Project Logic Ga

No..don’t..stop.  In Georgia Democrat politics, we are continuing the same self-destructive, plantation mentality of the last 20 years and are about to experience the same results.  We need to borrow a few plays from the Republican playbook…not the nasty disinformation but the posture toward the people.  If you noticed I didn’t say “voters”…I typed “people” because on the GOP side, the voters and the people are the same because most of them vote in every election while the “people” the Dems help and serve “vote” occasionally.  This must end.

Background: The Democrat Party of Georgia and much of the South lost most statewide elections in the last 10 to 15 years.  We have seen our officeholders drop to record low numbers in the state houses and state constitutional positions as rural Whites bounced for the GOP.  Those White voters broke the awkward alliance of Dixiecrats and the descendants of those oppressed until recently.

Problem: The establishment of the Democrat Party in Georgia consists of the same people from our heyday.  While we appreciate your service, something must change because the state and the nation has fallen into dangerous hands.  The establishment naturally enjoys power and status; their agenda is to keep control of everything.  No, their real agenda is to select candidates with deep pockets or who can raise big bucks.

Those candidates then hire the establishment’s cohorts as fundraisers, campaign managers, etc.  With secondary regard for the actual election results, the E wins by staying paid before one vote is casted.  For sake of full disclosure, I assumed I would be part of the E after returning to the state as a former congressional staffer. In all likelihood, my opinions would be different if the E valued my centrist views.

I feel like that guy Joseph from the Bible who was sold into slavery by his brothers but became pharaoh’s chief adviser.  In the end, he told his brothers that they meant it for evil but God meant it for good.  In this comparison, the GOP would be pharaoh?  Well, it was always my old country club, less nutty Republican friends who discuss policies with moderate Dems.  It’s ashamed that the extremes in their party took over; I know the feeling because the same can be said for the well-intended give, give, give, assist, assist, assist ultra-liberals in our party.

The Establishment or E is again running things from fancy offices in Buckhead and Marietta.  Like the latte-sipping liberals who control the national Democrat Party, they decide first who can produce enough money to keep them in tall cotton then, they craft what is important as issues based (you guessed it) on which interest groups have fat checkbooks.  Actually, the selected candidates are generally good people.  To me, it started with cookie company executive Michael Coles in the Senate race of 1998.

Georgia politically has three sections: Metro Atlanta, the Next Five Cities and Rural Georgia.  I haven’t been in Atlanta in six years—the traffic is too fast for me.  What voters do in rural Georgia should be based on what is important to us and not what the E in Atlanta and D.C. what to “teach” us is vital.

I give Trump credit for listening to his people (many of whom are nutty) and telling them he would do what they wanted if placed in office.  While he is so very wrong on most matters, the Democrats should learn to listen to the people first as Trump did….folks like that.

The Democrat Party of Georgia wants more White voters.  I know you aren’t running anything but you mouth in the South without a certain number of reasonable Whites.  But, I refuse to beg or want the people who said horrible things about the Obamas yet think Trump is great…good riddance.  Our better hope for White voters is suburban moderates and non-voting hip young people.

A national party has variety at the decision-making table…that’s not true of the current Georgia or national GOP.  I appreciate the diversity of the current Dem candidates for statewide office; some are friends and we see the return of a true Blue Dog.  The people will decide during the primary who moves forward…not the Establishment.  What you are not going to do is have the E in the plantation big house tell us in the field (the grassroots) what to do like we are children.