The Democrat party's lurid lurch to the socialist left
In the post, The closing of the liberal mind and the globalist agenda, I commented that:
I grew up a liberal Democrat. I couldn't help it - that was just the environment in which I was raised.
Back in the late 1980's I realized that the Democratic party no longer represented my core values and interests - they had sold out, just as the Republican party has sold out to big business interests. Both parties want open borders, no matter what the impact on Americans and America's future.
I'm a conservationist and a conservative. I believe it important to halt America's population growth - and indeed, all countries should do so. No country can grow indefinitely within the constraints of finite national borders and finite natural resources.
I believe it important to conserve and preserve America's Constitutional Republic. It amazes me that the Democrat party doesn't. They have dramatically and openly moved to the far left in an overt embrace of socialism.
The following article does an excellent job of explaining how the liberal voter base and the Democrat party have embraced socialism. It portrays what patriots and conservatives are up against in the America. I suspect there's a parallel of some sort with the dire situation in Europe.
Who’s Afraid of Socialism?, by Christopher Roach, American Greatness, February 11, 2019:
... Younger Voters Don’t Remember the Socialism of the USSR
For Baby Boomer Republicans, fear of socialism is entirely natural. During the Cold War of their youth, the Soviet Union was the major force of socialism in the world. While the regime captured the imagination of many Western intellectuals, most Americans found its impoverishment, drabness, and political oppression anathema. ...
Critiques of the Democrats’ turn towards socialism have the melody of mere nostalgia. The Berlin Wall came down in 1989, and the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. Many Generation X and most Millennial voters do not remember the Cold War. ...
A neutral disposition to socialism also holds true for many immigrants and their children. In countries such as China, India, or even Mexico, socialism is not a dirty word. These countries have their own political traditions, often with Communist and socialist parties serving openly and prominently. ...
When younger supporters of socialism imagine examples, they think of Western European countries, where free college education and health care are the norm, and there are fewer visible signs of social disorder and inequality, like the insane homeless people who roam the streets of America’s cities. They dismiss the Soviet example as an aberration....
Continuing high levels of personal debt, the pain of the 2008 recession, widening inequality, and the concentration of wealth and power among a class of American oligarchs have made the prospect of individual economic progress more uncertain....
Previously, intergenerational economic mobility functioned as a safety valve. The prospect of future advances made diminished circumstances in the present bearable. We all know of doctors and professionals whose parents and grandparents worked as janitors, seamstresses, factory workers, and farmers. Today, this appears to be less common....
The polling data shows that socialism’s appeal is at an all-time high. A 2018 Gallup poll reported that 57 percent of Democrats “now view socialism positively . . . .” The same study notes that young people in particular have a positive view of socialism,...
The real problem with Ocasio-Cortez is the racial politics at the heart of her economics. With her, as with Obama, there is a thread of resentment and revenge aimed at legacy America in all of her policies and rhetoric....
The Left calls ordinary policies—immigration control, tax cuts, and arresting criminals—racist and evil. Instead of rejecting this ever-expanding concept of racism as the summum bonum of politics, most Republicans jump to the same tune. ...
The freshman congresswoman’s economic policies are not separate from this ideology; they are designed to help these “ascendant” groups by harming legacy groups: rural Americans, whites, men, and those employed in the private sector. Calling her a socialist is not enough, because socialism promises to benefit her core constituencies. Republicans must face the fact that their voters are in the crosshairs of these plans....
The Democrats are the real racists. And they are socialists. But their racism today is directed almost solely at white Americans, and their ad hoc socialist policies are fueled by this race-hatred. ...
Note that the article identifies white Americas as the targets of Democrat leftism. That's true. But the overarching issue is that white Americans embody the founding principles of our Constitutional Republic. And those are the ultimate target of the left.
When Liberals Were For Sensible Policies on the Environment, Immigration, and Advancing the National Interest, the Social Contract, Winter 2019 issue.
Liberalism sure isn't what it used to be, by Fred Elbel, January 22, 2017.
The movie Hillary's America is a real eye-opener, by Fred Elbel, August 4, 2016.
The Political Spectrum, CAIRCO.
Fascism - a phenomenon of the left, CAIRCO.
