Will Democrats propose an amendment that no woman will be forced carry an unwanted fetus…. or be forced to abort one?
Will Democrats propose an amendment making it unconstitutional for Legislators to interfere in the doctor/patient relationship or practice medicine without a license?
Will Democrats propose a Voting Rights amendment outlawing electronic voting machines and requiring the public counting of ballots?
Does anybody seriously believe that electing Obama will make a dime’s worth of difference stopping rape, or for women generally? Why would they? Does anybody actually read what Obama says, or watch what he does? Let’s put the famous “rape is rape” in context, shall we? Let’s roll the transcript:
The New York Times Opinionator blog aggregator has detected a nascent revolt in the Democratic party. The Times is only 18 months late. The PUMAs were ahead of the curve the day the DNC RBC knifed its own voters and installed Barack Obama as the nominee over the objections of slightly more than half of the Democratic primary voters. I’ll get back to why this moment was important. The Opinionator follows up on this week’s off-off-year election results and reports that it appears that the Democrats are losing their far left flank.
(First, they came for the so-called “Reagan Democrats”, then they came for the women and the gays.)
Can I just say what a stupid narrative this is? Sometimes, I read this crap in the paper and I think, do these reporters just take dictation from Rahm Emannuel or do they make this $^&* up to conform to their view of the world where things have to go into neat little boxes?
What the hell is the far-left anyway? If you believe that equal treatment under the law should apply to all citizens regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, race, creed or disability because they are all persons born with unalienable rights, that is hardly a “far left” position. Isn’t that a uniquely American position? Didn’t we all pledge allegiance to the flag that promised “liberty and justice for all”? And if that is true, doesn’t that put us on the side of everything that is good about America and those that oppose those things horribly mislead?
My idea of “far-left” is based on my childhood impressions of news reports of the Weather Underground and defenders of Karl Marx. Far lefties, to me, are people who are rigid ideologues who want to enforce some strange form of a socialist utopian nanny state on the rest of us. And I am referring to a REAL communist-socialist state, not some bizarre Republican misinterpretation of one. Far lefties are militant pacifists. They hang out in trees and feed their children macrobiotic organic fruititarian diets. They are green Martha Stewart’s who think everyone has time to grow their own clothes and walk to work. They’re people who can’t be reasoned with. They’re oblivious to real life and are as fundamentalist in their world view as the religious right.
The closest I can find to a far-lefty these days is the Obot who still thinks that the main problem plaguing the country right now is the issue of race. Where have these people been in the last year? Did they miss that sincerely awe inspiring election of the first African-American for president? Don’t they know what the unemployment rate is? Have they tried to find jobs lately? Feed their kids? Pay for a doctor? Save for college? They’re stuck with the mindset that we are not finished with their teachable moment on race as if all other oppressed demographic groups don’t have grievances that need to be addressed. If only we would let go of our prejudices, which for the most part do not exist on the center-left, President Obama could get on with his job and we’ll all be happier. Anyone who opposes Obama doesn’t have a legitimate reason for doing so. They’re just racists or stupid old women. That’s the far-left. They are so stuck in the weeds of their own perfect world they are incapable of seeing the floor torn out from beneath their feet by the big business friends of Obama who installed him in office.
Let’s talk about those big business friends of Obama. They were in control of the primary and general election season last year. I think we can all see that in retrospect. Raise your hand if that isn’t perfectly clear to you by now. Their massive infusions of cash bought the Democratic National Committee, which unbeknownst to the average voter was up for sale. The Democratic National Committee violated just about every principle it stood for in order to install Obama as the nominee including dumping millions of Hillary Clinton’s voters. I’m going to keep harping on this until the Times boys get it. The party dumped its base last year. That is why there is trouble brewing in the party. Some of us have left the party over what happened last year. You just didn’t see it in the presidential election because the economy tanked.
Apparently, that “some of us” made the difference in NJ. It isn’t that there were so many more voters voting Republican in NJ. There weren’t. It’s that Democrats just didn’t turn out or that the truly disgusted ones, such as myself, voted for a fiscally responsible, socially liberal Chris Daggett. Now, some may argue that Corzine lost due to local issues. And that is true. But the reason he was such a failure at resolving local issues is because he is typical of the kind of Democratic politician we’ve become accustomed to voting for in the Democratic party. He is beholden to the status quo and big money, a compromiser, an incrementalist, insufficiently bold, doesn’t look out for the middle class and all too willing to ignore the voters when their will is inconvenient to him.
Who does that sound like?
The party has lost its way and now that enough of its voters know that the party is no longer listening to them, there have been defections. And let’s not mistake who the defectors are. Most of us are FDR, Clinton style Democrats, moderate to liberal but hardly “far-left”. We’re in Paul Krugman’s camp. Recently, some of the feminist Obama supporters have woken up and smelled the coffee. We welcome them and only regret that they weren’t paying attention last year when references to abortion and reproductive rights were scrubbed from Democratic candidates web sites. (Read past the quote) They ridiculed the PUMAs last year. They’re starting to sound just like them now. Gay voters have been wary of Obama since he rolled out Donny McClurkin but many fell prey to the “Obama is an historic candidate but Hillary Clinton is an old bitch” propaganda. Do they now regret their over the top rants against her? Is it possible that she was just a legitimate candidate who stood for traditional core Democratic principles and was not sent by Satan to rain on Barack Obama’s glorious golden specialness? Is it possible that her supporters deserved to be treated like persons and their votes respected?
The party’s civil war started the day the RBC tossed our votes out, May 31, 2008. The day they made one candidate’s voters more equal than the others, the day they violated every principle they had over voting rights, the day they selectively broke and enforced their rules and decided to not listen to their voters, and got away with it, was the day the party started down the path to disunity. It only took some time before the Obama cheerleaders realized that they had given the party permission to completely ignore them in the future. And now the party should not be surprised that they have a civil war on their hands.
