I T IS ONE of the ironies of American history that the Democratic Party has managed to pass itself off as the champion of the underdog and the crusader for equal rights. The actual history of the Democratic Party distinct from the history of some individual Democrats tells a very different story. It is a history in which the lust for power, not a concern for the poor and dispossessed, looms large. This story is seldom told. Indeed, so successful has been the suppression of the true history of the Democratic Party for the sake of the narrative that simply laying out the facts appears as a startling forensic exercise, a brief for the prosecution. It might begin like this:
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: I come not to praise the Accused but to bury him. For too long, he has afflicted our body Politic with vilenesses various, seducing our Youth and employing the Institutions of our Government against the People in a nake Quest for Power. For too long, the Enemy has skulked and lurked under cover of good Intentions, subverting the Principles of Self-Reliance, personal Industry, and limited Government in favor of an alien Ideology whose maleficent and baleful Presence continues to distress our Nation.
A decent respect to the opinions of mankind, therefore, demands this Indictment. The history of the present Democratic Party is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over the several States. It is, in fact, a criminal Organization masquerading as a political Party.
To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world:
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The first thing you need to know about the Democratic Party is that its first vice president, the traitor Aaron Burr, shot and killed one of the Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, and then plotted sedition against his own president. Everything else is, as they say, commentary.
Again, let me acknowledge that my indictment of the Democratic Party is not necessarily an indictment of individual Democrats, many of whom throughout our history have been true American patriots who worked hard to better the estate of their fellow man. My brief is against the Democratic Party, which from the inception of the Republic has been a public enemy an organization antithetical to our nations traditions, civic virtues, and moral values.
From the inception of the Republic, the Democratic Party has been a public enemy an organization antithetical to our nations traditions, civic virtues, and moral values.
Does that seem overstated? Consider the facts. Whether it has been defending slavery, selling out our secrets, or simply voting present so as not to take a stand on the crucial moral issues of both statecraft and soul-craft, the party of slavery, segregation, secularism, and sedition has always been in the forefront of everything inimical to the United States of America.
Its unofficial modern slogan by any means necessary is indicative of its fundamental amorality. Its will to power, especially since the mid-19th century, is insatiable. It sees greater government as the greater good. It views individual liberty as dangerous and personal choice always excepting abortion, the only sacrament the atheist left acknowledges and honors as contrary to the will of the demos. It is always in favor of centralized fascism, including but not limited to the power to ban, criminalize, and anathematize speech and ideas with which it does not agree and which threaten its hegemony.
And all of this in disguise under the cloak of compassion, of tolerance, of fairness. The Tarnhelm beneath which modern liberalism (its very name mocks the political origins of the term) lurks, coiled and ready to strike whenever our side lets down its guard. Come, I think hells a fable, says Dr. Faustus to Mephistopheles in Marlowes play. Ay, think so still, till experience change thy mind, replies the devil. And so in the hell the left has made of America over the past half-century or so we currently dwell.
How did we get here? How have we wandered so far afield from the founding virtues of individualism, self-reliance, bootstrapism, private (as opposed to public) charity, religious belief, religious liberty, personal expression, freedom of both public and private speech, the Judeo-Christian heritage, the right to self-defense? What Mephistophelian toxin has been injected into our body politic, the kind that makes us first doubt, then reject, and then finally mock our own first principles? With America teetering on the brink of collapse for the first time since perhaps the War of 1812, how do we combat, overthrow, and finally eradicate the scourge of liberalism which in its modern incarnation has nothing to do with classical liberalism from our national dialogue?
With America teetering on the brink of collapse for the first time since perhaps the War of 1812, how do we combat, overthrow, and finally eradicate the scourge of liberalism?
The first step is to overcome our innate squeamishness about the nature of the task at hand. In order to defeat existential evil, one must not only give the devil his due but also use his own weapons against him. No doctor seeks accommodation with cancer. No general seeks to give a defeated mortal enemy a sense of self-esteem not to mention the hope of victory. As we learned during the victorious wars of our national history, defeat should not be temporary but permanent: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan will never again rise, nor the Confederacy. Until the right learns this lesson and acts on its implications in the words of Ted Chappaquiddick Kennedy the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
Alas, their dream is our nightmare. In order to defeat the left having now exchanged its carnival mask of liberalism for (once more) progressivism we must halt the work, stifle the cause, annihilate the hope, and bury the dream. To do otherwise is to condemn posterity to endless battle.
Observe a current electoral map. The so-called red states (and how did the socialist left saddle the American right with the color of Communism? You can thank the broadcast networks) overwhelmingly represent the flyover heartland. Its the country of the artless hello, of low taxes, low unemployment, and low dependency the country of unlocked doors, personal honesty, moral standards, and the handshake after which you dont have to count your fingers. The blue states, on the other hand, represent the party of Big Government; high taxes; higher incomes (mostly derived from government, academe, or Hollywood, which is to say from taxpayers or suckers); proud chicanery; public-employees unions; the corrupt Democratic big-city machines in Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, San Francisco, and elsewhere; flimflam; three-card monte; and a tradition of fleecing the marks who, after all, have it coming.
