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Democrats in a Nutshell
Friday, October 25, 2002
- by George Kocan, editor of TAPROOT, a Republican newsletter
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| Saul Alinsky was the founder of a new type of politics -- do whatever it takes to win. His book, Rules for Radicals, was dedicated to Lucifer. |
Corrupt ethics has a long tradition in the Democrat Party.
Vote fraud, bribery, ghost pay-rolling and extortion are just a few of the tricks in the Democrat's black bag. So, when Republican Jim Ryan, an experienced prosecutor, asks for an investigation of allegations that Democrat Rod Blagojevich had a city job for which he never showed up, Ryan’s request should not be dismissed just because he has offered no legal proof.
A Democrat’s morality is neither objective nor absolute. He does not form his conscience by consulting an authoritative moral tradition or sources, e.g. the Ten Commandments or the Pope. He consults himself. He looks deeply into his heart to find what seems the right thing for any situation.
No one tells a Democrat what is right or wrong. No one can tell a Democrat that an abortion is wrong. No one can tell a Democrat that fornication or sodomy is wrong. Likewise, no one can tell a Democrat that perjury, defamation, bribery or stealing an election is wrong.
The Democrat does not understand the Truth in the same way a normal person does. For him, Truth is “socially constructed.” Simply put, that means he feels justified in telling a lie as many times as it takes for everyone to believe it. When everyone believes the lie (when the social construct is complete), then it becomes the Truth.
Saul Alinsky is a central figure in Chicago-Democratic politics, a key strategist, theorist and teacher. With financial help from Catholic bishops, he and his acolytes, among them Hillary Clinton, trained thousands of community organizers to work on the Democrat Party agenda.
 So, when Lisa Madigan or Rod Blagojevich seem like they are grasping at straws by making attacks on their opponents’ ethics, they are just following the old play book. The “politics of personal destruction” is the most reliable gun in the Democrat arsenal. Alinsky demanded it.
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it,” he wrote. Elsewhere, Alinsky advised, “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
A Democrat will say, using absolutist language, that racial discrimination is wrong. In the next breath, he will demand racial discrimination against white men. He will, furthermore, neither notice nor care that he contradicted himself.
Dick Durbin began his career in Congress as a pro-life Catholic. He convinced voters that he believed abortion is the taking of a human life.
In the U.S. Senate, however, he has abandoned this position. Now he vigorously defends a woman’s "right to choose." However, he has yet to formally leave the Catholic Church. No rule or law supercedes the moral code which a Democrat has contrived for his situation.
Certainly, Republicans deserve criticism for ethics violations. But, for a Republican, wrong-doing represents a personal failing. For a Democrat, doing wrong is an expression of personal philosophy.
George Kocan is the editor of the Trumpet, the newsletter of the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois. voteKocan@juno.com
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