Posted on 10/21/2004 6:57:10 PM PDT by CHARLITE
My un-American Democratic Party Originally published on May 24, 2004. Republished Oct. 21, 2004
Imagine you've got a Muslim neighbor who is actually a radical, but hasn't yet revealed to you his inner radical thoughts. He may seem like a nice family-oriented, hard-working, reliable guy, but then at a barbecue he tells his private view that the "worldwide Jewish movement" is the embodiment of evil, and that Israel must be destroyed.
One moment you think he's a reasonably normal guy, and a moment later you realize he lives in a very dark world. Still, there he is, smiling at you while he flips a burger and offers you another cold soda.
That's what it felt like for me recently to read a quote by the French ambassador to Britain. According to Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post, the ambassador said Israel was a "[expletive] little country ... why should the world be in danger of World War III because of those people?"
With this as the sentiment of a major ambassador from a major Western country, could a global betrayal of Israel be far off? Indeed, a European Commission poll reported that 59 percent of its democracies thought that Israel was the greatest threat to world peace.
Skeptics might ask how the world could possibly turn against Israel with America as her staunch ally? After all, we are the world's only superpower. The answer lies within America itself, specifically the Democratic Party – the "blue state" half of the country. A paradigm shift is occurring – one that will affect not only Israel's security, but America's as well. Howard Dean's famous comment about not taking sides between Israel and the Palestinians was directed at the many radical Palestinian sympathizers in the "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party," a group that will become increasingly vocal as the war on terror continues.
Make no mistake, anti-Semitism is alive and well as a political force – and so is appeasement. The two will combine, and my Democratic Party will soon betray Israel. It may not be an overt betrayal. It may come in a thousand cuts rather than with a single blow. But it will come.
All this is more than a hunch on my part. It has to do with core values. One party has them, and the other doesn't. The Democratic Party's leaders may look like traditional Americans. They may say they support Israel. They may "stand with our troops" in Iraq. They may go to church and take communion. They may even sing, "God Bless America" on the Capitol steps – but increasingly their inner thought life is not what it seems to be.
Inside they seethe at "red state" America. We watch the weird, angry behavior of prominent Democrats like Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, Howard Dean or even John Kerry and we scratch our heads in wonder. Who are these people? What are they thinking? What caused all this anger, and why is it directed at fellow Americans? The furious fringe is taking over the party. They are solidified in their sense of victimhood. They aren't looking for compromise, but for total victory – revenge almost – in fulfilling their vision for a new America, one that has nothing to do with biblical Christianity or Judaism, the pumping heart of true Americanism.
Last November, famous Soviet Jewish dissident Natan Sharansky wrote a piece for Commentary Magazine in which he made clear that anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism were related. Both express hostility toward the "moral clarity" of Jews and Christians and their shared love of liberty. Anti-Americanism, like anti-Semitism, is increasingly evident both globally and locally – and you'll find them both in my angry Democratic Party!
Now here's the sobering reality: Defeating "angry leftists" at the polls does not solve our problem any more than disarming a crazy person makes him a safe roommate. If I am right that the Democrats (under current leadership) are no longer an American party in any traditional sense, then this has massive implications for our two-party system – which depends on mutual respect and common goals. It's as if Israel were forced to accept radical Palestinians from Gaza as voting members of the Jewish state. Needless to say, shared power combined with radically opposing agendas would spell disaster.
Democracy is too vulnerable a system to withstand an entrenched and determined hostility, serving no higher purpose than itself. Whether or not you call this treachery hardly matters. The end result is the same – conflict, not compromise.
Everyone is talking about the growing red-state /blue-state divide in America. The words "parallel universe" have even been used to describe the two ethics that dominate our political scene. To put it simply, the red side believes in "one nation, under God," and the blue side doesn't. We think rights come from our Creator, they think rights come from our government. We think there are moral absolutes, they think everything is relative, including the Constitution.
Yes, a paradigm shift is in process, a change in national political character that could destroy any hope of national security – from winning the global war on terror to defending our interests in the Middle East, including Israel, to defending our borders right here at home. The "PC" movement that Newsweek famously called "totalitarian" in 1990 is alive and well – and now controls one of our two major parties.
In "Fascism, corruption and my 'Democratic' Party" – written before the 2000 election – I use expressions like "fascism" and "cold civil war" to make the point that America faces an immediate and very real danger from within – a growing anti-traditional, "party first" mentality among "Clinton Democrats" that would stop at nothing to achieve power and remake America in their politically correct image. Although the attacks of 9-11 seemed to inspire the "new patriotism" Ronald Reagan sought, in the end nothing really changed.
