Democrats are Hypocrites

              Phillip Smith told William Hadley that Letters to the Editor were “not a good place to pontificate on 160 years of history.  However, most of the responses to Hadley’s article illustrate that we do need to get some lessons in history someplace. 

               Mr. Smith says that the “Lincoln Douglas debates give better insight into Lincoln’s beliefs” suggesting, I guess, that Lincoln was not the abolitionist we think.  A lot of college professors like to leave the impression that the Civil War was not about slavery, but about economics.  The Lincoln Douglas debates, however, are all about slavery, a continuation of the arguments posed by Thomas Jefferson in the original Declaration of Independence where he decried the Kings determination “to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold.”

               In one debate, Lincoln commented on the quote, “You work and toil and earn bread, and I’ll eat it,” saying “No matter what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.”  In another, he said, “We think it wrong.”  In another: “We think it is a moral, and social and a political wrong.” In another:  “It as an evil.”  In no debate did Lincoln recoil from his abolitionist stand.

               Mr. Smith also criticizes Mr. Hadley for forgetting about the Blue Dog Democrats suggesting they played a role in the Civil Rights movement.  The Blue Dog coalition was formed in 1994 and their preamble describes their mission to be, like the present day Tea Parties’, dedicated to the financial stability and national security of the country.    

               And Yes, Mr. Zack, I do think Democrats are hypocrites.  Both Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy fought tooth and nail against the Civil Rights act of 1954, but by 1962 they could see the writing on the wall.  They knew their cause was lost, so they finally took up the fight of the party of Lincoln and have since then pretended to be champions of minorities.  Lyndon Johnson famously said, “I’ll have those _____s voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”

               But the Democrats are not the champions of minorities; they are promoting a permanent underclass.  “Vote for us and we’ll give you everything you need, food, shelter, health care, mobile phones.  Enslave yourselves to your new masters and you’ll never again have to worry about taking care of yourselves.  We’ll do that for you.”

               Republicans know better.  We have respect for all men.  We truly believe that all men are created equal and have the right to the fruits of their labor.   We have compassion for the worker and his right to his wealth.  We also have compassion for the truly indigent.  Research shows that charitable contributions by conservatives almost doubles that of liberals.  Nicolas Kristoff admits, “We liberals are the nation’s compassionate tightwads.”