“But know this, that in the last days, perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” 2 Timothy 4:1-5
More and more it becomes apparent that the verses above clearly describe the Democratic Party and the political Left. Sound extreme? Then consider the following:
Republicans brought to the Senate floor a bill to prevent the killing of babies in the womb once they begin to feel pain at 20 weeks. All but three Democrats voted against the bill. To them, ripping limbs off of a baby while it writhes in agony in its mother’s womb is wholly acceptable, and as Planned Parenthood describes it, “sacred,” “a blessing.” To the “normal” American, that barbarism is an outrage.
Democrats regularly lie to the American people. They and the mainstream media lied about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act bill, claiming that the bill would bring “Armageddon,” and “the end of the world.” (Nancy Pelosi’s comment that the bill would bring about Armageddon alone demonstrates her lack of Christian understanding, since Armageddon is only a disaster for the ungodly. For the Christian, Armageddon is Victory!) USA Today even called the tax bill “a scam.” Yet, they all knew that the bill would put money back into the pockets of 80-90 percent of all Americans, though not into the pockets of their wealthy backers in California and New York.
They lied about the Nunes Memo, claiming that it contained secret information which would endanger the country if it was made public. It did not. (The Nunes Memo exposed the misdeeds of some high officials in the FBI and DOJ as they used hearsay evidence paid for by the Clinton Campaign and the DNC to get a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page, and through him, on the Republican candidate’s campaign strategies. Then, following the election of President Trump, they continued to use that discredited “dossier” to advance the narrative of collusion between the Trump camp and the Russians.)
Then the Democrats produced their own memo in rebuttal, which was so filled with the classified information that they had accused the the Nunes Memo of containing that the FBI demanded that it be redacted and President Trump returned it to them to do so. Democratic Representative Schiff had publically worried that President Trump would redact all of the information that proved the Nunes Memo to be false, indicating that the Democratic strategy was to force the President to redact the memo and then accuse him of hiding the truth from the American people. Instead, the President gave it back to them to redact and when they had done so (reluctantly, and after several days), he allowed it to be released to the public. Their memo did not dispute the most important point in the Nunes Memo: that FBI Deputy Director McCabe had told the House committee that the FBI would never have asked for the FISA warrant without the dossier, which they knew was opposition propaganda.
The Left regularly attempts to hide their wrongdoings from the public eye. No Democrat voted to release the Nunes Memo to the public because it brought to light the wrong doing of Democratic partisans in the FBI and DOJ. Yet, every single Republican did vote to release the Schiff Memo.
They hypocritically profess righteousness while indulging in the very sins they accuse the Right of committing. The “party of women” has for decades protected, celebrated, and turned a blind eye to the sexual harassment and even sexual assault of its exalted members: Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Al Franken, Harry Weinstein, John Conyers, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Kevin Spacy, Mark Halperin and others, while loudly proclaiming that the Republican party is engaged in a “war against women” because most Republicans find murdering a baby in the womb to be morally reprehensible.
Under President Obama, they waged a relentless war against our constitutional freedoms, a war which continues, though without the backing of the current White House. They attacked the use of nativity scenes on public property where they had been displayed without controversy for decades. The “Freedom From Religion” group began displaying billboards spouting such slogans as “No one died for your sins. Jesus is a myth,” and going after towns for allowing signs saying that the churches of that community welcomed people to their town. They stopped children in some schools from singing Christmas carols or even celebrating Christmas at school at all. And recently, a teacher was forced to take down a poster with the national motto, “In God we trust” on it.
And they attack our other constitutional freedoms as well. Although it is becoming more and more obvious that the shooting in Parkland, Florida could have been stopped if the FBI, the social services department in Parkland, the Broward County Police department, and even the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had done their jobs, it is the NRA that the left and the media are going after as usual, in an attempt once more to take guns, all guns, out of the hands of law abiding citizens. No member of the NRA has ever been involved in a mass shooting except to save lives by going after the shooter. But the Left never lets the truth stand in their way. CNN even held a ridiculous town hall where they carefully chose survivors who also blamed the NRA, even going so far as to script some of the questions for them to ask, and then allowed Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, whose four deputies had hidden behind their cars rather than going into the school to confront the shooter, to shout at the NRA spokesperson in front of the cameras. Yeah, it was the NRA’s fault that everyone had dropped the ball!
