Democrats Have Become Extremists

English: Barack Obama delivering his electoral...

Answer this for me: were socialists or even communists able to take over our country and run the United States of America the way they want it run and the way that eliminates all the evil corporate greed and power-hungry capitalists, what would happen to all the bad guys? What would happen to those money and power-hungry folks who oppress the people and get no joy out of life unless they’ve stepped on the neck of some poor working man?

Would they all be put in jail? Would they all change their ways? Would harmony reign over this wonderful land with all people living in the same modest homes, eating the same modest meals, riding in the same ecological buses and trains?

If you answered “Yes”, your are dismissed. You can leave now because you are maddeningly naive and incapable of intelligent thought.

If you’re still with me…the answer to the above repeated questions is that all the ambitious high productivity, high income, corporate leaders in our society would not go anywhere. They would stay exactly where they are enjoying the same type of lavish lifestyle they currently have earned. Read George Orwell’s “Animal Farm“.

Cover of "Animal Farm: Centennial Edition...

Cover of Animal Farm: Centennial Edition

Remember how the pigs took over the farm and when questioned about their authority and lack of equal treatment the lead pig arrogantly said “Some of us are more equal than others.”. The point they were making is even in a socialist society where everyone is supposed to be treated equally, they aren’t. Ultimately, you have leaders and you have those they lead. Those that lead society don’t change because of the type of government structure, or economic system. The human qualities that drive someone to the top and to a position of leadership and high income, in most cases, will drive them to the top in a socialist or communist system to. You will still have rich and poor. Only in a socialist system you’ll have more poor and the gap separating those on top from those on the bottom will be wider.

How do I know this? Just look at the Communist regimes of the 20th Century. Look at China today. China has fabulous wealth for some of its people. They all happen to reside in the more Capitalistic big cities of China. But outside of Beijing, and Hong Kong there is staggering poverty. China’s a 19th Century agrarian society outside the big cities.

Hong Kong Slums

Hong Kong Slums (Photo credit: Ray Devlin)

America seems as divided now as ever. I was only a small child in the 1960s and have no personal memory of it. It’s safe to say THAT time was worse. But since the 1960s no time has seen such a complete divide in where American people now look at each other.

And I think the problem is the Democratic party has been taken over by radical, extremist and the sooner the more moderate voices recognize this fact the sooner we can expect our government to serve our needs and their responsibilities. Because now, nothing is being done.

Democrats adopted a platform at their National Convention in Charlotte that contained no mention of God or of a Divine power for the first time in the party’s history. Realizing the massive political error this represented those in charge of the party (i.e. President Obama) pushed through a change in wording amendment to the platform that as you can see in this video was not what the majority of Democrats wanted:

Repeated surveys show only 5-10% of Americans call themselves either atheist or agnostic. But it seems they wield considerable influence in the Democratic party.

Gay marriage has been on the ballots in elections in 22 states nationwide. It’s lost every single time. And yet, the Democratic Party has it in their platform that they support Gay marriage. Pro Gay marriage extremists wield considerable influence in the Democratic Party.

American’s overwhelmingly agree that business owners and entrepreneurs “built it themselves”, and are responsible for creating and running their own companies. But DNC speakers included Massachusetts Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren who started the argument which President Obama carried to national attention by disputing the idea that business owners are in fact harder working, and at times smarter than others, and that they did build it themselves. And yet anti-business, pro-government extremists wield considerable influence in the Democratic Party.

Half of everyone in America is below average in intelligence. That’s a mathematical fact. We are not all equal in intelligence. And I believe, as do many others, that business owners, for the most part, come from the population occupying the upper half of the intelligence scale.

 

Most Americans oppose the Occupy Wall Street movement according to every poll ever taken on the subject. Not our President, or many Democrats. Of the mere 37% who said they support the anti-business group 64% say their Democrats. Only 14% say they’re Republicans. And so Occupy Wall Street protesters wield a considerable amount of influence in the Democratic Party.

The Democrats are the Pro-Choice party and adopted a plank on their platform that states their support for the Roe vs Wade Supreme Court Ruling allowing unlimited abortion on demand. And what’s even worse is now Democrats say that all contraceptives need to be provided to all women for free. Here’s the problem: most Americans are Pro-Life. According to a May 2012 Gallup poll 51% of us identify ourselves as Pro-Life. Or put another way, 51% believe in protecting the life of the human being who has not yet been born. The same poll shows that the fewest number of Americans ever identify themselves as Pro-Choice.

The Democrats have no one but themselves to blame for turning America against them on the abortion issue. Why? Extremism. Like I said. Extremists have taken over America’s oldest political party. Rather than accept or negotiate reasonable limits on abortion Democrats have adopted the all-or-nothing approach. A huge percentage of Americans don’t believe in late-term abortions. But Democrats fight to keep it legal everywhere it’s challenged. A majority of Americans believe in parental notification should a minor want an abortion. Democrats oppose even that. And four times while in the Illinois legislature Barack Obama voted to allow doctors to kill babies that survived unsuccessful abortions. Most Americans not only oppose this procedure, most Americans are appalled by such a practice. And yet pro-abortion extremists wield considerable influence in the Democratic Party.

