Posted on 11/06/2004 4:28:48 PM PST by hleewilder
Reading some of the entries here and on other sites, it seems as if the general consensus is that evangelical Christians of the snake-handling variety clinched the election for the incumbent President.
While Im sure that Christians with faith in varying degrees of intensity played a solid role in Mr. Bushs reelection, theres a danger in leaving it just at that.
Rather than look inward to rediscover the lost core values that made the Democratic Party relevant to the American electorate, theyre going to spend the next four years trying to make the connection that theres little difference between the American version of Christianity and that of radical Islam, both being ignorant and reactionary. (of course, the Muslims are oppressed by Israel, whats our excuse?)
Whatever happened to the perception (and thats all politics is anyway, right?) of the Democratic Party as Americas Labor Party?
I believe that their present state of affairs goes back squarely to the worst, most venal American President in American history.
Have you ever noticed how the Democrats bandy about the names of Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and then Jimmy Carter? Wasnt there another Democrat in charge there somewhere?
What about the Dark Prince himself? Sure, Lyndon Baines Johnson, whos so-called War on Poverty was a cynical ploy, perhaps the most in our history, to secure the vote of an entire race.
Oh, yes, he also started and escalated the war in Vietnam, although to hear the Democratic Partys mouthpieces in the media, you might be under the impression that it was Richard Nixon, the guy who had to clean up after LBJ.
Instead of striving for equality under the aegis of Labor for all people, there began the Democratic tradition of entitlements, the model of which provided a legal blueprint for things such as politically correct speech, Gay and Lesbian and other so-called minority rights above and beyond what other (read White heterosexual and generally Male) citizens could expect. If youre squirming a little while reading that part, ask yourself why? Because its not politically correct, right? Where did you learn that?
I believe that the majority of Americans intuitively understand the concept of a Representative Democracy to be a government that upholds the right of the Majority.
Well, no wonder, then, that most of us have grown up in an atmosphere of collective cognizant dissonance: weve had to endure an Alice in Wonderland where an arrogant and aggressive Victim Class (and all it takes is one person of the right racial or sexually orientated persuasion to become a member) has dictated public policy via what passes for the Court system to abrogate the collective rights of the Majority, neatly bypassing the Constitution.
I submit to you, for Political Defense, Conservatively-minded people need to push to show that theres depth on our bench. I, personally, am an atheist, but so what? I understand our laws and culture to be an elaboration of Judeo-Christian tenets, so its not as if we dont have common ground.
Furthermore, the Conservative intellectuals need to stand up and be counted as such. The fallacy in our modern American society is, unless you have a Liberal Arts degree, you surely cant be an intellectual. Tell that to graduates of our service academies at West Point, Annapolis, The Air Force and Coast Guard Academies. Tell that to the engineers, physicists and actual rocket scientists, as well as the many Conservatives with actual Liberal Arts degrees.
Second, on offense, its time to start pushing the history of the Democratic Party, especially in respect to Mr. Johnson. If the media is deluged with a concentrated effort, some of it will trickle through.
Finally, in regards to the so-called celebrities who so vocally push their Platonic view of government, with themselves, of course, in the role of Philosopher Kings; they need to be constantly reminded that theyre paid an awful lot to be Court Jesters, and that they should just let it go at that.
Thanks for slogging through this.
Just to help your accuracy:
snake-handling Christians are generally denoted as pentecostals. Evangelicals are a broader conservative, less radical group.
The correct term is "serpent-handling pentecostals." And I think they have little, if any, connection to mainstream pentecostals.
good piece
and FYI: no squirming here ; )
Thats a very good point, and I stand corrected. However, do you think Old Media is going to make an effort to show the difference? Whereas the word 'Pentecostal' might have hard core 'Appalchian Revival Style' connotations to a lot of people, I would imagine that MSM is going to be spending the next four years associating that image with the word 'Evangelical'. Thanks for bringing that up, we all need to be aware and ready to correct that perception.
Please do, make sure to note the KKK history and the rat party, along with Senator Byrd being the only senator in US history to vote against both african american supreme court justices and who once taunted MLK.
Also note the history of Alger Hiss under FDR, feel free to talk about JFK and Clinton's womanizing ways. Feel free to mention how the democratic party instead of trying to work with republicans, chose to secede from the union and start the civil war.
Yea, they got a rich history, the rat party has been running away from it for years, Feel free to note that Woodrow Wilson was the first person to instal a movie theater in the white house and the first film was the movie "birth of a nation" which praised the KKK and which was Wilsons favorite movie.
As a member of the "Test Score Elite" your strenous display of education without understanding disqualifies you from speaking for no one other than yourself and your clueless ilk. Get a hobby.
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that YOU and YOUR clueless ilk would have trouble understanding this.
Let's try it again, shall we:
Ahem, Ah voted fer Presideent Bush, 'causen my Bible and Jesus tol' me so, so thar.
Is that better?
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that YOU and YOUR clueless ilk would have trouble understanding this.
Let's try it again, shall we:
Ahem, Ah voted fer Presideent Bush, 'causen my Bible and Jesus tol' me so, so thar.
Is that better?
"Rather than look inward to rediscover the lost core values that made the Democratic Party relevant to the American electorate"
ok...i'll bite. when have they ever been relevant?
my other point would be... who cares? i really don't sit around wondering whether the demons will figure it out. i personally enjoy what their hate does for the republicans. it makes us VOTE. maybe you could go help the fine folks on DU figure all this out. i'm sure they are looking for some fresh insight.
Correct, but I think his point is that is the perception the left is trying to put out there about all of us! Certainly this election was helped by Christians, but that isn't the only group out there putting an x by George Bush!
THANK YOU! yes, let's not forget that LBJ was the worst president, at least in a century, or more, but while he laid the foundation for the GREAT(mistaken)SOCIETY, Nixon
put up the building: Food stamps, SSI, Medicaid for chronic care, Quota based affirmative action etc. They should both rot.
The Pelosi's of the world really think their positions are in concert with America. They may lose the whole Senate before they figure out that their "religion" is anathema to feeling human beings.
In times past, the Pastor of a Chruch could speak openly about the pros and cons of politicians, it was a powerful call to right and wrong, good and evil, and it carried great influence. Thanks to LBJ the church came under the threat of losing it's tax exempt status to preach politics from the pulpit. The Church should have paid the tax and kept preaching. The black churches never came under such punishment for hosting demonrat politicians preaching from the pulpit for votes. That law should be repealed, the Constitution never called for a separation between church and state, it merely said that the government could not create it's own religion, it never said that government could not honor an existing religion by staying out of it's business, and repeal of this unconstitutional law would go a long way in assuring more Republicans in government.
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