land Outside The Asylum, where people believe in strange things such as God, moral values, personal responsibility and a literal Constitution.