The Character of the Democratic Party

The history of the Democratic Party is not pretty. Born as a pro-slavery political party under Thomas Jefferson, the Democratic Party maintained a pro-slavery-anti black American stance through the 19th century. After the Civil War, the Democratic Party gave birth and nurtured the first Klu Klux Klan and supported Jim Crow laws and customs.
The second Klu Klux Klan emerged in 1915, during the first administration of Woodrow Wilson. During the first half of the 20th century,. after the Black migration to northern cities, Democratic administrations still kept Blacks “in their place,” creating the equivalent of plantation ghettos.

Progressive Woodrow Wilson, Democrat icon, was an unrepentant racist, lamenting the loss of the antebellum South as he entered the White House in 1913. While telling Black Americans they could count on Wilson for a “fair deal,” Wilson desegregated the desegregated the United States Navy and the United States Government, removing Black officials from their positions. In fact, Wilson’s “History of the American People” was so racially biased that D.W. Griffith quoted Wilson’s comments in the racist silent movie “Birth of a Nation.”

As Black slaves were huddled in shacks on plantations, a majority of today’s Black Americans still are kept isolated and segregated in poor sections of major cities. Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit all have large, segregated populations of Black Americans. All these cities are run by Democrat administrations.
In addition, the progressive-socialist thinking from the turn of the century looked cheaply at life, especially American Blacks. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and birth control, was a major proponent of Black abortions and the use of eugenics against minorities.
Franklin Roosevelt, the “modern progressive,” who actually admired some aspects of National Socialism, not only interned Japanese citizens, removing them from the coast, but also appointed two notorious segregationists to the United States Supreme Court: Jimmy Byrnes and Hugo Black, the latter being a member of the Klu Klux Klan.

Roosevelt admitted his admiration of Stalin and Hitler, stating: “what we are doing in this country were some of the things that were being done in Russia and even some things that were being done under Hitler in Germany. But we were doing them in an orderly way.”[1]
Roosevelt’s attitude toward Black Americans was exemplified by his refusal to integrate the United States Military. Roosevelt further insisted on segregating the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps.

The turning point for civil rights and for Black Americans occurred in during the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican: the 1957 Civil Rights Act, which led to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act was signed by President Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat, but it was the coalition of Republicans in Congress, especially the Senate that allowed the bill to pass. Senator Everett Dirksen, Republican minority leader, provided the votes for cloture that led to the bill’s vote and passage. Against the bill were numerous Democrats, to include former Klu Klux Klan lead Robert Byrd and Al Gore Sr. Only 77% of Democrats but 82% of Republicans voted for the bill.

Since the passage of this historic legislation, the character of the Democratic Party, increasingly controlled by progressive-socialist activists, has changed for the worse. As a result of Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968, the numbers of Black race exploiters and outright Black racists increased. I call them “drivers,” as that was the name of Black overseers on plantations. These “drivers” kept Black populations “in line” and under the thumb of the Democratic Party bosses.

It was during this period that the character of the Democratic Party changed for the worse. The press became evermore biased in their reporting, precipitating the death spiral of modern journalism. The progressive-socialist faction of the Democratic Party has made it fashionable for Democrats to hate Christianity.

David Brooks wrote a column in 2003 regarding this irrational hatred: “When conservatives look at the newspapers, they see liberal columnists who pick out every tiny piece of evidence or pseudo-evidence of Republican vileness, and then dwell on it and obsess over it until they have lost all perspective and succumbed to fevers of incoherent rage . . . It's mystifying. Fury rarely wins elections. Rage rarely appeals to suburban moderates. . . The Democrats, indeed, look like they're turning into a domestic version of the Palestinians--a group so enraged at their perceived oppressors, and so caught up in their own victimization, that they behave in ways that are patently not in their self-interest, and that are almost guaranteed to perpetuate their suffering.”

Yet, the progressive-scocialist faction of the Democrat Party rages on, spewing hatred at every opportunity. Brian Anderson of the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal wrote: “It's hard not to notice that political discussion over the last decade has increasingly degenerated into name-calling—and that the insults most often come from the left: "racist," "homophobe," "sexist," "mean-spirited," "insensitive." It has become a habit of left-liberal political argument to use such invective to dismiss conservative beliefs as if they don't deserve an argument and to redefine mainstream conservative arguments as extremism and bigotry. . .” And this was his introductory paragraph! But he was right when he wrote this article in 2001.

John Dietrich of the American Thinker captured the irrational hatred of progressive-socialist Democrats in his article, “Liberal Hate Speech:”

“Liberals can demonize entire classes of people. One of the favorite targets of the liberal elite is the Christian right. According to Michael Weisskopf of the Washington Post, the followers of people like the late Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson ‘are largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command’. . . Chris Matthews has declared, ‘The group in this country that most resembles the Taliban, ironically, is the religious right.’ Rosie O'Donnell asserted, ‘radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America.’ This demonization makes it permissible to say some pretty outlandish things. . . . Sen. Ted Kennedy gave this description of Republicans: ‘The Republican Party is basically anti-civil rights, anti-immigration, anti-women, and anti-worker.’ Howard Dean, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, stated, ‘I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.’ Jesse Jackson after the 1994 GOP victory claimed that ‘[h]ate and hurt are on a roll in America. If what was happening here was happening in South Africa, it'd be called racist apartheid. If it was happening in Germany, we'd call it Nazism. And in Italy, we'd call it fascism. Here we call it conservatism.’”

Actress Janeane Garofalo, certainly not a gleaming example of left intelligentsia, stated, “What you have now is people that are closet racists, misogynists, homophobes, and people who love . . . the politics of exclusion identifying as conservative."

The cumulative effects of Democratic hate speech have parallels in Nazi hate speech and propaganda in the 1930s and 1940s. Comparing the Christians to the Taliban and associated problems is analogous to Hitler blaming the Jews for Germany’s problems. Adolf Hitler rounded up Jewish people and sent them to extermination camps. The Democrats are more sophisticated: they passed legislation making people more dependent on government; they passed legislation interfering with the Doctor-Patient relationship and reducing the level of care; and, they passed legislation allowing unelected bureaucrats to deny needed health care based on who and how old you are.

The underlying character of the progressive-socialist faction of the Democratic Party is demonization of opponents based on lies and misinformation. It is based on bald-faced lies to constituents. President Obama said his health care bill would lower health care costs but costs are rapidly increasing. In response, the Obama administration threatened health plans that increased prices in response to federally mandated “free” benefits and elimination of limits. This reaction is no different from that of a Nazi or Fascist. It is still illegal thuggery.

As long as the progressive-socialist faction controls the Democratic Party, this organization cannot be trusted with America’s national security, financial security and our children’s future. The 2010 election is more important than ever.

[1] Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism – The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, (New York: Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, 2007), p. 122.