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January 7, 2007
The Invasion of the Alpha Male Democrat
I'm immediately suspicious of any article written by an America hater from the The New Republic writing anything about the Democratic party. They desperately want to create a vision of defeat for the Democrats and they will bend anything they can find in a frantic attempt to make the world they dream it to be. There has been a rise of Alpha Males in the Democratic party. Amusingly I'm one of them and I can tell you for a fact that puts none of the party's agenda in danger.
There is a fundamental difference between the Alpha males of the Democratic party and those of the Republican party. Nearly all Republican alpha's are RWA's, specifically double highs, which I've covered in depth before, so I'm not going to be labor the point again. Democratic Alpha's are actually the polar opposite. They have an internal strength that draws support to them, they don't have to oppress people to be powerful. They lack the fundamental selfishness that defines a Republican Alpha. In a word the Democratic party is having a natural backlash against the groveling politician types that have led us time and time again to defeat. While Rahm may see this as an opportunity to expand his ranks with sell outs and backstabbers like himself, he will realize his error way too late to save himself. These people are something more than just politicians, they are truly leaders and they are just as likely to snap the neck off a snake like Rahm as they are to let him do real harm to America. It's one thing to get elected as a politician, it's another thing for these kinds of men to take an oath to protect their country from all threats foreign and domestic. Trust me, Establishment Democrats are in for a shocker when they try to go back to their old ways.
And despite the desperate effort by the right wing author, this puts women in no danger or their agendas either, because of the fundamental difference between the Alpha types. Female politicians start out with a credibility gap for some reason in the minds of independent voters. In the South it's massive and everywhere else it's relatively small, but a few percentage point hole is hard to make up in the hyper-partisan environment created by the Republicans these days. I have a feeling after the 2008 season that women will regain any of the ground they've lost and start making gains toward their natural spot in power. In the meantime, I don't think that their issues will go unnoticed and ignored in a Democratic congress, unlike in a Republican one. With Nancy in the House and Barbara in the Senate, the Democrats have got women's back and they will have happy support from the "Alpha" males of the party.
Read more over at The New York Times.
Posted by Jamison at January 7, 2007 10:49 PM
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