
(first published in North State Journal 3/13/19)
There may still be a few
Democrats left who believe they are part of the Old Democratic Party of JFK,
RFK and Henry “Scoop” Jackson.
They might want to stop watching
the news then.
The daily news coming out of
Washington, DC is saturated with the latest pronouncement from freshman
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about how to turn the United States of
America into the Socialist State of America. Freshman Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar regularly
spews out blatantly anti-Semitic remarks about Jews and Israel. Erstwhile
Democratic-presidential-candidate-but-you-know-he-really-is-a-Socialist Senator
Bernie Sanders keeps pushing for another new impossible-to-pay-for-program he wants
the government, meaning you, the American taxpayer, to pay for.
If you think JFK, his brother
Robert Kennedy or defense hawk Senator Jackson of the state of Washington would
be a proud Democrat today, you would be wrong. None of them would be a
card-carrying member of the Democratic Party much less ever be a nominee for
any high political office.
The Democratic Party of the 1960s
through the 90s was based on the solid pillars of anti-communism, free
enterprise, capitalism and civil rights. They favored legislation aimed at
helping the average working American, the elderly and the poor while they stood
up to the Cold War Soviet threat in Eastern Europe and communism around the
world.
These young socialist Democratic
leaders of today and tomorrow want the $44 trillion Green New Deal; the $33
trillion Medicare for All deal, cancellation of $1.56 trillion in student loan
debt before offering free college education to everyone and open borders with
no immigration rules whatsoever.
Presidential candidate Senator Cory
Booker wants everyone to become vegan instead of meat-eaters for the sake of
the environment.
Seriously.
There is no room at the inn for
old-line Southern Democrats, JFK or RFK Democrats or even modern-era Blue Dog
Democrats.
Before Republican enthusiasts get
too excited, however, over the internecine warfare on the Democratic side, they
should heed the advice of the late great political strategist Lee Atwater:
“When the opposition is in the
process of fighting and destroying each other….let them”.
The biggest problem partisans
have when they see the other side fighting among themselves is keeping their
mouths shut. Inevitably, when they do enter the fray, they say something
impertinent, intemperate or just plain wrong which brings public attention back
to their party and their inherent fractious battles and the media loses its focus
reporting on the damage being done on the other side.
Chinese general, military strategist and philosopher Sun Tzu wrote circa 500 BC: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” Napoleon reportedly told his generals: “Never interfere with the enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself.”
The Prussian military strategist Clausewitz
wrote often about sowing confusion in the mind of the enemy and taking concentrated
specific action to capitalize on that confusion.
When the army of Judah under King
Jehoshaphat started singing, the Ammonite and Moabite troops were so confused
they attacked and completely destroyed the troops from Edom. Then they turned
against each other and destroyed themselves.
Gideon took 300 men into battle
against the Midianites with only trumpets. “When they blew the 300 trumpets,
the Lord set every (Midianite) sword against his comrade and against all the
army. And the army fled.”
The worst thing any Republican
can do right now is divert attention from the dissolution of the modern
Democratic Party as it has been known for the past 50 years with an inopportune
comment.
Let the Democratic Party become the
party of socialism; anti-Semitism, infanticide, anti-capitalism, mandatory gun
buybacks and confiscation, less personal freedom and much higher taxes on their
own.
Their leaders can’t turn back the
tide any more than King Canute could.
The American people can see the
unraveling of the Democratic Party themselves. They don’t need any help from a
camera-seeking Republican to see the truth.
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