No doubt many readers will be put off by the unexpected title of this essay so Ill hasten to add a crucial disclaimer: This article will not extol the godless radically secularist ideology of the current Democratic Party leadership or its abominable methods of putting it into practice. Nor will it condemn the traditional Judeo-Christian values strict constitutional government and fiscal responsibility espoused by the current Republican Party leadership. Rather my intention here is along the lines of Jesus famous remark to his disciples that the children of this age are wiser in their generation than the children of light. My goal is to demonstrate that there is something truly praiseworthy in our worst political enemies the Democrats and that there is something truly blameworthy in our best political friends the Republicans.
Looking back over the past ten years of contemporary American history which includes eight years of President Obama and two years of President Trump it becomes painfully obvious that the Democrats have been steadily gaining the upper hand in national and state politics. This increasing concentration of power in Democratic hands has been taking place despite the remarkable growth and ascendancy of the Tea Party movement which swept historic Republican majorities into the Senate the House of Representatives and state legislatures and state governorships across the nation in 2010 and 2014 and propelled Donald Trump into the White House in 2016. Ironically Democrats are even more powerful and dangerous now in 2019 with majority control of the House alone than they were in 2009 when they controlled the White House the House and the Senate with a filibuster-proof supermajority in the latter chamber. How so?
In todays money-driven politically polarized social media-saturated culture a political movement easily claims victory over its opposition based on the sums of money it raises and spends on advertising the amount of media publicity it gets and the number of seats and chambers it wins and holds in Washington and state capitals. Although these factors are to some extent important and necessary for any political movement to achieve national prominence their sum does not automatically equal enduring influence. The true yardstick for measuring the long-term success of any U.S. political movement is its ability to accomplish its stated objectives. And the absolutely critical factor here is the movements determination (or lack thereof) to implement its agenda.
During the past ten years the Democrats have made it very clear that their agenda is to fundamentally transform America from a Judeo-Christian Constitutional pro-life pro-family small-government low-tax balanced-budget market-economy-based secure-borders nation into a godless lawless pro-abortion anti-family big-government high-tax high-debt socialist open-borders nation. Their toolkit to accomplish this has included lies propaganda secrecy name-calling character assassination threats and blackmail. Frankly theyve made substantial progress toward their revolutionary goal with the continued expulsion of God from our national life and public places a litany of unconstitutional laws and executive orders from ObamaCare to DACA maintaining taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood Supreme Court decisions upholding ObamaCare and striking down state marriage laws swelling of the federal bureaucracy high taxes a national debt increase of $12 trillion stifled economic growth and a massive population of illegal immigrants.
The fact that most of this was accomplished with Republicans controlling one or both houses of Congress is a shining reflection on the bulldog tenacity of Democrats to see their agenda through come what may. Its also a glaring reflection on the disappointing lack of determination by Republicans to implement their own agenda for the country. Supposedly the Republicans want to keep America a Judeo-Christian Constitutional pro-life pro-family small-government low-tax fiscally responsible market-economy-based secure-borders nation. And its true that in the past two years President Trump and Congressional Republicans have taken some important steps to implement their agenda reversing some of the damage wreaked by Democrats under President Obama. However the Republicans have not been anywhere near as aggressive in implementing their good agenda as the Democrats have been in implementing their evil one. Worse Democrats consistently make agenda-driven campaign promises and deliver on them while Republicans tend to make agenda-driven campaign promises and renege on them.
Case in point: the ObamaCare monstrosity. Democrats promised it during the 2008 election campaign and after winning that election despite opposition from Republicans and two-thirds of the American people they delivered ramming the controversial bill through Congress and into law in 2010. Republicans promised to either repeal or de-fund it during the 2014 election season but after winning that election despite massive support for fulfilling their campaign promise in 2015 Republicans led by House Speaker John Boehner caved in to President Obamas demand for money for his pet law. Again in 2016 Donald Trump and the Republicans solemnly pledged to repeal the Affordable Care Act sic and replace it with entirely new healthcare legislation in line with their own agenda. But while a Democratic-controlled White House Senate and House in 2009 and 2010 proved entirely capable of enacting ObamaCare a Republican-controlled White House Senate and House in 2017 and 2018 proved entirely incapable of repealing it.
The fact that ObamaCare is still on the books today certainly demonstrates the staying power of the corrupt Washington establishment behind it (with which the Democrats are fully in bed) but more to the point here it exemplifies the ominous trend of the past ten years in which Republicans are quickly throwing their campaign promises out the window quietly setting their agenda aside and gradually ceding more power to their Democratic enemies. The donkeys iron determination combined with the elephants hushed timidity effectively renders the Democratic Party the majority party in America today. If this trend continues within twenty years the Republican Party will find itself an irrelevant minority party leaving the Democrats firmly in charge of national affairs.
Why have Republican politicians abandoned their core principles betrayed their loyal constituents and compromised their cherished values in this fashion? Apparently for fear of the Democrats who are threatening them and have added the incitement of mob violence to their toolkit in their increasing desperation to further advance their radically secularist agenda. And apparently Republicans are so scared of the above-mentioned establishment that theyve been transformed into creatures of that very establishment while still claiming to represent we the people. They are now followers disguised as leaders. The Republicans hypocrisy is sickening and their cowardice is frightening. I have to hand it to the Democrats: they know exactly what they want to achieve and how to achieve it and come heck or high water theyre accomplishing it. Meanwhile much of the wholesome agenda our country sorely needs languishes in the comfortable offices of House and Senate Republicans.
Yes the Democratic bullies have lots of money and power thanks to the corrupt establishment and the mainstream media. But thats a poor excuse for Republicans to roll over and play dead. The Republican principles that made America great are worth defending as strenuously as possible and since the Republican agenda based on those principles holds the key to Americas long-term survival it must be pushed with even more determination than the Democrats are pushing their rotten agenda if it is to succeed long-term. This means the Republicans must be wise as serpents and simple as doves taking full advantage of their own strengths and fully exploiting the Democrats weaknesses. The Democrats may seem stronger at the moment in worldly terms but Republicans have the far greater strengths of faith and trust in God the revealed truths of natural law regarding human life and liberty the wisdom and example of the Founders prayer and fasting and divine grace. If Republicans utilize their own strengths with sufficient determination and resolve for a sufficient period of time America will be rescued from the tyranny of radical secularism. If not...
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