What do South Dakota Democrats Believe?

 I have a series of questions for the following officials: Sen. Tim Johnson, Rep. Stephanie Herseth, State Sen. Jim Hundstad, State Rep. Burt Elliot, and State Rep. H. Paul Dennert. These are all Democrats who represent Brown County, the first two in Washington DC, and the latter three in the Legislature in Pierre. Here are some words from the Northern Valley Beacon, which if I read the url and masthead correctly, is the blog of the Brown Country Democratic Party. Here is what the Brown County Democrats said just the other day:

In 2004, we not only lost an election. We lost cause for hope. Some people in the Democratic Party see the loss as an occasion for remartialing our forces and going on the attack. Others see that the current opposition has redefined itself as a vicious enemy that has more interest in imposing a regime of discrimination and oppression than it does in participating in a democracy. They, who include some families that built Brown County, have serious questions about whether the county, the state, and the nation have become hostile environments for their values and beliefs. Strong Party members are faced with the same issues that brought some of their forebears to Brown County. If we want genuine democracy, we may have to look for it some place other than South Dakota. Perhaps even some place other than the United States. It may be time to build again.

Do the elected officials listed above agree with the Brown County Democratic Party that genuine democracy does not exist in South Dakota?  Like the Brown County Democratic Party, have they given up hope? Do they agree that those who believe in democracy should seriously consider leaving South Dakota? The Brown County Democrats continue in reference to the Thune-Daschle race:

In so doing, [Thune and his supporters] destroyed a fragile intellectual and moral environment in a state that has a very difficult time in surmounting its history of racist and bigoted malignancy. The values of malice and derogation of personhood are state doctrine, and it is being dispensed from even the state univerisities (sic).

Do the elected officials named above agree that that the “intellectual and moral environment” of the state has been shattered? Do they believe that a “racist and bigoted malignancy” lies just beneath the surface of South Dakota politics? Do they believe that “the values of malice and derogation of personhood are state doctrine”?

We have noted that the John Thune and George W. Bush campaigns have depended heavily on malicious propaganda techniques used by totalitarian regimes to establish their holds on people and hold them in repression through policies of discrimination and intimidation… George W. Bush seems to have studied the State of South Dakota for lessons in totalitarianism.

Do the elected officials above believe that John Thune and George W. Bush tend towards totalitarianism? How about Bill Janklow? Was he a totalitarian?

However, the totalitarian state of South Dakota did not end with prison camps. In becoming the usury capitol of America, the state made arrangements with credit card companies that have never been uncovered. It squirreled away money in state accounts that the Janklow regime refused to reveal to the state officer who is supposed to monitor all the financial goings on. The information has never been made known to people to whom the government is supposed to be held accountable.

Again, do the Democratic officials of the State of South Dakota and Brown County agree with the Brown County Democratic Party that we are “the totalitarian state of South Dakota”? Do our local Democratic officials believe that the efforts to bring credit and banking industry into this state were a mistake? If it is true that money from these operations has been misappropriated, will Sen. Hundstad, or Reps. Dennert or Elliot look into this for us? Will they attempt to remove any so called “gag-law” that prevents investigation, or perhaps challenge such a law in court? And finally:

And excuse us if we do not support those who perpetrate malicious frauds to gain power. Excuse us if we no longer support the massive federal subsidation of South Dakota. Excuse us if we do not support a universities (sic) that have become servants of the party line. And excuse us if we join those who believe that America is a better country than the one it has become.

As some of us, in the words of the New Testament, shake the dust of this place off our feet and move on, excuse us.

Do our federal Democratic officials oppose the “massive federal subsidation of South Dakota”? And do any of the Democrats who have an interest in Brown County agree with the Brown County Democratic Party that Democrats would be better off if they shook the dust of South Dakota off their feet? Just asking.