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Admit It: Decent Folks No Longer Have a Place in the Democratic Party


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By / 12 February 2014

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The most recent edition of my favorite political journal, National Review, features this blurb in their wrap-up of the week’s happenings:

The war on poverty has been conducted partly in earnest and partly self-servingly … Head Start today is a money-laundering program under which federal expenditures are transmitted to Democratic candidates … The main beneficiaries of the war on poverty have not been and will not be the poor – the beneficiaries are the alleged poverty warriors themselves. The result: a large and expensive welfare state that provides relatively little welfare, a destructive and ruinous war on poverty that has not done much to reduce poverty. It gives the poor some material succor, but leaves the root causes alone – at best.

Fortunately, I was reading this in a public place — because the excerpt made me want to throw my coffee cup against the wall. Righteous indignation? Well, I hope so. But fear not, self-control won out – the only place the java went was down my gullet.

With so much to choose from in the political/cultural Left’s fetid trove of ludicrosities and obscenities, I’m not sure why this particular outcropping of obnoxiousness set me off so sharply– but it did. And reminded me of a harsh truth that simply must be acknowledged once and for all: these are bad people– the Democrats, I mean.

I know, the frontliners in the GOP too frequently are prodigies of gutlessness. Boehner and company? An embarrassment of don’t-create-a-ruckus, go-along-to-get-along accomodationalism, for sure.

But Democrats? They’ve nakedly, ineluctably morphed into the party of evil. As I said, harsh; but undeniably true.

Along with leading the charge in bankrupting America fiscally, Dems have gone whole hog in ransacking the soul of her citizens, as well. These towering disgraces have nailed their colors — Pink? Lavender? Red? Mortuary Gray? — to the mast of legalized baby-killing, perversion of sex and genuine marriage, institutionalized envy and victimhood. Defecating on our military and law enforcement is a party-wide pastime for these wretches — cloyingly using cops or troops as political props when convenient, otherwise icily cutting their legs out from under them at virtually every juncture. This braying Donkey caucus thrives on distorting facts and debauching history — that is, lying — and turning American against American: black or Latino versus white, woman versus man, young versus old, taker versus producer. Since God specifically clues us in that He “hates” those last two bits of odiousness (Proverbs 6:19), are we allowed to call their proponents what they are: wicked?

Admittedly, I’m fingering most directly Democratic leadership — national and state politicians, party chairmen and hackish muckety-mucks. I must say, though, the “little people” who heedlessly keep returning these jamokes to power are on the hook, as well, bearing a dilating measure of blame for the catastrophe the party of FDR and LBJ and Clinton and Obama are wreaking upon this decreasingly praiseworthy nation. Sorry, but “I was born into a Democratic family” or “My Daddy was a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, so I am, too” or “I belong to a union, so I always vote Democrat” flatly doesn’t cut it any longer as justification for re-installing these America-smothering scoundrels into office year after year. The sentimental and selfish obliviousness of these, my fellow Americans, is despoiling my country.

At one time, I suppose, one could insist there remained redoubtable outposts of psuedo-sanity within this Liberal/Leftist claque — the odd public official, the local or state branch which bore the title “Democrat” but still came down on the right side of things, at least intermittently. That hoary possibility, however, is currently, virtually non-existent as those adhering to the big-government-adoring, morality-eschewing faction march lockstep toward a utopia they envision, but which sensible, decent and sentient people dread.

You read my implication correctly: “sensible, decent, sentient” people are no longer Democrats.

If you’re a God-and-Country loving habitué of the United States, a patriot who believes the State shouldn’t perpetually pay people NOT to work, that our Republic was founded, in some meaningful regard, on reverence for the Creator and respect for the Judeo-Christian Scriptures, that unborn human beings and that highest of human institutions — marriage — deserve some official protections, that Christianity is NOT the problem in this land but part of the solution, that skin-color or ethnic ancestry are not the traits to trump all others — if you are that kind of individual and still are clinging convulsively to any smidgen of devotion to the Democratic party? Time to wake up and make the break.

Weather by blinkered ignorance or ugly stupidity or sheer malevolence — and I’d contend it’s very often a blending of all the above — Barack Obama’s party is pushing policies and philosophies which are evincing themselves the undoing of America. He — Obama — is the incarnation of this misguided gang. He’s essentially wrong about everything because his political fellow-travelers are similarly situated: wrong, wrong, wrong; everywhere one looks Team Democrat is wrong. Patronize “wrongness” long enough? There’s always a price to pay, one our nation is paying right now — and will continue, punishingly, to pay far into the murky distance; unless America summarily dumps this bunch.

Dunces among the Republicans? Idiots turning up at Tea Party rallies? Cringe-worthy Libertarians or conservatives? Self-evidently, they exist. Any sufficiently numerous cohort of humanity is going to generate, at minimum, the occasional nit-wit or knave. Democrats, however, make foolishness and villainy their national charter, actively peddling it to the gullible and running the country into the ground in the mix.

