The Party of Lincoln v. the Congressional Democrats

Brookes News ^ | 12 February 2006 | Gerard Jackson

[Lando Lincoln]

What is depressing about the current state of Congress is not the partisanship of the Democrats; partisanship, after all, is integral to politics. No, it the utter absence of shared principles. Not party principles but shared principles based on support for the Constitution, congressional and the vital need to protect the country from terrorism.

That most Democrats in the House and the Senate, as well as their media allies, have treated the principles upon which the Constitution rests with contempt has been a truly frightening thing to behold. Reflecting on this dreadful state of affairs brought my thoughts to bear on the words of Abraham Lincoln, a man with a sharp eye for humbug and an uncanny ability to strike at the philosophical core of his opponents’ arguments.

Lincoln was at his best when he defined the soul of the Republican Party in a scathing attack on the Democrats:

The Republicans inculcate, with whatever ability they can, that the Negro is a man, that his bondage is cruelly wrong, and that the field of his oppression ought not to be enlarged. The Democrats deny his manhood; deny, or dwarf to insignificance the wrong of his bondage; so far as possible, crush all sympathy for him, and cultivate and excite hatred and disgust against him; compliment themselves as Union-savers for doing so; and call the indefinite spreading of his bondage ‘a sacred right of self-government’.

The noble foundation stone of the Republican Party was anti-slavery. Its fervent belief that no man had a right, regardless of race or creed, to hold another in bondage is what made it the bedrock of individual liberty in the US. Now, as we contemplate the moral depravity of the Democrat Party and survey the social wreckage that decades of Democratic policies has wrought on inner cities and the black family we come to realise that Democratic zealots have returned to their roots much as a “dog returns to its vomit”.

To zealous Democrats the Republicans now fill the role that the hapless “Negro” once played. They are now the target of the Democrats’, fears, frustrations, pathological hatreds and their burning need to feel morally and intellectually superior. Having lost the power to exercise their alleged intellectual and moral superiority over blacks, they have turned to the political lynching of conservatives.

Time and time again Democrats refer to Republicans as “evil”, “corrupt”, “barbaric”, “inhumane”, “lacking feelings”, “bereft of humanity,” “racist”, “church burners”, “liars”, “warmongers”, “traitors”, etc. There is nothing here but pure, unreasoning hate. The kind of hate Nazis felt for Jews and the Ku Klux Klan for blacks. The kind of hate that instils loathing and eventually justifies violence. The kind of hate that denies the victim’s very humanity.

This vicious process of demonisation is what the Republicans are really fighting against. I have no doubt they will eventually win. It is only the Democratic ideologues, the True Believers, who are pursuing a policy of political extermination. Nevertheless, these totalitarians have enormous influence in the Party and their warped ideas dominate the media. But so long as the Republicans remember they are the Party of Lincoln and act accordingly victory will eventually be theirs.

Of course, there are those within the GOP who urge “moderation” and counsel the need to capture the middle ground. This siren song is as old as ancient Greece itself. Here is what Lincoln scornfully said of such advice:

Let us not be diverted by more of these sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belaboured — contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong. (Speech at the Cooper Union, New York City, 27 February 1860).

I guess the final irony is that the vast majority of blacks have turned against the Party of emancipation and individual responsibility and now support the Party of slavery, segregation and the lynch mob. The Party that tells them they cannot succeed on their own. The Party that tells them they are not good enough to intellectually compete with whites, except in sport.* The Party that tells them they need the state as a crutch. And the same Party says it is not racist. Perhaps Jefferson Davis did get the last laugh after all.

*This was a common argument in the old South, despite evidence to the contrary.

[Lando Lincoln]

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[Lando Lincoln]

Ping to my Friends.

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[BenLurkin]

We know the democrat party is openly hostile to the Constitution.

But seriuosly, who among the Republicans really cares about what the Constitution really means?

[OldArmy52]

That 90% of blacks vote Dem, tells me that being freed from slavery was not really their desires.

That approx. 50% of whites vote Dem, speaks of the allure of the Plantation to them.

[MosesKnows]

What is depressing about the current state of Congress......it is the utter absence of shared principles.

The remainder of the article was interesting but the first paragraph said all that needed be said to make the point.

[ottersnot]

To paraphrase: There is no middle ground between right and wrong. I think I have a new tag line.

[MosesKnows]

Evil is evil even when everybody is doing it, good is good even when no one is doing it.