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THE NEW SOCIAL DEMOCRACY (Part II)
Social Democracy in America
by H. David Blalock
One of the best representative Democrat administrations just left office. Its priorities included the institution of universal health care, expansion of welfare, and increased federal government presence in schools, business, and nearly every walk of life. The Democratic Party maintains that changes to the current tax structure can only benefit the rich, that lowering taxes harms the common man and denies basic rights to the poor and infirm. This definition of the have and have-nots is heavily reminiscent of the definitions in a document published near the end of the 19th century.
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other..."
This class differentiation has become a major point of political issue espoused by the Democratic Party, especially in the last 15 years.
[The upper class]" ...has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms has set up that single, unconscionable freedom --- Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation."
The most vocal proponents of the Democratic Party maintain the Religious Right is in league with the rich to undermine social programs and eliminate the separation between church and state. Using this argument, the Democratic Party becomes the champion of an ideology void of moral code in preference to expediency of moral definition. Witness Mr. Clinton's "That depends on what the definition of 'is' is."
The Democratic Party has definitive goals, goals that "...cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property..." These will include "abolition of property in land..., a heavy progressive or graduated income tax..., abolition of all right of inheritance...," and the forced "education of children in public schools."
Under the guise of being the champion of the working man, the Democratic party is importing an ideology into American life that generations of our citizens opposed on principle, in practice, and with the sacrifice of their very lives.
If it has not become evident where this information originates, the entire document is available under its originally printed title: "Manifesto of the Communist Party".
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