E. B. White: Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
George Orwell: In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Washington: As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
Jesse Jackson: In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
John Bright: Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated. (more…)
Please watch this scene from Steven Spielberg’s “Amistad” – especially from point 7:25 on forward:
In this scene where John Quincy Adams defended Cinque the Mende leader (brilliantly potrayed by Anthony Hopkins and Djimon Honsou), he reminds the Supreme Court that who we are as a people is who we were, and that Cinque was a man who is fighting for his right to exist as a free person just like our Founding Fathers (and Mothers!) fought for their right to exist as a free nation.
This rings true today with regards to our situation as PUMAs. Who we are today is who we were. Forged from a principle of equality and Democracy, we are a nation of fighters, people that believed in the common good that everyone should have the right to cast a vote, be represented in goverment by elected officials who win the majority of their constituents’ votes and the right to protest. The right to vote is the only leveling ground which makes everyone equal. Doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor, woman or man, gay or straight, healthy or sick, tall or short, white/black/brown/yellow/red/green with purple polka dots: we all have the right to vote and expect that vote to be cast and counted as it was intended. Without that right, we become second class citizens, chattel, collateral damage and lowly subjects to an imperialist society.
The line of “Convert to Obama or else” is drawn in the sand. We are all on trial and the O-bots and the MSM are judge, jury and executioner. Families, friendships, private property and jobs have suffered because of this ideological divide. The Democratic primary caucuses, the RBC meeting and at the Democratic Convention were the signs of the widening rift. On one side, Democrats who believe in “one person = one vote” tenets of Democracy and on the other, Democrats who believe that having an African-American candidate trumps Democracy, despite him being the most inexperienced presidential candiadate in the history of the United States, and regardless if it means stealing votes for that candidate to ”win.”
Having an African-American president has been one of my biggest dreams just like having a female president serve in my lifetime. But I don’t want that president to come to office if he/she had to steal votes to get there. I would not feel a sense of pride in their presidency, in fact I’d feel the same way I feel about George W. Bush, that he/she was selected not elected and was illegitimately holding an office that was not chosen by the voting majority. Current Democrats are acting as if the only way of becoming a millionaire is to rob a bank. Of course this is not the only way to become a millionaire, but many in the Democratic Party have been infected with this ”ends justify the means” haka that desecrates our American ideals of respecting the sanctity of “one person = one vote.”
Not too long ago (but what seems an eternity) what filled me with pride as a Democrat was that we were on the “good guys” side. We defended civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, voter rights, housing rights, etc. As a liberal, I want everybody to have a good paying job , a decent place to live, a good public school to send your kids, have a good doctor, participate in the American dream of buying your own home and for everyone to live a prosperous happy life living under a government that is for the people, by the people. While knowing that certain candidates did not have a full grasp to the needs of middle to lower income Americans, nor have the fighting spirit to defend them, I stood by my party for decades as they rolled out candidate after candidate who I voted for because I was a Democrat. I stood by them because they earned the majority of our party’s votes and because they had Democratic principles (despite that some of them were a bit “right-of-center” to my more liberal views.) I don’t feel that sense of pride anymore, I don’t feel that the Democrats are the “good guys” because the current Democratic Party morphed into the “enemy” and it’s eating its own just to win. It’s become the blue-tinged version of the Neo-Con Republican Party with an “O” instead of a “W.”
We are accosted and harassed with hundred-million dollar HAKAs through every media vehicle. We face the “Convert to Obama or else” threats every waking second of every day. We are force-fed misogyny and unbridled zeal to destroy, defame, denounce, decry anything that opposes Obama, even if that opposition has the evidence to prove Obama’s lies and voter fraud. Even the simplest “I don’t think he’s experienced” is met with accusatory and inflammatory charges of racism (even if you are a POC like me).
But what keeps us strong here at The Confluence is that we understand that “who we are is who were were.” Our Founding Fathers (and Mothers!), our great abolitionists, our heroic civil rights and women’s rights leaders all fought valiantly to defend our American right to cast a vote, be represented in government and to live productive and healthy lives as a free people. Free people means that we can say what we want, do what we want, think what we want and vote how we want and to respect those that have a difference of opinion. The MSM and O-bot bloggers don’t get that we follow “democratic principles” and not just “Democrats.”. They think we are outcasts, the shrieking band of paranoid holdouts, the pariahs of the Democratic party because we are not falling in line with the current Democratic Party.
I have a message for them:
If you are voting for Obama, good for you! But please, stop harassing me to vote for him. This is not the Democratic Party I once knew and no one living in the United States should have their right to vote surpressed, like mine was. By enabling such deeds, we cease to exist as a “free” nation and by supressing our protest and our votes, you are murdering the precious right of Democracy and of critical thinking. Thomas Jefferson said:
“Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure…we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.” –Thomas Jefferson to P. H. Wendover, 1815.
And:
“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.” –Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1787.
I, like many in this forum, have exercised our right to critical thought. We’ve gathered the facts and decided a long time ago that Barack Obama is not going to have our vote due to the voter fraud in the Democratic primaries/caucuses/RBC/DNC Convention, rampant misogyny promoted by his surrogates and supporters, his glaring inexperience and his failure to win the popular vote in the Democratic Party. If there is to be that Civil War in the Democratic Party, let it be so. The current Democratic Party does not speak for me since they ceased being “Democratic” during the 2008 primaries. I could care less what anyone thinks of me at this point. I care about this document that’s right here, which says:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The more you push, the more I resist. I follow Democratic principles, not people who call themselves “Democrats.” So Don’t Tread on Me !
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