John R. Houk
© October 27, 2018
Part ONE can be read HERE.
As a recap for the purpose of this post:
I recently received criticism on a
MeWe group for sharing a Justin Smith post entitled “Liberty
First and Foremost”. The beginning of Justin’s essay said this:
The Democratic Party has grown
to be the enemy within our country, and the communist Democrats working in
federal positions are the same as foreign agents infiltrated into federal
agencies, seeking to do whatever is needed to end this republic.
Chris Worth at this MeWe group said
something to the effect he read equating the Dems to a “Communist” and
decided the post was worthless and hence encouraged readers there was no need
to read further.
And now to continue to show that the Dems have an affinity
for Communism from their 2016
Party Platform.
Resuming with the summary
of the Party Platform:
LGBT Issues
Supports comprehensive federal
nondiscrimination protections “for all LGBT Americans, to guarantee equal
rights in areas such as housing, employment, public accommodations, credit,
jury service, education, and federal funding.”
Opposes all state efforts to
“discriminate against LGBT individuals, including legislation that restricts
the right to access public spaces.”
Supports combatting [sic] LGBT youth
homelessness and improving school climates.
Supports ensuring support LGBT
elders have access to necessary health care, and “protect LGBT people from
violence—including ending the crisis of violence against transgender
Americans.”
Supports promotion of “LGBT human
rights” around the world and ensuing “America’s foreign policy is inclusive of
LGBT people.
As a Christian Conservative that supports Biblical Morality
Dems and all people of the Left vilify me as -gasp- a homophobe.
The Dem support for the normalization of all things homosexual (Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender
and now days the adding of Queer) is a Marxist elite design to displace the
Christian Values that have been the backbone of American culture for two
centuries. ONLY in the mid-1900s with the infection of Leftist thinking in the
media, entertainment, academia and the Courts has the homosexual lifestyle been
normalized via the power of propaganda waged in those venues.
Today it is even difficult to use general terms on Internet
search engines to locate data on how Americans rejected homosexuality as normal
because the search engines are dominated by Left-think. In Part One I lost patience
looking for the data on American attitudes about the LGBTQ lifestyle and ended
up using homosexual activist thinking making it sound as if the homosexual-by-choice
(I don’t buy into the Gay gene concept) people are struggling victims.
To that end here the title I found and used in Part One when the Dems
suggestively place LGBTQ discrimination under the section “Discrimination
and Racial Issues”: Being Gay Used to Be Illegal. And here is a
quote from that post about society’s concurrence with Biblical Morality by
illegalizing the homosexual lifestyle:
“Being gay” (same-sex activity and
partnership) used to be illegal in the U.S. and the U.K., and being gay is
still illegal in many parts of the world. The details are complex.
Prior to 20th-century reforms,
punishment for homosexuality in places like the United States and
the Britain included incarceration, fines, castration, and even death. Even
after aspects of same-sex relationships were decriminalized, discrimination and
prejudice on behalf of the state continued in many respects. [1][2][3]
LGBT rights throughout world history is a
complex subject. Some cultures had progressive
stances on LGBT issues long before Britain and the US, yet
other cultures still consider “being gay” a crime punishable by death and
imprisonment today. Even today, state-sponsored LGBT discrimination still
exists in the West. For instance, same sex marriage only recently
became legal in the U.S. and still illegal in Northern Ireland. [4]
(Being
Gay Used to Be Illegal; Researched by Thomas
DeMichele; FactMyth.com;
Published – 3/22/16. Last Updated – 8/27/16)
You can tell the Leftist slant by the above website when the
Christian attitude toward the LGBTQ lifestyle is described as “discrimination”
or “still illegal” rather than shunned due moral agreement with the Creator of
all that exists:
1 In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. 2 He was in the beginning with
God. 3 All things were made through Him, and
without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In
Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the
light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not [a]comprehend it. ( John 1: 1-5 NKJV)
1 18 For
the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men, who [a]suppress the truth in
unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known
of God is [b]manifest [c]in them, for God has
shown it to them. 20 For since the
creation of the world His invisible attributes are
clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His
eternal power and [d]Godhead, so that they are
without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God,
they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful,
but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were
darkened.
24 Therefore
God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to
dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who
exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the
creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this
reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their [a]women exchanged the natural
use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also
the [b]men, leaving the natural use
of the [c]woman, burned in their lust
for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves
the penalty of their error which was due. (Romans 1: 18-21, 24-27 NKJV)
In Communism religion challenges the authority of the State
and must be suppressed by any means necessary. As such here is an illuminating
quote about the reason Communism disdains religion:
A communist government has to have
the people looking at them as a god or as diety. After all, a communist
government basically decides what people do in terms of career, in terms of
where they live, what choices they have for food, clothing, medical care and
how much money they “live on.” Allowing the people to have a “god” places the
government at number two in terms of authority and prominence in a citizen’s
life and might lead to a rebelion [sic].
