Dear Jilted Fellow Democrats,

I understand your displeasure with the DNC.  I really do.  But allow me a few moments to keep you from leaving your support of the Democratic Party for life in the social justice wilderness.  There is a theory that the DNC and the RNC are more alike than they are different, and I agree with that analysis.  But the reason that they are more similar than they are different is that they are both products of our culture rather than our culture being produced by them.  Hoping for them to be fundamentally different is like trying to milk a chicken or get eggs from a goat.  It is not going to happen.  There are many reasons, and here are a few.

For starters, they both come from a society which has a superstitious view of faith.  Americans allow ancient religious practices to contaminate their rational processes.  Among those rational processes contaminated with ancient superstition is government, and the pursuit of social justice.  These things have no use for superstition or religion, however you prefer to refer to it.  Government and social justice are entirely dependent upon facts, engineering, logistics, and justice.  Witchcraft never built a road.  A crucifix never immunized a town.  A dime with “In God We Trust” never turned itself into a quarter.  Religion, and even superstition, if you take the position that they are different, are fine things, as long as they do not supplant the value of facts and the scientific process.

This is important because building and maintaining a society is many things, and all of them are weight, measure, and reasoning processes.  Anything that asks you to turn away from reason in order to do the right thing is asking you to do the wrong thing, when it comes to social justice.  Our religion/superstition ask many, maybe most, to turn away from civil liberties for GLBT citizens.  They would have you believe that there is something unseen and mysterious which will bestow goodness and stability on you as a result of rejecting a significant portion of your community, every community.  This is false, and in defiance of all things real and measurable.  This particular act of systematic denial of civil liberties is for the purpose of making a constituency which will hold together, and minimize the access to that which freedom and talent might ordinarily determine.  

This very same process is done with all groups that can be artificially created, maintained, and motivated to deprive another group.  This process is done with various ethnicities.  Assimilate to certain arbitrary aspects of culture, or be denied.  This is done with other religions.  This is done between the genders, in which case assimilation requires for women, who outnumber men, to buy into their misogynistic subjugation in various ways, and abdicate their political power of superior numbers.  And this process is done with sexual identity.  

In 2004, when war against gay civil liberties was waged as a wedge to motivate a coalition of conservatives to defeat John Kerry, I recall one of the rallying points was that marriage of gays would cause a drop in the population.  The point is almost too stupid to be believed, but the purpose for the assault on reason with this bit of nonsense is the point.  Actual facts of nature stood in the way of the emotional lever that this issue sought to use to hold its coalition together.  It was necessary for a majority of voters to “believe” a falsehood rather than rely on the fact, and the reasonable approach to the fact, with which lies the social just result.  In other words, the natural capacity of humans to think and reason must be subverted, and supplanted to produce the unnatural, unreasonable result of denying liberty to free members of a free society.

The DNC has failed us in this particular way.  We are too afflicted with superstition and unreason, which begat ignorance, which begat hate, which begat social instability.  Outside of those who would seek social justice by progressive means, but are afflicted with the viral ignorance of superstition, would be the minority wasteland of marginalization, and defeat.  The act of leaving stupid progressives for a smaller group within a system that is propelled by power is a dead end.  The options are to take over the entire system by revolution, which is not possible, or to re-educate and reconstruct the progressive apparatus.  The solution is to immunize the reasoning element from the insidious, virulent contamination of the unreason which comes from those who place belief over facts.  

Defaulting to a lower order of social conscience which says fiscal conservatism is the highest ethical standard is not the answer for anyone who is not organically sprung from the largest demographic.  Ups and downs occur in the course of human events, and when those downs occur, the dominant culture will come looking to you to excise as a devotional act to the god of fiscal conservatism.  It has always been thus.  Thus it will always be unless and until facts and reasonable processes are placed permanently above superstition.  

So to all of my disaffected progressives who seek to leave the Democratic party, I implore you to do the reasonable thing.  The G.O.P. has nothing but tax cuts and a possible burning at the stake for you.  There are no rest stops between the camp of imperfect progressives and whatever you think is out there among the believing, superstitious non thinkers.  Social justice exists within reason and the reasonable.  Stay and reason with us.  All superstition dies eventually.  Even Sarah Palin can see that the world is not flat.  Several hundred years ago, she would surely have said otherwise.