HJS Comments: I have always liked the idea that there was very little difference between the Republican moderates and those of the Democratic Party. They were both heading in the same direction, even if they were on different streets. Most of the time, those streets were only a block apart anyway. The American Socialist Party and the American Communist Party never did well, in the main because neither had a great deal of support unless the economy in some areas was so bad, that being out of work was epidemic. FDR invited many of the socialist and communist leaders to join his party, believing that such a broad umbrella would accommodate many different views and create a much larger base for the Democrats. What he did not anticipate, however, was the anger and the stridence of the leftist parties and their full-time political maneuvering against the rest of the Democratic Party's base, subtly and carefully turning the party to the left. The left means no countries, no borders, no patriotism, no nationalities, no pride of citizenship because citizens should only show allegiance to internationalism, under the United Nations, and not to their own countries. Not only is the left on different streets than the moderates of either party, they are moving in a different direction, away from the American values we hold dear. They will be happiest when our culture, continually under attack from both politicians and "internationalist" educators, is not even a memory. You might say that this national evil is the change that the Left can believe in. As for the rest of us, we are faced with another election that will determine whether "this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
HJS
June 07, 2008
The Audacity of the Democrats
There was a pre-Lewinsky time, before moral relativism blurred America's vision, when associating with people like Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers would have automatically excluded someone from attaining the highest office in the land. Back then, anyone with well known connections to such America-averse personalities would have been rejected by a super-majority of the electorate during primary season and almost certainly blocked by the Democratic Party before they could have gotten to within a mile of the White House.
But those days -- when patriotic, true liberals like Joe Lieberman were considered typical Democratic Party politicians -- are gone. Now politicians like Lieberman are banished to the Party's periphery and leftists, not liberals, like Denis Kucinich, Bernie Sanders, Jim McDermott, John Kerry, (who served in Vietnam), Jim McGovern, Patrick Leahy, Richard Durbin, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have replaced them.
Until recently in our history, a President Barack Obama would have been an impossibility. But given the political and ideological climate that exists today in America, the ascension of a leftist like Barack Obama into presidential politics makes perfect sense.
Beliefs like domestic terrorist William Ayers's and racist, anti-US preacher Jeremiah Wright's are no longer met with utter scorn or a trip to behind the woodshed, but are embraced, promoted and defended by many Americans.
Think MoveOn, International ANSWER, think hordes of young neo-communists and their indoctrinating, puppet-master Marx-spouting professors.
Think Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill and his acolytes. Think NYU, Columbia, The New School and Harvard. Most importantly, ponder the makeup and direction of the Democratic Party leadership.
Like Barack Obama and his radical friends, it is appallingly far Left. Ideological descendants of Marx and Rousseau now lead the Democratic Party and they have turned it into a disloyal opposition to an increasingly accommodating GOP. They have molded the Party into a force working stridently and unashamedly against a Commander in Chief during wartime.
They have made it a den of treachery devoted to American defeat in Iraq. They preside over an institution advised and influenced by moneyed, non-governmental groups and individuals with unquestionably anti-US agendas who help make the Party a pseudo-intellectual sinkhole filled with perverse, tried-and-failed ideas repulsive to the majority of Americans. Those ideas are shaped into agendas which are then forced on the public by an activist leftwing judiciary and by a major media and arts consortium shot through with utter disrespect, indeed contempt, for traditional American values, religions and institutions.
The Democratic Party has devolved into a club for the
illegitimately aggrieved, the self-absorbed, the self-hating and the perpetually pissed-off. It is a sanctuary where solipsistic malcontents and their disjointed causes find refuge and support. It has long ceased being an earnest gathering of broad minds where man's timeless problems are examined against the backdrop of the Constitution and solutions to them proposed based on the actual realities of the human condition.
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