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| The Democrats Were Here Before and Tore the Nation Asunder – Consider Lincoln |
| 2017-04-23 |
| [American Thinker] The Democrats, through their rhetoric and their actions, are opposing the Trump administration at every turn. Through Obama administration government holdovers, they intend to bring down the present government and maintain and expand the bureaucratic Administrative State which is destroying federalism, taking away Americans’ individual rights, and nullifying large swaths of the Constitution of the United States. Their presidential candidate failed to win the office, and the Democrats’ expected triumph of the Administrative State will at best be postponed and at worst be dismantled to a great extent by President Trump and his appointees. The Democrats are furious, and, as has been reported in these pages and in other sources, their reaction has been militant, irrational, and destructive to our nation. We have seen this before. Over 150 years ago the issues were cogently examined and argued by presidential hopeful Abraham Lincoln in his Feb. 27, 1860 address at Cooper Union in New York City. The issue then was slavery, whether the federal government had a right to prevent its expansion into U.S. territories not yet organized into states. Because of the Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court decision, Lincoln predicted that the right to own slaves would spread to the entire nation if Democrats had their way. Today the issue is the Administrative State and whether it will destroy federalism and our citizens’ G-d given individual rights, some of which are enumerated in the Constitution as amended, and our representative republic. In 1860 the Democratic Party was divided. The slave states were the exclusive territory of the Democratic Party. It was, without argument, the party of slavery. In the North, the policy of the Democratic Party as to slavery was expounded by its leader, Sen. Stephen A. Douglas, who refused to express an opinion as to whether slavery was good or bad, or whether it should or should not expand into the territories. In the end, the Democrats attempted to take their slave-holding states out of the Union and tore the nation apart because they held that slavery was a wonderful condition for the slaves, and that some men had a G-d given right to earn their living in leisure at the expense of other men’s sweat and toil. In consequence, over 600,000 Americans lost their lives in an armed struggle to restore the Union. Today the Democratic Party would intentionally ruin our unique-in-history federalist and constitutional republic in order to replace it with an Administrative State not far removed from what we read about in Brave New World, 1984, and Darkness at Noon. Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, teaches a course on tyranny which, for good reason, incorporates these books, among others, in its syllabus. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Democrats = Demons |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-04-23 17:43 |
| #3 Both parties in the last decades have been hard at work on the Administrative State. Liberty is an obsolete word with them. Posted by Alaska Paul "Repeal and replace, repeal and replace, repeal and replace, repeal and replace, repeal and replace" All they (Pubs) could plan for in eight long years was their annual pay raise. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-04-23 14:49 |
| #2 Both parties in the last decades have been hard at work on the Administrative State. Liberty is an obsolete word with them. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2017-04-23 12:11 |
| #1 they intend to bring down the present government and maintain and expand the bureaucratic Administrative State which is destroying federalism, taking away Americans’ individual rights, and nullifying large swaths of the Constitution of the United States. If this were a 5th column effort, one would think they were engaging in treason, subversion, and sedition---but that can't be (sarc); they are one of our major political parties. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-04-23 08:34 |