In the past the Democrat Party has prided itself on being the Party of women, of minorities, and of the working class, protecting their rights against the evil Republican Party of the Wealthy Business Class. Yet, history tells a very different story.
The Republican Party was created in order to fight slavery and to prevent its incursion into new states in the Union. Republicans continued to fight for the rights of Black Americans through the Civil War where thousands of Northern white Americans gave their lives to end the despicable practice of slavery. Following the Civil War, “Republicans in Congress proposed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution that granted the newly freed slaves freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote, respectively. Several civil rights acts were also passed in an attempt to protect the freedom of the freed population,” (“The Civil Rights Act of 1964” Library of Congress, loc.gov).
Sadly, although the bills would never have passed had it not been for Republicans in Congress, because President Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat, signed the bills into law, recognizing its political ramifications, black Americans have given the credit to Democrats ever since. Johnson, who was known for blunt speaking and frequent racist comments, smugly told two governors aboard Air Force One in reference to the 1964 bill, “I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for 200 years,” as reported by author Ronald Kessler in his 1995 book, Inside the White House, (Did LBJ Say, intellectualtakeout.org).
Today, Black Americans continue to be “on the plantation” in major Democratic-run cities, as they are forced to live in low rent areas, many of them one parent households, many on welfare and SNAP. The streets are overrun with gangs, drugs, and violence. The schools are failing to educate the children, causing generation after generation to follow the same pattern of welfare, crime, drugs, early death. But while Republicans have tried to encourage School Choice, where parents could choose to send their children to schools outside the districts in which they live, Democrats firmly block such efforts whenever possible. Where Republicans support the police and law and order, Democrats defund the police and release arrested criminals without bail to offend again. And offend they do! Democrats promise great things to the black community in every election cycle, but they never follow through. Yet, Johnson’s prediction was spot on. Most black Americans continue to vote Democrat over and over again. Still, little by little black Americans are recognizing that any hope for real change comes from the Republicans and moving to the right.
The fastest changing minority group, however, is that of Latinos. They are realizing that the values of the Republican party— a love of this country, the belief that hard work will allow you to succeed, a desire to secure the southern border, a fervent belief in God, and a strong traditional family with father and mother present — are the very values that they themselves hold. The Democrats, on the other hand, distain America, tell minorities that white Americans will prevent them from succeeding no matter how hard they try, encourage the onslaught of more illegal aliens, generally ignore God if they believe in Him at all, and push all kinds of non-traditional “family” units as being the new norm. Thus, Latinos are moving to the Republican Party in growing numbers.
It does not help Democrats, that their most outspoken leaders and activists are white, suburban or upper-class elites, who find it impossible and unnecessary to understand the struggles of those who serve them dinner or cut their grass. Once the party of the working man, they still support the unions, but the day of unions is gone by the wayside. Where once they were needed to insure safe working conditions and fair wages, laws exist which ensure much of that. Instead, unions now require high dues payments from members that go almost exclusively into the coffers of Democrat candidates, and they seem more concerned with their political connections than with the welfare of their members. When given the option, most workers now opt out of joining unions.
Democrats in the 21st century have loved to decry Republicans as the Party that was waging a war against women. Yet, a look at what the Democrats and Republicans stand for tells a very different story. Democrats would allow a man who “feels” he is a woman, or who is taking hormones to transition to a woman (as if such were possible) to share restrooms, locker rooms, even prisons with biological women and girls. How is it protecting girls and women’s rights to force them to have a naked man with his penis hanging out parading in front of them? That used to be against the law! Republicans, unlike the Democrats, want to protect women from men and transgender women, who remain biologically male. Women and girls, they believe, should be able to have their own restrooms and locker rooms. It is their right. One which Democrats would take away from them.
Likewise, Democrats would put transgender women and girls (biological males) on sports teams, even though it has already been proven that women and girls cannot compete against them. Lia Thomas, for example, according to fellow swimmers at Penn State, went from #462 in the men’s NCAA division to the NCAA Champion in the women’s division, hardly fair for the women forced to swim against him or lose their scholarships at Penn State. Even Caitlyn Jenner claimed Lia was not the actual winner, saying “It’s not transphobic or anti-trans, it’s common sense!”
Republicans, on the other hand, wish to preserve women’s sports for women. When I was in high school, boys played on teams against other schools before their parents and girls played in the GAA (Girls’ Athletic Association) mostly against each other, although occasionally against the GAA from other schools. It wasn’t until the 1970s that girls began to have their own teams and play before spectators, although even today, the WNBA, the Women’s National Basketball Association, doesn’t draw nearly the crowds that the NBA does. It has been a struggle for women’s sports to have been recognized and for women to have been able to compete and excel, and Republicans wish to protect what women have fought so long and hard to win. Republicans want women’s sports ONLY for biological women.
Democrats, who for decades were viewed as the party of the working class, has become the party of the rich and affluent. Movie stars, CEOs, west and east coast city dwellers, these are the core of the Democrat Party and they are snobs who distain the remainder of America. If you did not attend an Ivy League school, if you do not live in an affluent white suburb, if your parents don’t rub shoulders with the rich and famous, you are beneath their notice. Much like the peasants of France and of Russia before their revolutions, it is almost as if you do not exist. Just before the Revolution, French Queen Marie Antoinette, when told that the people of Paris were starving because bread was not available in the city is (probably erroneously) quoted as having said, “Then let them eat cake!” Our Democrat “betters,” responding to Americans faced with rising gas prices which the Democrats themselves created, tossed us a cavalier “Let them buy electric cars!” The attitude is the same. The lack of understanding, the total indifference to the plight of the people whose welfare they are responsible for is exactly the same.
Do I anticipate a revolution in America? I do not. At least not one in which we, the middle and lower classes take up our arms (of which we have plenty) against the government. But I do see a growing resentment and anger that will continue to be felt at the polls, as more and more ordinary Americans see that it is not Democrats but rather Republicans who are the Party of Women and minorities and the everyday American!