The platform hits its most strident tone in tackling an issue irrelevant to the lives of most voters. “The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to make decisions regarding her pregnancy, including a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay,” the platform notes. “We oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.” The party didn’t always speak with one voice on the divisive issue. Forty years ago, the Democratic Party Platform treated abortion the way they treat God now. They left it out. In 1976, when the word first gets mentioned in a Democratic platform, Democrats acknowledged “religious and ethical” objections to the procedure. By 1988, the party had declared abortion a “fundamental right” deserving of public subsidy. The last quarter century hasn’t seen an alteration to that plank. Abortion über alles.
Party platforms, like politicians without a “stop” button (see Joe Biden), generally undermine what they set out to accomplish. They make observers see party people more as pod people than everyday people. The Republican Party’s recent plank encouraging a federal crackdown on pornography and obscenity shows that the Democrats don’t have the market cornered on proclamations divorced from reality. And past Democratic platforms obsessing over acid rain and the ozone layer shows that this current platform isn’t alone in championing idiotic crusades. Thankfully, for the parties’ sake, the platforms tend to be tediously long and extremely boring. Voters not reading them might not be good for America. It is good for Democrats and Republicans.
As far as the Charlotte convention offering a coherent contrast with its adversaries on a guiding philosophical principle, this comes closest: “We are bound by a shared set of ideals and values rooted in the notion that we are greater together; that our collective efforts produce something better than the sum of our individual actions.”
Earthling translation? Stop being an individual and get in the pod.
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Democrats aren't considered part of the "wealthy" 1%?
Kennedy Compound in Hyannis… yachts?.
Ted Kennedy, Chappaquiddick?
Long Face John Kerry's home in Nantucket?
Jackie Kennedy foxhunting on a regular basis in Middleburg and Upperville?
Ponies on the White House lawn for the children?
Those rich Republicans!
How about all his Hollywood supporters.But 0 probably gave them exemptions just like he did for his friends, especially Unions, concerning 0care.
Since abortions are now a "phony" Constitutional right that must be paid for by the taxpayer I am going to demand that my "actual" Constitutional right to own a gun is paid for by the government.
Democratic Party Platform [in alphabetical order]
Abortion
Abolition of private property
Abolition of tradition
Adultery
Affirmative Action
"Alternative lifestyles"
Anti-Americanism
Anti-democracy
Anti-conservative speech
Anti-school choice
Anti-subsidiarity
Assisted suicide
Birth control pills [free, of course]
Death taxes
Defiance of legitimate authority
Distribution of condoms in K-12
Diversity (except viewpoint)
Euthanasia
Female masturbation workshops in universities
Fornication
Glorification of debauchery
Godless Marxism
"Hate" crimes laws
Hate for the Christian religion
Hate for those of faith (except Islamics and Islamic bombers)
Homosexual special rights
Intolerance of the good
Isolationism
K-12 Indoctrination into Godless Marxism
K-12 Indoctrination into homosexuality
K-12 sex education
Lack of moral clarity
Moral equivalency
Moral Relativism
Nietzscheism
Obliteration of God from the public square
Parole of vicious criminals
Pedophilia (except by Catholic priests and Republicans)
Polylogism
Pro-Europeanism
Racial quotas
Radical egalitarianism
Redistribution of OTHER peoples’ money
Release of known terrorists
Same-sex "marriage"
Sodomy
Speech codes
The individual human will (will to power)
Tolerance of evil
Tolerance Über Alles
UN one-world government
Unlimited government
Unlimited taxation
"Victimless" crimes
Voting rights for aliens (legal or otherwise)
Voting rights for felons
Great list !!
Mr. Flynn must have started typing this article a while ago, because Bill Clinton made plenty of mention of Obamacare last night.
And none of it was factual or made any sense to those who understand medical care based on patient need.
If you can bring one of those persons into the discussion, you will have contributed something.
Or lowered the discussion away from the fact that Obamacare solves none of the issues they said was plaguing the system.
You can have more than two hours, if you need. There's gotta be somebody. Go past the chain link fence. Try across the street.
Freedom of speech, only from approve of locations and times.
I'm sure that's what our founding fathers were saying….
The MarxiCrat obsession with abortion is that it has always appealed to the Left as a means of population 'purification'. Eliminating 'undesirables' in the womb is so much less messy than, well, you know, mass slaughter a la Stalin, Pol Pot and those guys. DNA technology is close to ID-ing in vitro those of potentially,the 'wrong' political tendencies. See:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/11/genet…
Does your face smell of your little lamb you're carrying?