by Michael Connelly
For
years I have listened to the leaders of the Democratic Party and the left wing
media lie to the American people about what they stand for and their intentions
for America. This has been particularly true during the last seven and one half
years of the Obama administration. Americans were lied to about Operation Fast
and Furious, about climate change, about the IRS attacks on conservative
groups, about Benghazi, about the true state of the economy, about the threat
of radical Islamic terrorism, etc.
Yet,
during the four days of the Democratic National Convention, the Democrats
finally spoke the truth about their vision for America, and speaker after
speaker confirmed that it is a vision of the total destruction of our Constitutional
Republic. It is to be replaced by a socialist utopia where everyone will gladly
march in lockstep like good little drones and be happy every after. The problem
is that this vision has failed everywhere it has been tried for over 100 years,
and the results have already resulted in the deaths of over 60,000,000 people,
massive poverty and repression, and often starvation. Just look at what is
currently happening in Venezuela, a “socialist paradise” touted by the left
that is now a country in total chaos.
Hillary
Clinton’s speech was mostly platitudes, but she started off by completely
embraced the “progressive Democratic platform”. (By the way, I have been trying
to find the text of that platform on line so I could read it, but it is
mysteriously unavailable, only select portions of it can be found. Why is
that?) What I do know about the platform and what I heard from the convention
speakers, including Hillary, is chilling. For the first time, they talked
honestly to the American people and this is what they told us:
1. The U.S. economy will no
longer be based on the free market, but will be completely controlled by the
federal government.
2. Small businesses will be
regulated out of existence, and major corporations taxed into oblivion. In
fact, all hard working Americans will pay massively higher taxes so that those
people who choose not to work will receive the free stuff the Democrats have
told them they are entitled to.
3. If you own a firearm to
protect your family and property, you are a criminal and must be disarmed. This
particularly true if you are a military veteran, or social security recipient.
4. If you are a Christian or
a Jew and your religious beliefs don’t conform to the federal secular agenda,
your churches and synagogues will be shut down.
5. If you attempt to exercise
your free speech rights by saying something the government deems politically
incorrect, you will be silenced.
6. When it comes to freedom
of the press, most of the main stream media is already in the tank for the
Democrats and their socialist ideology. As long as they continue to go with the
party line they will be fine, but members of the media who don’t follow that
route will be silenced.
7. The due process clause of
the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution that protects Americans from having the
federal government arbitrarily take our lives, property, and liberty will be
ignored.
8. The federal judiciary,
including the Supreme Court, will no longer be a separate and independent
branch of the government, but will be stacked with judges who will support the
agenda of the federal dictatorship.
9. The Congress of the United
States will no longer be an independent branch of the government. If it refuses
to submit itself to the control of the executive branch of the government it
will simply be ignored and laws will be imposed by executive order.
10.
There will no longer be any illegal
immigration, because our borders will be wide open to everyone including drug
dealers, violent gang members, and potential terrorists. The United States will
be a country without borders, and therefore not a sovereign nation at all.
This is the Democratic Party plan for the
future of America. They claim it is a progressive vision, when in fact it is
both regressive and oppressive. In other places; and at other times it has been
referred to as socialism, communism, or fascism. It doesn’t matter what they
call it because it ultimately translates into the loss of human freedom.
Of course, what do we know? In the eyes of
Obama, the Clintons, and the other elitists, the rest of us are just the
ignorant unwashed masses, who cling to our guns and our religion, and therefore
we must allow the elites to take care of us and make all of our decisions for
us. In my popular new novel, “The Rag”
I refer to this new order as the Socialist Republic of America.
That is the message the Democrats have
given to us. As a free American my message to them is that I will never submit
to being a slave on their federal plantation.
Michael
Connelly
