Democrats Never Change: Party First, Country Second

President Obama, much like F.D.Roosevelt did in his Presidency, is advocating a program for rebuilding the infrastructure of the country and thus put people to work during the current economic downturn. In FDR’s program, he had a similar program called the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The states were given the power to administer these programs. Where did all this spending go? FDR spent the money not in the poor states (the South) but in western and eastern states. Why? The south was solidly Democratic and their votes were in the bag, but the other two areas were relatively close in results.

 What better way is there to convert a region to the Democratic philosophy other than giving them money. Indiana’s Democratic county chairman V.G. Coplan told FDR’s campaign manager:

"Use these Democratic projects to make votes for the Democratic Party.”

The Democratic Party was not thinking in terms of what was good for the country, but what was good for them and their socialistic ambitions. Russian President Vladimir Putin, a communist, compares himself to FDR and considers his economic programs to revitalize Russia as analogous to FDR’s New Deal. LINK

I wonder where President Obama will spend the infrastructure money that he is proposing. I suspect that most will be spent in cities with less than 500,000 people as all cities with larger populations voted for the Democrats when Senator Kerry was running for president.

The current demographics for President Obama’s victory have not yet been defined although Nate Silver LINK suggests that

Barack Obama's strength in cities won him the election, meaning he "might be America's first urban" president, statistics whiz Nate Silver writes in Esquire. Obama's "pragmatic, superior, hip, stubborn, multicultural" ways make him unmistakably urban, Silver writes, and America's changing demographics mean that urban voters matter now more than ever.

This makes me of the opinion that Obama will spend the infrastructure money in the smaller cities and in those states that might swing to the Republicans.  The infrastructure bill might be the October surprise.

I imagine that Dan Savage LINK said it all when he recommended to the Democratic Party that

“The future success of liberalism is tied to winning the cities.”