The Democratic Party has, throughout their history, been generally bad for the United States and especially for the minority groups that they currently pretend to champion. Democrats were the party of slavery. When Republican President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Democrats instituted the Jim Crow laws that forced emancipated blacks to sit in the backs of buses, drink at designated water fountains, wait in segregated waiting rooms, attend black-only schools lest their “inferiority” somehow infect the southern whites among whom they lived. Democrats met the peaceful marches of Martin Luther King Jr. with dogs and heavy police batons. Democrats hung blacks or tied them behind their trucks and drove around on gravel roads until they were dead in order to teach uppity n****rs a lesson. “Don’t step out of line, don’t try to move out of your place in society, or we will kill you!”
Democrats opposed, fought tooth and nail against the Civil Rights Law, which Republicans passed over their angry objections. Even Democratic President, Lyndon Johnson told a senator, “These negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference” (Goodwin, Doris Kearn. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream). Robert MacMillan, an Air Force One Steward also recalls Johnson’s teenage daughter, Lucie tell him to go “Find my n***er!” (her servant), threatening to slap the Steward if he didn’t do as she said. President Johnson, himself a southerner from Texas, was eventually forced to sign the Civil Rights Law given the tenor of public opinion. Johnson was astute enough to see some good in passing such a bill over the disapproval of his party: He remarked to a couple of governors, “I’ll have those n***rs voting Democratic for 200 years!” (Kessler, Ronald. Inside the White House).
In the decades since President Johnson’s comment, Democrats have done all they can to ensure that blacks continue to vote Democratic. They quickly began to portray Republicans as anti-black, despite the fact that it has always been Republicans who have championed blacks and their equal rights with other Americans. But Democrats are great liars and Republicans tend to be naive, not wanting to boast of what they have done, instead expecting that their good works will speak for themselves. It reminds me of an incident I read in a book in high school. Naive American relief organizations would send food and medical supplies to countries in need with their name and U.S.A. stamped on the side of the crates. But as the crates were unloaded, agents paid by the Russians would past stickers covering up the U.S.A. with U.S.S.R. and those getting the help thought it was coming from the Russians, not the Americans. It is not truth but perception that matters!
Democrats began giving minorities, especially blacks, inexpensive or free things: subsidized housing which no one attempts to keep up; free school meals; food stamps to buy food unemployment insurance if you are fired from your job that is usually more money than you were earning while working; extra money for every child you have, especially if you are a single mother; free or greatly reduced medical insurance. They want to add free college, free money for every individual of working age whether you have tried to get a job or not, free healthcare for everyone. And anyone who actually has worked to get a decent job and earns enough to pay taxes, even if you are a member of a minority, are paying and will pay for every one of these Democratic programs.
Planned Parenthood, an organization that is dearly loved and devotedly supported by Democrats was begun by Margaret Sanger who had close ties to the Nazis and made comments such as “Birth control: to create a race of thoroughbreds” and “More children from the fit, less from the unfit. That is the chief aim of birth control” ( qtd. by Donald J. Aul from Margaret Sanger: Birth Control’s Succesful Revolutionary). “The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal,” she said. “We don’t want the word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” She also proudly spoke of the speech she gave before the women of the Ku Klux Klan. Is it any wonder that Planned Parenthood’s new president Leana Wen tweeted that “Our core mission is providing, protecting, and expanding access to abortionand reproductive health care” (qtd. by Tony Perkins in The Dailey Signal), and that the largest number of abortions are performed on black mothers followed by Hispanics? There are, according to the Wall Street Journal, thousands more black babies who are aborted than are born alive in New York City each year. Margaret Sanger would be proud!
In fact, these are all strategies to keep blacks “on the plantation” as many black writers themselves have argued. Their neighborhoods have become literal war zones. Children walk to poor schools that are unable to give them a decent education, facing the possibility of being killed in a drive-by shooting as they do so. Young children are recruited into gangs, threatened with death if they don’t join. Drug dealers are on every street corner and live among the people themselves. These are hell holes, supported by the Democratic mayors who run these cities.
