Party Politics in the Mountain State

Just this amazing morning, I read this asinine Op-Ed Piece in the Marshall University campus newspaper, The Parthenon, claiming that Democrats in and from West Virginia have shown proven leadership.

Here is my reply:

Firstly, if one countenances the facts that West Virginia's state government doubled in size in the last fifteen years and her citizens see much less for this growth, that West Virginians' average incomes stand about 75% the national average, that while most states since 1965 nearly tripled their per capita income West Virginia did not even doubled hers, that West Virginia's ranking dropped consistently from 30th to 49th in the last 74 years (thank goodness for Mississippi), that West Virginia's economic freedom settles dead last in the Union, that we have the worst wealth equality in these United States, and that West Virginia ranks at the bottom of lists, such as, State Business Tax Climate Index, State Competitiveness Report, State Technology and Science Index, New Economy Index, State Liability Systems Ranking, then West Virginia's Democrats have led to those things which you approve.

Secondly, for one to believe that a West Virginia state democrat and a national-level democrat process a similar political philosophy, one mistakes sadly. Democrats in the mountain state are mostly big government and ever-reaching social controllers, if they belonged to the republican camp, they would be branded, as "Compassionate Conservatives"; the same as the current Administration, which so many love to decry. Our tragedy mounts the stage by our state politicians gallantly storming the set lacking the brain capacity to be what West Virginia needs most right now, pragmatists. No party has a monopoly on Freedom, Equality, Leadership; they all share, for the better or worse.

Finally, how is a truly concerned citizen of a state, as West Virginia, and a nation, as United States of America, to take what simpleton excrements that rest in this type of column and still stand against the grand slayers of a myriad of governments--the willful ignorance of facts and the myopia of the never-ceasing delusions in party politics?


I cannot stop single-handedly this stupidity, yet I continue onwards. Party loyalty ruins the ideas of the individual and strips him of his liberty and humanity, making him a slave to the collective.