Any political party, sponsoring welfare laws that penalize people for earning a little money so that they can start go get off the rolls, is evil. Those "Great Society" laws were passed at the behest of the very Southern Democrats who opposed the Voting Rights Act. That such laws should stay on the books after a decade-long trial with Democrats in control of both the Congress and the Presidency (as they did during Carter), that they resisted welfare reform mightily during the Clinton years, shows that they have NO INTEREST in helping the poor become prosperous. That they continue to enroll constituencies by indoctrinating children in the ignorance and depravity that impoverishes a society, that they contiune to enlarge voting blocs by selling dependency, shows that indenture and opression are their primary means to power. That power is then sold to the extremely wealthy who use that agenda to stay on top, using tax exempt foundations to sequester their wealth, manipulate markets to crush their competition, and tax into servitude, those who would escape the bonds of wages, to fund the indenture of their fellow human beings, slowly turning them into a rabble of hapless animals.
The Democrats are the Slave Party. They were before the Civil War and they so remain today. That such people beat their breasts about their pious generosity with money taken at gunpoint from others, while secretly promulgating such a massive evil to feather their own nests, earns them a special place in hell.
I live for the day that a conservative politician will lay out that case and call out these evil monsters for what they have done. The gutless RINOs who go along with this socialist program while quelching conservatives who would level that charge, pretending the advantage of "we're not the Democrats" are, in many ways, even worse, simply because they know better. They're going along with the Democrats the same reasons: staying in power, prospering themselves, and selling favors to their friends.
God, please forgive us for what we have allowed this Republic to become.
Good Morning and thank you for your short and powerful thesis re the Slave Party.