Witness how my party acted during the Iraq War – undermining the president at every opportunity – even while knowing America's terrorist enemies were taking comfort in words like "liar" and "fraud" and "regime change." It was a very sad thing to watch for those of us who remember a different Democratic Party. At this point, our only hope is for the public to wake up to what is happening. It won't be easy – for reasons I'll explain – but traditional Democrats can turn the tide by blowing the whistle on our own party.
Mainstream Democrats, especially Jews, better start understanding what is at work here. Time is running out. This political party, which still smiles at you and offers you "a cold soda," sadly no longer thinks like you do, or shares the same loyalties.
Now here is our big problem. These Democrats don't need to win elections the usual way. All they need to do is solidify their angry base – then entrench like an occupying army – and wait until Americans are desperate for a political "change." No one can break the stranglehold of a party that has a solid 40-45 percent base (as some experts claim), and few moral limits.
First, there's no oxygen for a third party, at least not for one that has any chance of winning the presidency. But, meanwhile, these anti-traditional Democrats can undermine the system. They can quietly block legitimate votes in the Senate; they can noisily filibuster judges; they can emotionalize debate, use their power to politicize and subvert committees, force damaging scandal hearings – and do all this while networking with their secular media allies to pressure the public. They can campaign perpetually, wage the politics of personal destruction – they can infiltrate, obfuscate, accuse, demoralize and defeat at every opportunity. Call it permanent gridlock – a wrestling stranglehold just waiting for the pin.
It doesn't sound very American, does it? © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
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Well written. Thank you.
I worked in a factory during college and I thought my foreman was super cool until one day we were having a conversation about my major (Politics) and he leaned over and said to me "The only thing you need to know about 9-11 is that it was orchestrated by the Jewish mafia".
I quickly switched departments
So what can we do about it?
Deserves a standing ovation!
It will not be possible to "re-train" many of the existing people in these cultures. They must be replaced, one newspaper, one network, one web site at a time.
It will take decades, just as the work Stalin began took decades.
In the end, we're going to have to show these gangsters what political power is all about.
Bingo! Great post.
That about sums up the situation. The Constitution as a contract between the American people and America's governing elites means nothing, apart from the philosophical notion of "absolute values", of "truth" in the traditional Western conception. A "good", sober man on the left can fully embrace Constitutional law, swear to uphold it, yet intend to change every word in the document, and be entirely consistent and logical within his own world view. The Constitution "has always been a living, breathing document" he intones, invoking some mystic reference intended to remind one of our Founding Fathers, huddled over a large table with quills in hand. What he intends, of course, is something entirely different
I've learned to temper my deep seated feelings and beliefs, because one can only cry "wolf" so many times before the populace is lulled to sleep. However, there is so much at stake now, an even if a conservative wins this election or the next, this battle, it's unclear if the philosophical "war" is moving towards truth and Constitutional justice.
After all, the majority of Justices on the current Supreme court were appointed by men who obstensively were conservative, and who supported Judicial constructionists, rather than activists. Yet, the Supreme Court remains at least a 5-4 activist Court, willing to create "rights" not recognized by the Constitution, not agreed upon by the people, nor sanctioned by God as defined in most major religions. In effect, the Supreme's and the leftist Democrats intend to change the very premises upon which our Democratic society was founded; they'll even challege the very notion of "truth" itself.
And of course, the Democrats have used all means, extra-Constitutional or otherwise, to guarantee that no conservative/constructionist ever sits on that Court again, as we have seen in their blocking of Bush's Judicial nominations in spite of a GOP majority in the Senate. They simply will not ceded their power, regardless of what means they need to take to sustain it. Laws and elections mean nothing. The moment Kerry takes office, and the Senate moves into Democrat hands, the Democrats will rewrite the rules to prohibit filabusters in the nominating process. Kerry's appointments will move through the Senate in less than a week.
The problem I fear, as much as Nuclear detonation at a most inappropriate place, in a most inopportune moment, is that the political left will rewrite the "rules" which have glued this nation together for over 200 years. As evident by Gores challenge to the very notion of the "ballot", and Kerry's preemptatory actions to expand this to all 50 states, I fear that the next Democrat in office will make it impossible for anyone other than a Democrat of their paticular philosophical persuation, to ever win office again.
Think "California" wrought national, with every election challenged, 125% of the electorate voting, and a "one party state" similar to the Mexican "PRI" party ruling in American for 100 years to come, and you'll have a window upon my nightmare.
But, then again, I'm not an alarmist.
SFS
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