Republicans want to require that those in subsidized housing who are able to work should go to school or find a job in order to keep their assistance. Democrats scream that grandma will be thrown out into the street, but that is, as usual, a lie meant to frighten voters into opposing such measures. But someone who gets an education and a job will soon be able to make more money than the government can give him/her and, along with more money, will find self-respect and the ability to move to a better neighborhood. President Trump’s Secretary of Education, Betsy De Voss is promoting vouchers that will allow parents to send their students to schools outside of the districts they live in which are safer and which offer a better education. In Washington D.C., for example, the majority of those making use of the vouchers to obtain a better education are blacks. But Democrats oppose this move, backed by the teachers’ unions, and many Democratically controlled cities and states will not allow vouchers to be used.
There was great rejoicing when President Barack Obama was elected in 2008 with his motto of “hope and change,” but though he was a black president (actually the dark skinned son of a white mother and a black father from Kenya), he did nothing to better the situation of blacks in this country. Instead, he created a divide between blacks and whites by claiming that any objection to his ultra-progressive policies was racist in nature—a personal attack on him because of his skin color rather than an ideological difference of opinion. Then he immediately took the side of every black man killed or harassed by a non-black without waiting to see what the actual facts of each case were. He supported and invited to the White House members of the Black Lives Matter movement, ignoring the fact that they openly called for the murder of police officers (“Pigs in a blanket. Fry ‘em up like bacon!”), and he supported the narrative that police officers deliberately killed innocent young black men, even though the statistics and the facts prove otherwise. Nor did he help those struggling blacks in cities like his own Chicago, Detroit, East St. Louis. In fact, his policies helped create a flagging economy that put even more blacks and other minorities out of work.
Luckily, President Trump actually does care about minorities as well as the rest of the forgotten and ignored people in the center of our country. His economic policies have created millions of jobs, so many jobs that there are more jobs than there are people looking for them. As for women, Hispanics, blacks—they all are experiencing lower unemployment than ever under this Republican administration.
The Democratic Party would have us believe that they care more for the poor, the minorities, even the inmates in prisons than do the Republicans, yet it was President Trump who signed a prison reform bill, not President Obama. And how is it that such benevolent, caring people who live in the Utopian Sanctuary Paradise that is California have streets littered with trash, human feces, and the homeless, dirty, hungry, hopeless. Where is that benevolence? Where is the kindness, the caring? Alas, the money that could house and feed these poor people is feeding and educating illegal aliens!
But the Democratic Party, which has never truly been a friend to Americans though some of them have honestly tried, has now turned to the Socialist Democrats who are really just Socialists, follows of Marxism, who wish to take from the rich in order to give to the poor. President Obama began preaching income equality, which sounded really good to some people. However, this idea of everyone being the same and having the same opportunities does not work and in fact is contrary to the natural order. We are not all the same. Skin color aside, we are not all as intelligent, we are not all as gifted in music or business or woodworking. If we looked at IQ scores, scores which reflect intelligence, on a bell curve, for example, we would find that roughly 10 percent of the population would have a score higher than 140, putting then into the genius category, and an equal percentage would have scores below 55, making them extremely cognitively impaired. The individual with the highest scores will be able to use his intelligence and skills to create companies like APPLE, Amazon, and Google. The individuals with the scores below 55 could never begin to do that. Why should those with the ability and who have expended the hard work not be able to enjoy the fruits of their labor? King Solomon writes in the book of Ecclesiastes “And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy all the good of his labor, it is the gift of God” (Ecclesiastes 3:13).
