Democrat Party has radically changed
Published 8:19 am Wednesday, November 20, 2019
To the Editor:
On November 22 every year we remember the death of one of our presidents. He supported having a strong military and believed it was the only way to deter America’s enemies. He said cutting taxes was the best way to grow the economy. He firmly opposed racial quotas. He was against unrestricted abortions. Lastly, he was one of eight U.S. presidents who was a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association (NRA). From his political positions what party did he belong to? Clearly most would say the Republican Party. They would be wrong. The answer is: Democrat President John F. Kennedy. When elected president in 1960, Kennedy’s views and political position were considered mainstream in the Democratic Party. While the Kennedy name is still popular by Democrats today, the policies and positions he supported aren’t. Larry Elder said, “Today, if a Democrat advocated the positions on race, taxes, foreign policy, guns and abortion our 35th president once did, he wouldn’t be a Democrat. He’d belong to the other party.” As you can see the Democrat Party has radically changed and isn’t your grandfather’s Democrat Party.
As President Ronald Reagan, America’s 40th president, who was a Democrat much of his life, said, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.” Dennis Prager said most people are confused between liberal and leftist. Today’s Democrats are leftist not liberal. While liberals want a bigger government, liberals like conservatives never opposed capitalism. Opposition to capitalism and support of socialism are left-wing positions of today’s Democrat party. Liberals like conservatives believe in the nation-state and want to protect American sovereignty and borders. Prager said, “Because the left Democrats divide the world by class rather than by national identity, the left has always opposed nationalism.” Conservatives and liberal support free speech. Prager said, “the left (Democrats) is leading the first widespread suppression of free speech in modern American history.” The left claims to only oppose “hate speech.” However they deem “hate speech” any speech that disagrees with them. President Kennedy said, “ask not what your county can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Today’s Democrats support socialism and many say, “vote for a living don’t work for a living.”
The Democrat National Committee (DNC) just made a historic decision to celebrate the values of religiously unaffiliated (secularists) Americans as the largest religious group within the Democratic Party explaining; religiously unaffiliated Americans overwhelmingly share Democratic Party values and have been subject to unfair bias and exclusion in society. The Democrat controlled U.S. House of representatives removed from committee oaths the words, “So help me God.” The Democrats pasted The Equality Act which if it becomes law will make LGBTQ rights the highest rights in America and cause Christians to be persecuted. There’s a distinct Biblical word in Psalms 14 for those secularists who disavow the existence of God: “The fool has said in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good!”
D.D. Nave
Elizabethton