The Democrats Need To Get Back To Their Future

Representative Nydia Valazquez, of New York's 12th District (Brooklyn, in other words), addressed the Democratic Convention in her capacity as Chairman of the House Small Businesses Committee. Good luck to anyone who could understand a word of her broken English. Clearly, she has extremely little cause to speak it in the absence of the television cameras.

Thank God that she was followed by Senator Bob Casey, son and namesake of the legendary former Governor of Pennsylvania. If the Democrats was still all like him and his father - pro-life and pro-family, or at least tolerant and respectful of those who are (Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have all been in their day, and deep down probably still are); passionately and actively concerned for bread and butter politics rather than upper-middle-class lifestyle issues; and fully understanding of the fact that unity of language is indispensable, not least if the English-speaking working class (black and white) is not to be kept down for ever by the bilingual or multilingual oligarchy - then they would never be out of office, and America would be fighting a successful war against want, idleness, ignorance, ill health and squalor, rather than the calamitous and doomed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Not only in the United States does this lesson urgently need to be learned.