And in 2008 Democrats nominated, and Americans elected a U.S. Senator with the most extreme Liberal voting record in the entire upper chamber of our Congress. And Barack Obama wields a considerable amount of influence in the Democratic Party.

Like I said. Extremist. Here’s hoping the more moderate voices grow a spine and start shouting down the far-left influences within the oldest Political Party in the country so that it more closely resembles the reasonable values of those who came before like Kennedy, Truman, Jefferson, et al. They can do it November 6th.

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When Does a Life Begin Having Rights?

The artificial argument created by the Obama Re-Election Administration(and Yes I termed them that way intentionally) over women’s birth control has gained more steam than I dreamed possible. Democrats like Nancy Pelosi have termed this artificial, non-existent fight the Republican’s War on Women.

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I am seldom surprised by the gullibility of the American electorate, but must admit this time, I’m dumbfounded. Obama and his minions have successfully managed to divide and enrage people with reasonable and differing views where mostly quiet co-existence had existed for the past 50 years.

Are Conservatives actively trying to impede women’s access to birth control? Puhhhhleeeezzz! If you believe so show some balls. Comment on this blog and tell us all where those impediments exist.

Prevention Park, is the largest Planned Parent...

Prevention Park, is the largest Planned Parenthood administrative and medical facility in the nation. It also serves as the headquarters for 12 clinics, located in Houston, Texas (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Trying to de-fund Planned Parenthood, you say? That is more about cutting wasteful government spending and abortion than it is about contraception. And Planned Parenthood would not cease to exist were the Federal Government gifts to their operating budget cut off. PP can and would continue to receive generous private donations. In fact, it could be argued that their revenue would actually grow from empowered liberals coming to the rescue of this liberal iconic venue.

Liberals: your next ploy would be to throw up Catholics resistance and outrage to the Obama Health and Human Service Administration’s birth control mandate. This mandate was announced in January after a GOP Presidential debate in which

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George Stephanopulos

ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos shocked the world and Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney

Mitt and Ann Romney on December 22, 2007, at a...

Mitt and Ann Romney

by asking the seemingly illogical, and uncalled for question “Can state’s disallow health care plans from offering contraception coverage?” Romney correctly pointed out that nobody wants to block contraception coverage. And he said it again, and again and again because Stephanopoulos kept asking; clearly indicating his mission from Democratic headquarters. Catholics righteous condemnation of the HHS mandate is totally and completely about religious freedom, not contraception. Were Catholic Church employees not able to have contraception paid for by their employer-provided health care plan they would not be denied contraception. They would merely be denied having contraception paid for, in part or in whole, by a Catholic Church that views it as a grave sin.

For the record I am telling YOU any of YOU who continue to argue that there is a Republican War on Women and a woman’s “right” to contraception that you are either stupid, impossibly ill-informed, or so hateful and bias in your political views that intelligent discussion with you is pointless. Move on. Don’t talk to me.

I find the whole subject remarkable in its divisiveness. Fifty years after creation of “the pill” and forty years after Roe vs. Wade this country won’t allow itself a sensible middle ground on reproductive rights because neither political side is willing to budge from their extreme positions; positions the vast majority of this country find unacceptable. Pro-Choice advocates want abortion on demand up to and including the partial birth of a living human baby. In other words they continue to advocate infanticide for convenience purposes. Outrageous!

Nearly, but not quite, as outrageous is the Pro-Life position that life begins at conception; that a fertilized egg represents life. Take that fertilized egg out of the womb and see how long it lives, and by what means its given nutrition. Answer those questions and you clearly don’t have life without the woman, the mother. Thus her rights remain paramount.

Neither Pro-life nor Pro-Choice can agree on what seems abundantly obvious to me. Life begins neither at conception, nor at birth, but somewhere in between. And since we’re talking about a LIFE, an individual, and all the God-given and Constitutional rights there-in bestowed upon that individual and the Federal Government’s required protection of that individual’s rights; shouldn’t we error on the side of protecting that life?

If a Pro-choice advocate says that a crying, wiggling baby not more than sixty seconds into the open air from their mother’s birth canal is Constitutionally protected and given rights under our Federal Constitution but that same PERSON had zero rights 61-seconds earlier…that’s just plain and simply unacceptable both logically, morally, and legally.

The great statesman Patrick Henry correctly noted “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.” So restraining a woman’s right to control her own reproduction system should only be imposed when those rights infringe upon the rights of another whose rights also deserve protecting.

So, though I’m Catholic,

Constitution of the United States of America

Constitution of the United States of America

I acknowledge we are not a theocracy and Catholics can’t impose their beliefs on the populace any more than Muslims can or should. Therefore contraception is and should always remain available. So should abortion up until its determined when life begins.

When life begins is a question beyond my pay grade, to use a phrase made famous by Barrack Obama when he successfully dodged the same question during the 2008 Presidential race. But any idiot can agree it occurs well before a natural, healthy birth following a nine month pregnancy.

Unlike other posts of mine I broach this dangerous subject not for the purpose of starting debate but with the sincere hope of ending it. Let logic and reason, not religion or emotion prevail.

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