Posted on 02/05/2019 5:36:48 AM PST by Heartlander
To say the Left in America has gone off the rails is like saying the Super Bowl is a fairly popular football game.
It’s hard to keep up with the tsunami of cultural and economic insanity thundering through a thousand outlets every day, but here’s a try. You thought Vermont’s Democratic Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders was radical? Current Democratic leaders start with his views and go further left.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi mocks the idea of securing America’s southern border as something only a bigot like President Trump would want. Hence, she and her party oppose even a dime for any more physical barriers that would help the border patrol stem the ongoing invasion of illegal immigrants. Three more caravans on the way? Ho hum.
Openly socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, wants not only open borders but to abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is charged with keeping us safe from drug dealers and violent criminals. She also backs a confiscatory tax scheme with rates as high as 70 percent, free college tuition and a “Green New Deal” mandate that would strangle industry, cause energy costs to skyrocket and make blackouts common. She’s a huge hit wherever she speaks.
New York State’s Democrats last week legalized late-term abortion right up to a baby’s due date. Virginia’s Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam endorsed what amounts to infanticide after birth while defending a proposed law that would allow abortion of a baby even during a woman’s labor. Commentator Larry O’Connor has dubbed Dr. Northam, who is a pediatric neurologist, “Governor Gosnell,” after the infamous Philadelphia baby butcher recently depicted in the Dean Cain film “Gosnell.”
California Democrat Sen. Kamala Harris wants to end all private health insurance plans and put the government solely in charge. She’s not even bothering to falsely promise, as did President Obama, that everyone can keep their health plan and doctor if they like them. She wants no escape.
Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren wants to seize and redistribute income from “the rich” and backs government control of corporations and “Medicare for All.”
Meanwhile, Democrats are deploying the LGBTQ legal agenda to criminalize conservative religious views, using transgenderism as the spearpoint. After enacting their radical, full-term abortion bill, New York legislators passed a law three days later enshrining the LGBTQ activist agenda and another bill criminalizing counseling for young people with unwanted same-sex desires. Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed both with fanfare.
The Empire State joins 14 other Democrat-dominated states with similar laws whose view of sexuality is like the Eagles’ song, “Hotel California.” You can get into homosexuality and transgender behavior anytime you like, but you can never leave – they will see to that.
Such laws are a totalitarian assault on free speech, client self-determination, parental rights, religious freedom and the universal understanding of male-female complementarity found in every culture and every major religion. They constitute an open attack on the Judeo-Christian morality that undergirds our country’s commitment to liberty under law.
A breath of sanity occurred this past week when U.S. Magistrate Amanda Arnold Sansone recommended a limited injunction against the city of Tampa’s SOCE (Sexual Orientation Change Effort) law barring counseling for minors.
She wrote that the city “be enjoined from enforcing” an ordinance against mental health professionals “who provide non-coercive, non-aversive SOCE counseling—which consists entirely of speech, or ‘talk therapy.’” In other words, she didn’t buy into the false allegations of “electroshock therapy” and other aversive methods that the counseling profession abandoned long ago.
The judge’s ruling is a tiny pinprick of hope against a dark, lunatic campaign to stamp out normalcy. Meanwhile, the abomination of “Drag Queen Story Hours” for small children is spreading across the nation.
How did it come to this? In the middle of the 20th Century, cultural Marxists began to dominate the universities and produce a trickle-down effect on public schools, the professional associations and American culture. They have now taken over one of America’s major parties, as evidenced by Democrats’ embrace of culturally corrosive attacks.
The Democrat-run House Natural Resources Committee this past week drafted a new oath for witnesses that omits “so help you God.” After a Fox News story stirred a backlash, the committee backed off and voted to keep God in the oath. Similarly, during the 2012 Democratic National Convention, mention of God was removed from the party platform, then restored.
"It is incredible, but not surprising, that the Democrats would try to remove God from committee proceedings in one of their first acts in the majority,” said Rep. Liz Cheney, Wyoming Republican. “They really have become the party of Karl Marx."
Indeed, Marx called for extirpating religion – the “opiate of the masses.” He saw socialism, like capitalism, as merely a way station on the road to communism.
Given the unblemished record of human misery produced by socialism and communism, you’d have to be crazy to want to push our country in that direction – wouldn’t you?
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“You can get into homosexuality and transgender behavior anytime you like, but you can never leave – they will see to that.”
What amounts to LGBT apostasy laws.
On the plus side...in the 1950’s and 1960’s one had to pay a dollar or so to gain access the “Freak” Show at the carnival or fair, Now, all you have to do is go out of the house and walk around for free. My how our society has “advanced”. Thanks LIBs...thanks a lot.
Not really.
I got laid off at 50, after 25 years with the same company and 30 years of honest and found my (long time controlled with diet and exercise) diabetes was now a ‘pre-existing condition’. Worked my whole life by the rules, and then screwed. If I had a more chronic health problem it would have been very dire. There simply has to be a way to ensure healthcare for people who have been productive citizens and done what they should (not druggies, smokers, fatties or bums) if things get bad later in life.
I’m good, having landed a job that has coverage after a year, but if I hadn’t, well, with healthcare , anything, and any cost beats nothing.
Do you have a cite for the 70% figure, please?
Saw it here the 70% here on FR.
I didn’t log the citation.
Any “national solution” that has any degree of effectiveness over and above the ‘mediocrity” that is the European systems will require a national degree of intrusion and control of the participants.
Of course maybe “mediocrity” is enough!
The left abuses the privilege of being stupid they got to get off the bong water and meds.
Utopia is only in the mind.
Compared to dying from lack of medical care, ‘mediocrity’ is just fine.
again, no sympathy for those that bring ill health on themselves, but if you’ve followed the rules all your life, you have the right to kill those, painfully, who would change them on you in your final decades, be that Social Security or doing what you were supposed to do to have healthcare. The older I get, the less ‘life in prison’ is a deterrent (and at least I’d have healthcare!:-) )
I found this...from Gallup...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixty-five percent of Americans are satisfied with the way the healthcare system works for them, down slightly from 67% in 2014. Americans with Medicare, Medicaid and military or veterans’ insurance continue to express the most satisfaction, at or near 75%, while uninsured Americans report the lowest (40%). Satisfaction With the U.S. Healthcare System, by Insurance Type 2014
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Thanks.
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