The Metabolic Function of Political Parties.

[John D. Brey]

Democrats are akin to catabolism.

Republicans are like anabolism.

Since testosterone is associated with anabolism, it's fitting that the Republican party is, generally speaking, the party of men (to some degree), while the Democratic party is the party of women (again, to some degree). Paralleling this point, is the fact that anabolism is related to building and protecting, while catabolism is related to breaking down (as a necessary predicate of building up). When a wound is opened, the process of healing, building a scab, or protection for the wound, is related to anabolism.

If an open border were thought of as an open wound (allowing the possibility of unwanted elements coming into the body), it fits the analogy of anabolism and catabolism to note the different degree to which Democrats vs. Republicans hand-wring over the need to close up the border. Democrats focus on the true dynamic that is the need for new energy coming into the body (since the birthrate of the existing body has dropped dangerously), while Republicans focus on the dangers associated with an open border, which they see as more like an open wound.

Again, since testosterone is related to anabolism, and thus masculinity, the father in the family is, generically speaking, the protector of the family. If he propitiously and assiduously fathers the family, using strength and wisdom, then the family stays together as a unit. If he fails, the mother might catabolically break down the unit, for the sake of the children, and seek out other avenues of survival. Generally speaking, or historically speaking, the strength of the father is the primary determining factor in the survival of the family. He must constantly, and carefully, repair every break in unity, even as he uses his strength and energy to guard and support the family unity.

Fitting these analogies to a remarkable degree, Vice President Kamala Harris' primary campaign strategy is to label President Trump a poor husband of the nation. Her campaign touts the dangers of a remarriage to President Trump as a failed father, while President Trump's campaign strategy, true to the analogy, is based on closing the boarder, creating a scab, or wall, to wall out, what he sees as dangerous elements coming into the body.

Just like a messy divorce, Vice President Kamala demonizes President Trump, while President Trump treats Vice President Kamala as an unfaithful mother who would marry the nation to weaker guardians and thus subject the family to untoward dangers and upheaval.

The primary question the objective observer of the political metabolism of the United States must negotiate is whether the Democratic Party has become an unfaithful wife and mother, or whether the Republican Party, with President Trump at the helm, has become an unworthy father, therein justifying the somewhat problematic antics of the Democratic Party (using law-fare and unfair tactics in order to affect and protect the divorce from the previous President)?



John

 

[Quintessence]

Uh... what? This metaphor breaks down very quickly with even a very basic examination of what the real world impact of various policies of the two major parties have been over the past few decades. Also not sure why this thread is in "science and religion" when it is a political topic.

 

[John D. Brey]

Uh... what? This metaphor breaks down very quickly with even a very basic examination of what the real world impact of various policies of the two major parties have been over the past few decades. Also not sure why this thread is in "science and religion" when it is a political topic.

You say the metaphor breaks down with a very basic examination of the real world impact of the policies of the two parties over the past few decades. But then you seem to assume everyone knows and agrees with the real world impact you don't even bother to mention?

I put it in the Science and Religion forum based on the direction I assumed the thread would drift. Gender dynamics are very much a part of political metabolics, as well as the basis of most theology. I assumed the thread would gravitate toward religion since it should be fairly evident that the binary nature of Democrat/Republican mirrors the binary of Judeo/Christian.



John

 

[BrokenBread]

One confounding factor on the catabolism side not mentioned here, and has completely been given no consideration in the press as well ,( to Kamala's peril I think), is that I detect a lacking ring of confidence among the democrat populace I know personally born of Kamala attaining her present front runner status in what can only be described as a classic palace end-around that bore no resemblance to the acknowledged standards of the democratic process.
Pouring salt in that wound the fact that her one single previous attempt to attain her present position thru the normal process resulted in her being the least popular among the many to the point that she had to abandon her attempt prematurely .
The impact on her chances that this internal catabolism squabble, that has gone almost completely unspoken by the way, will have being greatly underestimated in my opinion.
Not that any additional votes are going to go the anabolism side mind you, but that there is going to be a small percentage that are just going to stay home.
And in a tight race that may make all the difference

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Kamala Harris Drops Out Of Presidential Race​

December 3, 20191:15 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
By
Scott Detrow
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Asma Khalid

 

[John D. Brey]

One confounding factor on the catabolism side not mentioned here, and has completely been given no consideration in the press as well ,( to Kamala's peril I think), is that I detect a lacking ring of confidence among the democrat populace I know personally born of Kamala attaining her present front runner status in what can only be described as a classic palace end-around that bore no resemblance to the acknowledged standards of the democratic process.
Pouring salt in that wound the fact that her one single previous attempt to attain her present position thru the normal process resulted in her being the least popular among the many to the point that she had to abandon her attempt prematurely .
The impact on her chances that this internal catabolism squabble, that has gone almost completely unspoken by the way, will have being greatly underestimated in my opinion.
Not that any additional votes are going to go the anabolism side mind you, but that there is going to be a small percentage that are just going to stay home.
And in a tight race that may make all the difference

