The Brutal Truth
Author — and registered, voting Democrat — Orson Scott Card writes in today’s OpinionJournal:
Am I saying that critics of the war aren’t patriotic?
Not at all–I’m a critic of some aspects of the war. What I’m saying is that those who try to paint the bleakest, most anti-American, and most anti-Bush picture of the war, whose purpose is not criticism but deception in order to gain temporary political advantage, those people are indeed not patriotic. They have placed their own or their party’s political gain ahead of the national struggle to destroy the power base of the terrorists who attacked Americans abroad and on American soil.
Patriots place their loyalty to their country in time of war ahead of their personal and party ambitions. And they can wrap themselves in the flag and say they “support our troops” all they like–but it doesn’t change the fact that their program is to promote our defeat at the hands of our enemies for their temporary political advantage.
Think what it will mean if we elect a Democratic candidate who has committed himself to an antiwar posture in order to get his party’s nomination.
Our enemies will be certain that they are winning the war on the battleground that matters–American public opinion. So they will continue to kill Americans wherever and whenever they can, because it works.
I’ve said here time and again that this country can’t survive without two, strong political parties. But then I read things like this and wonder if that’s true, so long as one of the two parties is today’s national Democrats.
Have I read this correctly?
You support a single party system in the US as long as it’s the Democrat party as described by Orson Scott Card?
I wish I liked Card’s fiction as much as I do his commentary. The guy has been spot on.
At least ONE democrat gets it! HEY! MAybe other principled, PATRIOTIC demos will take heed and start taking the unprincipled, unpatriotic ones to task for their putting party and personal gain ahead of the country that makes their lives of plenty possible.
This former registered member of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor party gets it.
I will not be voting democratic in 2004. There are many who are just like me, too.
I’m amused by the number of people (not in this post) who have decried Card, emphasizing that “he’s not REALLY a Democrat.”
Huh.
So, McDermott, he’s not really representative of the Dems.
Card, HE’s not really representative of the Dems, either.
Zell Miller? He’s not really a Dem.
Barbara Lee or Cynthia McKinney? Not really representative of Dems, either.
More and more, I’m curious just who IS representative of the Dems, what the Dems DO believe, and who embodies that.