Freedom of speech, according to the Left, only belongs to the Left. Those who have dissenting opinions are relentlessly attacked, even physically. And when groups riot on campuses to try to prevent conservatives to speak to student groups who have invited them there, Democrats shrug their shoulders and say that the rioters have the right to express their opposition.
More and more scientists are coming forward to say that we cannot know how much effect humans have on climate change, despite the fact that they often lose grant money or are ridiculed for going against the Left’s view. Scientists on the Left simply ignore the fact that none of their computer models or dire warnings have actually come to pass.
The Democratic Party, in fact, has sold its soul to the ungodly aims of the far Left, abandoning the Biblical precept of love between a man and a woman in order to force gay marriage and transgender rights upon all Americans. Suddenly instead of male and female we have lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersexual and asexual as well. Lesbian women and “cisgender” (non-homosexual men) are scolded for not wanting to date “women with penuses,” and the rights of these sinful individuals, who make up just 3.8% of the citizenry, are protected by the Democrats even when doing so infringes upon the rights of the other 96.2% of Americans.
They protect illegal aliens in an attempt to garner more votes for the Democratic party as they see their usual base of blue collar workers abandoning their extreme ideology. And they protect those illegals and the weakness of our immigration system at the cost of the very American citizens they were elected to serve, ignoring these facts:
43% of all mass shootings were committed by first or second generation immigrants
75 percent of those on the most wanted criminals list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens.
One quarter of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals, as are more than 40 percent of all inmates in Arizona and 48 percent in New Mexico jails.
Over 53 percent of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens.
Illegal alien gangs such as MS-13, Los Aztecas, Trinitarios, and Florencia 13 are all over the country. MS-13, mentioned in President Trump’s State of the Union Address has spread to 43 states, and Florencia 13 has made Los Angeles County the most dangerous county in the country.
Nor does the Left choose to fight evil. As columnist Dennis Prager relates, “With regard to fighting communism in the 20th century and today fighting radical Islamic terror and Islamist treatment of women, the Stalinist North Korean regime, the Holocaust-denying and Holocaust-planning theocracy of Iran, the Syrian mass murderers and the violent crime in America, the left is either silent or appeasing. And, of course, it works constantly to weaken the American military, the world’s greatest force against evil. But the left does direct its fighting spirit against Confederate statues, schools with the name of slave owners (including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson), carbon emissions, income inequality, “microaggressions,” “white privilege,” any limitation on abortion, Columbus Day, “Islamophobia,” Israeli settlements, “Russian collusion” and the like. Against these minimal or nonexistent evils, the left is ferocious.”
There are certainly many good and well-meaning Democrats around the country who must be dismayed by some of what their party now stands for, but who have been progressives for so long that they cannot see another option. I hope that soon they consider whether their sense of what is good and what is evil truly agrees with what their party claims is good and evil. Too long we have been told that we must accept everyone, recognize everyone’s rights, not condemn anyone. But I would remind Christian Democrats that the Bible warns in Matthew 7:20, “Wherefore by their fruits shall ye know them.” The fruit of the Left and the official Democratic Party becomes more and more rotten with every passing day.
Because the East and West coast elite who now run the Democratic Party live lives so different from our own, because they hop from bed to bed, marriage to marriage, spend their nights “clubbing” and “hooking up” with casual acquaintances, they scoff at suggestions of “morality” and instead promote the policy that anything goes. CBS recently even hyped the dating site Ashley Madison, which provides hook-ups for married individuals, praising them for adding 20,000 new members to the site every day. They concluded that we need to “rethink” the sin of adultery. In his novel, The Brothers Karamazov, Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, warned: “If there is no God, everything is permissible.” That is exactly where the Democratic Party is today.