Reading Rick Bannan’s well-written but misleading article, “Democratic candidates ask for ‘just debate’” (The Reflector, August 8, 2018), I could only shake my head and feel sorry for old-school Democrats who really don’t know that their party has been taken over by militant activists.
My parents, now deceased, were both lifelong Democrats but my Dad, a strong union man, concluded near the end of his life, “these Democrats just want more government power and more government control over our lives!”
He was finally right.
Contrary to the article’s title, there is nothing “Democratic” about the Democrat party. They have become a group of “enlightened” elitists, convinced that concentrating centralized power in a few of their all-knowing hands — rather than keeping it dispersed through three strictly limited branches of government and in the hands of citizens through Constitutional principles — will bring about their utopian goals of one-world “equality,” peace, love and world citizenship.
If they can’t win at the ballot box, they’ll use the courts, media, public education and Hollywood to coerce the unwary.
A strong, sovereign, exceptional America is actually distasteful to them.
Sublime confidence in their “just” cause makes these party true-believers truly dangerous.
Convinced of their “superior” ideology and their pure goals, they become enraged when anyone dares to oppose or counter their chanted arguments.
Witness the actual attacks on conservatives, notoriously encouraged by top Democrat leaders such as Congresswoman Maxine Waters:
Physically attacking Charlie Kirk and Candace Owen (a black woman) for daring to go to breakfast in public.
Violence and property destruction by Democrat-supported groups across the bridge in Portland are notorious. On August 8 in Florida a Democrat man drove to a conservative’s home and shot him, for disagreeing on Facebook.
And let’s not forget Congressman Steve Scalise, gunned down and nearly killed on a baseball diamond by an angry Democrat.
These are the “just debates” we see from the “tolerant, civil, inclusive” Democrat party.
Sadly, media instinctively help them with their finger-pointing.
Who determines who a “right-wing” person or group is?
Am I “right-wing” because I prize my First and Second Amendment Freedoms, because I stand for our Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Flag, or because I believe that it is a genocide when 65 Million innocent little girls and boys are killed through abortion?
Am I a racist when I observe and remark on NFL players who kneel on the field, but remain silent and absent when 72 Chicagoans are shot, dozens killed in one weekend?
Am I a misogynist when I note that president Bill Clinton behaved horribly toward women and is still excused?
I have worked with Ambassador Alan Keyes; I supported Herman Cain’s presidential bid; I have held hands, sung hymns and worked with Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King.
False labels, false equivalences and false Democrat pleas for a “just debate” — all from their supposed moral high ground — are just plain insulting.
