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The Patriot Post - Alexander's Column 7-25-2018
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The Patriot Post® · The 'New Face' of the Democrat Party?
By Mark Alexander · Jul. 25, 2018 · https://patriotpost.us/alexander/57330-the-new-face-of-the-democrat-party
“We must make our election between economy and Liberty, or profusion and servitude.” —Thomas Jefferson (1816)
The Democrat Party announced its 2018 election motto: “For the People1,” apparently an ironic excerpt from Republican Abe Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address2, which referred to “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
Ironic, I note, because while Lincoln is credited with having emancipated our nation’s slaves, Democrats have spent the last half-century enslaving poor urban blacks on the poverty plantations of their so-called “Great Society3.” Indeed, Democrats have a long and sordid record of masterful hypocrisy4.
Given their latest efforts to transform a once-noble party5 into the Socialist Democrat Party6, their motto would more appropriately be “For the People’s Republic.”
The weedy seeds of socialism were mostly dormant until the election of Barack Obama7, who, along with his sidekick Hillary Clinton8, cultivated those seeds and, in protest to the 2016 election of Donald Trump9, are now seeing them sprout around the country.
The net result is, predictably, that fewer Democrats are proud to be American10 and more are identifying11 with the anti-American tenets of socialism being propagated by the Left. The contrast between Republican optimism and Democrat pessimism has rarely been so starkly defined12.
The 2016 emergence of socialist Bernie Sanders13, himself a card-carrying member of the rich and famous14 leftists, is a testament to the “success” of the ultra-radicalization of our political discourse over Obama’s tenure. And, consequently, the Demos have unleashed a beast that they will have difficulty taming.
On Sanders’s coattails comes the surprise rise of the socialist darling de jour, 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez15, after the Millennial’s shocking upset16 of 10-term Demo incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in New York’s 14th congressional district.
Crowley, the fourth-ranking House Democrat, was at the head of the line to succeed House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and he led Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, by 35 points two weeks ahead of the primary. But in a district with almost 215,000 active registered Democrats, only 13% turned out, and that tiny subset gave Cortez a 4,163-vote win over Crowley — 57% to 42%.
So energized were Cortez’s “useful idiots17” that she also won the Reform Party’s write-in primary (among a field of 22 candidates) in the neighboring 15th congressional district of Democratic incumbent Rep. Jose Serrano. Fortunately, she can’t occupy two seats at once.
Leftist DNC Chief Tom Perez immediately declared18 that Cortez “represents the future of our party,” thus displacing Maxine Waters19 as yesterday’s arbiter of the Democrat Party’s future.
But Cortez is just the latest manifestation of the socialism deniers20 who have infested the Democrat Party.
The Sanders/Cortez duo is obviously a play for idealistic (read: “uninformed”) Millennial voters21 who can then be rolled into general election campaigns. But is she something more, given that all the hate-filled Demo rhetoric has stirred up a broader spectrum of their base? There is a surge in young voters, who now account for 61% of new voter registrations22.
One thing is certain, however: Cortez is no smarter than her nescient national fan base, as a brief video montage of her remarks23 reveals.
Declaring, “Call me a socialist; I don’t give a d—n,” Cortez offered this insight on why socialism is best: “When we talk about democratically socialist economies, first of all, they’re done with the full input of everybody. You vote. It’s democratic. So if something is not a good idea, it doesn’t get voted for, ideally.”
Actually, that’s the definition of a “dumbocracy.” Apparently she doesn’t realize that the subjugated masses in Red China and the former USSR also “voted” for their tyrannical communist regimes. The fact is, “democratic socialism” is nothing more than communism lite24, and the consequences are the same.
Cortez says, “For me, democratic socialism is about — really … no person in America should be too poor to live.” But she can’t name a country where socialism has been successful, and democratic socialism will ensure that all people in America are “too poor to live.”
She dodges questions about Sanders’s socialist paradise, Venezuela25, where statism has degraded what was once a wealthy country into a cesspool26 of corruption where 90% of the people now live in utter poverty and starvation is rampant.
On her advocacy for socialism27, she insists, “I do think that, absolutely, capitalism was the most efficient and best economy, perhaps, for the time that it was at, perhaps. … Ultimately we are marching towards [socialism]. I do think that we are going to see an evolution in our economic system of an unprecedented degree.”
Her abjectly ignorant claim28 about jobs — “Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs. Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely feed their family.” — won her the “Liar Pants on Fire29” rating from the leftist “fact-checkers” at PolitiFact.
The less-than-erudite Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) also lit her pants on fire by doubling down30 on Cortez’s myth, telling a national audience that most Americans have “two, three, or four jobs to try to pay the rent and keep food on the table.” Challenged on her socialist credentials, Warren responded, “I am a capitalist. Come on! I believe in markets!”
Of course, economic illiteracy is a staple of Demo Party socialists such as DNC Deputy Chairman Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), who believes that open borders will lead to prosperity31 and that undermining American wages will result in prosperity. |
