Understanding the Democrats by understanding Santa

Responding to a friend

I was watching a lovely, touching Christmas movie last night about this 9 year old girl whose faith in Santa was destroyed by her father who lived on a farm, was having some major financial problems--and had lost his wife sometime in the past.
Her father's attack on her faith was precipitated by this event: Some town workmen were suspending Santa's sleigh and reindeer across a street when one of the reindeer fell off and broke. The girl thought it was Prancer and that Santa would not be able to make his rounds. Then, as if by a miracle, as she was walkng thru the woods back home she saw a reindeer--not known in these parts.
She told her father who blew her off. Then, as he was driving her to stay with her Aunt Sarah, the deer appeared in the headlights with a hurt leg. The father got out his rifle and was going to shoot it--but the deer disappeared.
Then the girl found it in their barnyard and hid it in a shed and fed it back to health.
She wrote a letter to Santa saying she would deliver Dancer to a specific location on Christmas Eve for Santa to pickup and gave it to a mall Santa she knew was a fake. And then the father found out about the deer, the pastor preached a sermon on the girl's faith after reading a story about her in the local paper, and the father sold the deer to a local merchant who penned it up and used it to attract crowds to his Tree lot.
She tries to release him, falls from a tree and gets a concussion.
The long and short of it is, the girl recognizes that reindeer can't fly when it can't escape thru the hole in the roof's pen she made before falling from the tree, her father buys the deer back, he reads to her from a book he rescued from the barn where she had been nursing the raindeer, "Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood," together they take the deer off to the rendezvous with Santa, the deer disappears over a cliff, she can hear his collar bells ringing in the distance, is reconciled with her father, and has reconciled her loss of faith with a new deeper understanding.
Your friend is a lovely faithful person--and shaking faith can be an earthshaking event, so I don't wish it upon her. But Reagan set out to dismantle the programs of the New Deal that created a vibrant Middle Class. The programs were so set in stone it seemed a fantasy to my mind that Reagan could do it. But here we are, only 30 years later, on the precipice of a collapsing vision of compassionate liberalism. And we are there because of the deals I listed in my epistle to the faithful the other day that have been made just in the Obama years under the pretense of saving the Middle Class--like current tax break legislation which opens the door to eliminating Social Security under the guise of reducing the payroll deduction and giving more working people immediate money.
What a Trojan Horse.
And the past 30 years have been filled with Trojan Horses passed by or supported by Democrats--like NAFTA and the elimination of the Glass-Stiegel Act and and the work for welfare program and on and on.
That is how I see it now.
I guess your friend will find the proof in the pudding down the line.
The Democratic Party is not the one she remembers. They are mainly concerned about getting re-elected