Ronald Reagan memorably announced, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the party left me.” That was fifty-one years ago – but today Old Dutch isn’t alone. He’ s joined by other self-professedly honorable people, many of whom have yet to acknowledge the obvious: the party of evil has afforded them no other option but a decisive parting of the ways.

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About the author: Steve Pauwels

Steve Pauwels is pastor of Church of the King, Londonderry, NH and managing editor of ClashDaily.com

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Still More Evidence of Socialist at Work in America


Maryland Democrats In Annapolis Seek To Strip Mayor’s Office of Its Powers After Republican Wins Mayoral Race…

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/11/11/maryland-democrats-in-annapolis-seek-to-strip-mayors-office-of-its-powers-after-republican-wins-mayoral-race/

A coup d’état, how progressive.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Days after a Republican was elected mayor of Annapolis, City Council members say they will revisit legislation that would strip the mayor’s office of much of its power.

Democratic Alderman Ross Arnett of Ward 8 tells The Capital he will introduce a charter amendment to move Annapolis to a council-manager style of government. The city manager would report directly to the City Council, not the mayor.

Under Arnett’s legislation, the mayor’s post would be largely ceremonial. The mayor would retain a single vote on the council. Arnett says the change would stabilize the city’s management.

If the measure is approved, it would mean the Democratic-dominated council would be removing the powers of the first Republican mayor elected since 1997.

Last week, Republican Mike Pantelides defeated Democratic incumbent Josh Cohen.

Democrats Run America’s Ten Poorest Cities


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I have come to believe that chain emails may one day lead to the death of our society. Chain emails alone are responsible for the creation and the success of at least one popular website, snopes.com. Chain emails (and their ugly step-sister, the forward) are the bane of every email user’s technological needs. We must make ourselves more adept with modern technology so we have to use the internet and email… which leads us to receive junk mail at a level far worse than anything the old mainstay, snail mail, used to give us. But not all chain mail/forward/junk mail is bad; in fact, there are times when these pieces of technological dross are downright informative!

Recently, I received one example of the incredibly mysterious and rarely seen “informative” chain mail. It’s one of the more famous ones that have gone around in the last couple of years. In it, the author claims that the ten poorest cities in America have all be run into the ground by Democrat policies.

Here it is in its entirety…

What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rate all have in common?

rundowncityDEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP!

Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected
a Republican mayor since 1961;

Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn’t elected one since 1954;

Cincinnati, OH (3rd)… since 1984;

Cleveland, OH (4th)… since 1989;

Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican Mayor;

St. Louis, MO (6th)…. since 1949;

El Paso, TX (7th) has never had a Republican Mayor;

Milwaukee, WI (8th)… since 1908;

Philadelphia, PA (9th)… since 1952;

Newark, NJ (10th)… since 1907.

Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and always expecting different results.”

I have received this message more times than I can count, and while I didn’t disbelieve the information, I was sure that the information was dubious in some way. But when I recently had it come into my email inbox again, I decided to dig a little deeper. What I found was that the information was accurate and that a famous political commentator had already written about the veracity of the list. Glenn Beck wrote about the problems in these cities way back in 2008, and his conclusion about the amazing list of cities? “We’ve talked a lot about “change” in this country recently, but there’s a much more important catchphrase that we’ve neglected: “All politics is local.” Maybe instead of focusing so much on who we put in charge of our country, we should focus more on who we put in charge of our cities.”

The Left, of course, laughs at the news that the ten poorest cities in the country are all run by Democrats. Meanwhile, they parrot the talking points of the liberal media by pretending that stories like this one, about the poorest states being Republican, actually mean something. The brilliant Mark Hendrickson expounded on both of these stories (you can read both of his pieces here and here) for Forbes magazine online, and his conclusion is this: “The most fundamental difference between the data that conservatives prefer—that the 10 poorest cities are longtime Democratic strongholds—and the data that liberals will be more inclined to cite—that the 10 poorest states are predominantly Republican, is that conservatives can point to actual policies that Democrats implemented that contributed to the impoverishment of the cities, while the liberals cannot point to specific GOP policies that have caused the poorer states to lag behind.”

While the most basic information may come to us by way of chain mail forwards, just a little digging shows that the truth is really as simple as it seems. See, the truth of the matter is this: Democrat policies are destroying our nation’s cities. If the voters in these cities are happy being poor and having little to no prospect of leaving poverty, then they are electing the right people. If they’d like the opportunity to climb out of poverty and build a middle-to-upper class legacy for their family, then they could start by electing people in whose interest it is to see them prosper — conservatives.

Democrats win when the people are poor, conservatives win when the people prosper. That is the difference.

Correction: A reader pointed out that Miami currently has a Republican Mayor (Tomas Regalado). The email began being distributed before Mr. Regalado’s election in 2009. However, it seems that there has been one other Republican mayor in Miami – Joe Carollo. Sorry for the confusion.

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