Politics​

Kamala Harris Drops Out Of Presidential Race​

December 3, 20191:15 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
By
Scott Detrow
,
Asma Khalid

To place your statements into the context of the opening message, I would say that forcing President Joe Biden out of the race, and then lining up behind Vice President Kamala Harris without any kind of democratic vetting process could be read to be a continuation of the accusation that the Democrats stole the election from President Trump four years ago? In other words, President Trump claimed the Democrats used law-fare in order to shut down any fair evaluation of whether questionable tactics (unlawful tactics) were used to sway the election to President Joe Biden's favor. Which is not to claim the election was indeed stolen, but merely to say President Trump seems to have a point that the courts denied him the ability to prosecute the case (show his arguments) based on a legitimate fear that it would open a can of worms that would do the Country great harm.

Unfortunately, when, not too long after the election of President Joe Biden, a SWAT team stormed a former President's personal residence, and New York prosecutors opened cases against a former President of the United States on what seems like slim and unimportant facts, a fair-minded and objective observer might be tempted to see those tactics as a continuation of the use of the law to make sure an election President Trump claimed was stolen by the Democrats by legal tactic, sticks? In other words, an objective viewer might find it problematic that the same law-fare used to deny a former President the right to make a case in court about an alleged stolen election, was then used against him after the election was secured, seemingly lending weight to his claim that the Democrats are engaged in a transfer of power out of the hands of the voters and into the hands of Democrat-leaning lawyers?

None of this argues that President Trump was a good husband to the Country. Perhaps the Democrats are engaging in the dictum that all is fair in love and war? Maybe President Trump was a dictatorial, fascist father, who should be divorced, and kicked to the curb, by any means possible? That seems to be consistent with what the Democrats imply? When I discuss such things with my friends, to a man, and moreso a woman, they say that if the election was stolen who cares. The end justified the means.

All of which makes me think of the time when two women were brought to king Solomon both claiming to be the rightful, loving mother, of a beautiful child. In his wisdom, king Solomon commanded them to bring the child to him at which point he drew a sword and lifted his hand saying he'd cut the child in half and give each mother her rightful share. Naturally the true mother cried out to give the child to the other woman. The life of her child was more precious to her than her right to it. Which makes me think, which political party seems to be willing to sacrifice the good of the Nation, perhaps even the life of the Nation, for the sake of retaining political power?

Personally, I fear law-fare is dangerous to the very existence of our way of life in the USA? I fear that an open border, left festering, without any bandage, or anti-biotics, is dangerous to the very life of the body politic. In consequence of these feelings, it seems to me that in the divorce between the Democrats and the Republicans we see taking place before our very eyes, the Democratic mother is willing to sacrifice the children, home, and hearth, if it but means she gets custody of home, hearth, and children by winning the Election taking place in two days.



John

 

[BrokenBread]

To place your statements into the context of the opening message, I would say that forcing President Joe Biden out of the race, and then lining up behind Vice President Kamala Harris without any kind of democratic vetting process could be read to be a continuation of the accusation that the Democrats stole the election from President Trump four years ago?



John

The tell tale signs in the scant polling that has been done on vaulting her to the top shows the anxiety coming from democratic powers do not concern Trump but all relate to how the voting from their camp would be impacted by her anointing.
Even before it was made official they were testing the waters .
Very telling that even in July before her official anointing & before her protracted post-anointing period of running from the press & her having to be prodded into pre-scripted hand holding news interviews , that did not impress anyone, including major democrats like David Axelrod who were publicly disquieted by her falling into "word salad mode" when jostled by a question 2 out of 10 democrat voters said they don't she would make a good president, and another 2 out of 10 refused saying they , "don’t know enough to say."
That is 4 out of 10 democrats unwilling to commit before she was even anointed .
I have not heard her once address democrat voter's concerns with the way she vaulted to the top of the ticket unchallenged .
I think had she got out in front of the issue early on by publicly addressing it instead of sweeping it under the rug she could have gone a long way to winning some of those 4 out of 10 over

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Majority of Democrats think Kamala Harris would make a good president, AP-NORC poll shows​

By SEUNG MIN KIM and LINLEY SANDERS

Updated 6:04 AM EST, July 19, 2024
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WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden faces a growing drumbeat of pressure to drop his reelection bid, a majority of Democrats think his vice president would make a good president herself.
A new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 6 in 10 Democrats believe Kamala Harris would do a good job in the top slot. About 2 in 10 Democrats don’t believe she would, and another 2 in 10 say they don’t know enough to say.