Income equality would take from those who have worked hard and give it to those who have not worked or are not able to earn as much in order to make everyone the same. It sounds good unless you have a job. Then think that your paycheck is going to be split with people who may choose not to work, who may not be able to hold down a job because of drug use, or may not have bothered to go to college or a trade school in order to advance themselves. You will work to clothe, feed, and house them instead of buying a new car, paying for music lessons for your child, or taking a vacation. Remember that already nearly half of the country doesn’t pay federal income taxes so you are already paying for their medicaid, their food stamps, their subsidized housing, and their unemployment.
We tried something similar in our school system a number of years ago. It was called “Outcome Based Education.” The “outcome” upon which everything was based was that no one failed. No one. Sounds good, doesn’t it? But in fact, it was an unmitigated disaster. If students didn’t do their homework, you kept waiting for it. If a child failed a test, you needed to give the test over again when he/she felt ready. If he got an A the second time, it carried the same weight as the student who got an A the first time. You can guess what happened. Tuesday night rolled around and there was a basketball game. But your students also had a test to study for. What to do? Easy. Go to the ballgame, go out with your friends afterwards, go home to bed and fail the test the next day. Then, study when you had time, retake the test and get your A! You can’t fail, so only study when or if you feel like it! It was the perfect system for most high school students except the very motivated. They felt cheated, and rightly so.
The biggest argument against the free everything of socialism (college, medical treatment, guaranteed salary) is the one pointed out by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Great Britain who wisely said, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.” And that is the crux of the problem. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) want to raise the top income tax bracket to 70% and then add a 3% tax for the wealthy.
Hank Adler wrote a column yesterday that explained what would happen to Jeffrey Bezos, the creator of Amazon under such a plan. He is reputed to be worth about $150 billion, but $131.8 billion of that is in the trading value of his Amazon stock. In order to pay the 3% wealth tax, he would have to get $3.95 billion from his Amazon stock by trading it or getting the company to pay him a dividend. But if he also lived in California, by the time he added his state and federal taxes to the Wealth tax, he would need a dividend of $23.23 billion in order to meet his full tax obligation. The company would then be required by law to pay dividends to all of their shareholders, except that they couldn’t afford to do that because the amount of dividends would greatly exceed their yearly income.
So, Bezos would have to sell his shares, about 20% of them to pay his taxes. How many years does it take to get to zero if you pay out 20% of your shares each year? Admittedly his liability would decrease as his wealth decreased, but eventually he would run out of money or at least run himself out of the “wealthy” class. That would happen to everyone. Then who pays for the free stuff? The middle class, who was already paying a large part of it because there just aren’t that many wealthy people around, would now have to pay it all and voilà! income equality would be achieved! We would all be poor. We would all be, like the Venezuelans, selling our blood, our mothers’ milk, or even our children to survive, and not having toilet paper much less food in our houses. Think it couldn’t happen? Ask someone from Venezuela, once the richest country in South America. Ask someone from Sweden who tried socialism, saw their economy sinking quickly, and abandoned socialism for capitalism again to regain their status as a rich nation. The Democrats and the Left once again care more for power than for the people. Keep us poor and needy and we will continue to vote for them as they promise us more free stuff!
The Democratic Party was the party of slavery, of Jim Crow laws, of turning dogs on peaceful Civil rights marchers and they have really not changed much. Now they keep minorities dependent in their large cities and seduce the unthinking with promises of free everything. And all the time, like the socialists of the past, they punish those who dare to express ideas contrary to their own. So far, groups like Antifa have only set cars on fire, broken windows, and beaten a few demonstrators, and the rest of the Left, the Democratic Party, and the mainstream media have driven conservatives out of restaurants, called them vile names, shamed many into apologies, and most recently, wrongly accused a group of innocent Catholic teenage boys of racism because many of them were wearing Make America Great Again caps. They tell us what we can do and say, what we can watch and read and listen to. That is truly socialism. It could as well be Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia before the killings started. And believe me, the killings will come we don’t fight back! If we do not stop them, they will destroy America and we will no longer be the shining city on a hill!