The main problem with today's socialist-minded Democratic Party isn't the Party but the people. The people unthinkingly created this Party like Dr. Frankenstein created his monster. The reason that the people did so is because ignorance of the Constitution and its history is epidemic. Widespread constitutional ignorance is evidenced by the following links.
http://tinyurl.com/npt6tAnd not only have the people given these scoundrels too much power, but the consequences of widespread constitutional ignorance persist. Because of their ignorance, the people are impotent to stop these crooks from partying the taxpayer's dollars down the toilet and from walking all over their personal freedoms, particularly their religious freedoms.
http://tinyurl.com/hehr8
Today's problems with our messed up federal government got started in the days of FDR. While FDR's intentions for the people might have been good, FDR's approach to rescuing the people from their woes has ultimately wound up in disaster. More specifically, constitutional flunky FDR's crony justice supporters were naively willing to politically repeal the 10th A. protected powers of the states in order to give the green light to FDR's constitutionally unauthorized New Deal spending programs.
Indeed, Jefferson noted the tendency of the federal government to seize power in times of trouble.
"The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797. ME 9:423This post (<-click), while addressing taxes, provides more details as to how FDR unthinkingly robbed the states of their 10th A. protected powers in order to start his New Deal federal spending programs.
And this post (<-click) exposes how corrupt justices then began using FDR's politically correct license to ignore the 10th A. to unlawfully stifle traditional family values, including the USSC's scandalous legalization of abortion in Roe v. Wade. Note that the post first references two non-abortion cases in order to show Roe v. Wade in a different, troubling perspective.
In fact, consider that the states have the constitutional power (10th A.) to authorize public schools to lead non-mandatory (14th A.) classroom discussions on the pros and cons of evolution, creationism and ID, as examples, regardless that atheists, separatists, pagan-minded judges and the MSM are misleading the people to think that doing such things in public schools is unconstitutional.
The people need to reconnect with the Founder's division of federal and state government powers. The people then need to wise up to the major problems that, since the days of FDR's dirty politics, Congress has not only been operating outside the restraints of the federal Constitution, particularly where constitutionally unauthorized federal spending is concerned, but the USSC has wrongly been ignoring the 10th A. protected power of the states to address religious issues.
The bottom line is that the people need to get in the faces of judges, demanding that judges uphold their oaths to defend the 10th A. protected powers of the states to address religious issues - or get off the bench. The people also need to get in the faces of members of Congress, demanding a stop to constitutionally unauthorized federal spending while appropriately lowering federal taxes - or get out of DC.
Lincoln put it this way.
"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." --Abraham Lincoln, Political debates between Lincoln and Douglas, 1858.
Thanks for your post. I recall my late father born in 1918, who was a three war combat vet. His comments about FDR were basically that FDR told Americans- “ sit on your ass, smoke a camel, welcome to the promised land.” That is exactly what I recall.