Karl Marx, the father of communism,
said, “Communism begins from the outset with atheism.” (He said this
in Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s
Philosophy of Right).
Vladimir Lenin similarly wrote: “A
Marxist must be a materialist, i. e., an enemy of religion, but a dialectical
materialist, i. e., one who treats the struggle against religion not in an
abstract way, not on the basis of remote, purely theoretical, never varying
preaching, but in a concrete way, on the basis of the class struggle which is
going on in practice and is educating the masses more and
better than anything else could”(He said this in his book, Private
Property and Communism). (Communism
Persecutes Religion; NoCommunism.com)
Dem support for an LGBTQ agenda smacks entirely of Communist
remolding of cultural thinking.
Dem Platform Summary
Continued:
National Service
Support strengthening AmeriCorps
with the “goal that every American who wants to participate in full-time
national service will have the opportunity to do so.”
AmeriCorps according to its website:
AmeriCorps is a network of national
service programs, made up of three primary programs that each take a different
approach to improving lives and fostering civic engagement. Members commit
their time to address critical community needs like increasing academic
achievement, mentoring youth, fighting poverty, sustaining national parks,
preparing for disasters, and more.
AmeriCorps is a good idea. You can hearken back to President
Kennedy’s words:
My fellow Americans, ask not what
your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Service for Country is difficult to criticize. However, a
CBS report (of all places) shows the current scope of AmeriCorps has problems:
WASHINGTON — A CBS News
Radio investigation of years of complaints about AmeriCorps programs has found
multiple allegations of sexual harassment, abusive behavior and mismanagement
since 2013. The allegations are detailed in complaints to the agency's
Inspector General, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
AmeriCorps, a network of national
service programs, is the largest issuer of grants for service and volunteering.
It is overseen by the Corporation
for National and Community Service (CNCS), which was established as a federal
agency in 1993 – and has been dogged for years by claims that it is poorly
managed.
Conservative critics say AmeriCorps
is a waste of money and promotes liberal causes. The Government Accountability
Office found last year that CNCS has fallen short in
monitoring whether the organizations it grants money to meet federal standards
and requirements. (AmeriCorps
programs accused of sexual misconduct and breakdowns in oversight;
By STEVE DORSEY; CBS News; 10/22/18 8:15 AM – Updated 10/22/18 7:15
PM EDT)
In essence the AmeriCorps problem is Big Government, mismanagement
and propagating Left-Wing causes in its current state. Here’s a Michelle Malkin
criticism from 2011:
… With bipartisan support, the
program has morphed into an all-purpose progressive slush fund. Instead of
reining in the national-service boondoggle, Washington has turned
taxpayer-subsidized helping hands into a legion of Nanny State handout helpers.
Goodbye, AmeriCorps. Hello, FoodStampCorps.
#ad#Yes, across the Internet, the
feds are recruiting AmeriCorps VISTA (“Volunteers in Service to America”)
workers to apply for jobs as publicists for the welfare state. Their mission:
to sign up as many people to federal food-stamp rolls as possible. Because, you
know, the record-breaking 12 million that have been added since Obama took
office is apparently not good enough. (America
the Dependent; By MICHELLE MALKIN; National Review;
4/15/11 4:00 AM)
Can you say, “Teaching government dependence”?
The Libertarian-oriented Hoover Institute observed in
1996, three years after AmeriCorps’ creation:
… Clinton has used the rhetoric of
citizenship to justify his efforts to expand the welfare state. He has
contradicted his emphasis on personal responsibility by working to preserve
bureaucratic federal control of social programs. The revival of citizenship requires
a transfer of power from government to families, voluntary associations, and
communities. The president has instead sought to reinvigorate civic life by
trying to relegitimize government.
…
AmeriCorps reveals the
administration's fundamental misreading of the components of healthy
citizenship. The program provides government subsidies for voluntary activity
at the federal, state, and local levels. By so doing, it conflates volunteering
-- which nearly 90 million Americans regularly do -- with a federal-government
jobs program run by a centralized bureaucracy. It is, in essence, a Great
Society-style program trying to pass as a plan to reinvigorate citizenship and
heal communities. But its very premise -- using federal resources to promote
voluntarism -- contradicts the principle of self-government that lies at the
heart of citizenship. AmeriCorps blurs the line between the problems and needs
best addressed by individuals, voluntary association and localities and those
best addressed by the federal government. Instead, it seems to suggest that
social problems are the responsibility of the central government, and the
federal bureaucracy must direct and improve local solutions. (Clinton's
AmeriCorps Values; By John Walters;
January/February Policy Review
– Hoover Institute;
3/1/1996)
Government dependence is one of the ways a Communist
government manages the thoughts and actions of its citizens.
Read this
article on Marxist/Leninist agenda to control citizens and look for
similarities to the stealth actions of the Democratic Party. Here is a bit of
an intro:
As the Bolshevik party took control
of Russia after the October Revolution in 1917, they initiated large scale
reforms in numerous sectors of society, while ultimately instituting changes in
the political, economic, and cultural realms; that would all work together to
clearly define their newly founded United Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) for
the next seventy years. These reforms were predominantly focused on the
wide-spread cultivation and propagation of Marxist/Leninist ideology throughout
every portion of the USSR’s social spectrum. One of the most important
initiatives taken was the promulgation of a new philosophical idealism that
strove to mold the masses, specifically the proletariat working class, to form
a “New Man.” Though this philosophical concept, coupled with the aims and
ideology of the Soviet regime, has been historically designated as “The New
Soviet Man,” the two terms are referred to synonymously in this historical
investigation. The New Soviet Man was a medium through which the new party
leaders attempted to extirpate old societal norms, which were lingering from
the former regime, and replace them with a holistically Communistic society
ruled by a national consensus and devoid of any individualism that may cause
dissention. The party utilized several different means and operated through
multifarious mediums to achieve this unification of social consciousness; some
of these methods of transformation like propaganda or education guided under
Communist values were directly implemented in social sectors to achieve
immediate results, and … READ
ENTIRETY (Re-creating Mankind: The Philosophy and
Actualization of the “New Soviet Man”; By Jon Savage - James Duban,
Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief; The Eagle Feather – A Publication
for Undergraduate Scholars (University of North Texas); 2011 Edition)
The Marxist/Leninist approach to rule was sow seeds of
discontent then implement violent rebellion to overthrow a non-Communist
regime.
The Eurocommunist approach was (or is) a quiet revolution by
gaining dominance in societal institutions such as Media, Entertainment,
Academia and Government Institutions (We can call this the Shadow/Deep State). You
need to bone up on the information you can find. In America, Eurocommunism may
not be appropriate, so here let’s call it the Gramsci/Alinsky approach.
Here’s an excerpt from a 2008 article written on the cusp of the beginning of
Obama’s Fundamental Transformation:
Gramsci, as you may (or may not)
know was the Italian Marxist theorist who evolved what we in America knew as
the "Popular Front" approach to Marxist revolution--burrowing within
organizations rather than attacking capitalism head on--and evolving it into a
fine art of infiltration and cultural destruction. The end result: to
completely alter the political message to one defending capitalism, religion,
the middle class, family, and Western cultural traditions--including
government, academia, media, and jurisprudence--to a new message that dwelt
upon the evils of tradition, the oppressiveness of the West, etc. Gramsci
believed that by changing the cultural message--for current usage, substitute
the word "narrative"--to one espousing socialism and class struggle,
you could eviscerate Western culture from within.
…
The seditious role of the
community organiser was developed by an extreme left intellectual called Saul
Alinsky. He was a radical Chicago activist who, by the time he died in 1972,
had had a profound influence on the highest levels of the Democratic party.
Alinsky was a ‘transformational Marxist’ in the mould of Antonio Gramsci, who
promoted the strategy of a ‘long march through the institutions’ by capturing the
culture and turning it inside out as the most effective means of overturning
western society. …
…
His creed was set out in his book
‘Rules for Radicals’ – a book he dedicated to Lucifer, whom he called the
‘first radical’. It was Alinsky for whom ‘change’ was his mantra. And by
‘change’, he meant a Marxist revolution achieved by slow, incremental, Machiavellian
means which turned society inside out. This had to be done through systematic
deception, winning the trust of the naively idealistic middle class by using
the language of morality to conceal an agenda designed to destroy it. And the
way to do this, he said, was through ‘people’s organisations’.
…
"March through the
institutions." That pretty well describes what's been going on and I couldn't
agree more. –READ
ENTIRETY (Obama = Alinsky = Gramsci = Marx; Posted
by Wonker; HazZzMat;
9/15/08 8:32 PM)
Due to an American divide politically, I’m not sure if one
can point to a subversive path against the U.S. Constitution. My guess the is
the current status of subversion is a combination of Marxist/Leninist (the
Bill Ayers dream) and Gramsci/Alinsky.
Dem Platform Summary
Continued:
Poverty
Supports directing more federal
resources to “lifting up communities that have been left out and left behind,
such as the 10-20-30 model, which directs 10 percent of program funds to
communities where at least 20 percent of the population has been living below
the poverty line for 30 years or more.”
Supports protecting programs like
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Supports helping people “grow their
skills through jobs and skills training opportunities.”
Supports expanding the Earned
Income Tax Credit (EITC) program for low-wage workers not raising children,
including extending the credit to young workers starting at age 21.
Supports expanding the Child Tax
Credit (CTC) and making more of it refundable, or indexed to inflation to stem
the erosion of the credit.
EVERYTHING I wrote on the Dem Platform on National
Service is applicable to the platform on Poverty.
End of Part 2
JRH 10/27/18
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