Democrats, your party no longer stands for you

Tom Seaver | PortHuron

Don’t look now, long-time Democrat voter, but the party to which you’ve been faithful has left you. It no longer represents your truly American principles. Screaming, far-left millennials, often abetted by black-masked, Antifa anarchist thugs, are shutting down conservative free speech on our college campuses. Conservative legislators and their supporters are harassed and driven out of restaurants by threatening, in-your-face liberals. Progressive demonstrations are often marked not only by disgusting amounts of trash, but even by destruction resulting from “smash-and-burn” tactics.

Former First Lady Hillary Clinton recently assured her Democratic faithful that after their party wins control of the House in November, “we can be civil again.”

When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, many Americans were hopeful that he would use his bully-pulpit influence to encourage and challenge young black men to stay in school and strive to become responsible husbands and fathers. It was very disappointing when, instead, he seemed to ignore their self-destructive decision-making and encourage racial division in the U.S.

Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, sued several state attorneys general to prevent them from removing deceased voters and those who had re-located to another precinct from the rolls. Why would Democrats not want clean voter rolls? And why would their party actively work to prevent photo ID requirements for casting a ballot? Surveys reveal that every voter demographic group, both racial and political, is in favor of mandatory photo IDs to vote.

Our nation’s Democratic leaders have traditionally supported a wall on our southern border to regulate immigration; however, now a hunger for votes at all costs has changed their focus and they actively promote lawless sanctuary cities and states. When part of our country decides it no longer has to obey our statutes, we all suffer. Ours is a nation of laws and we flout them to our peril.

The Democrat Party supports affirmative action and quotas for college admission and employee hiring. This is a real insult to those they are trying to “help,” equivalent to saying they are incapable of doing it by themselves. Rather than keeping our disadvantaged citizens dependent on entitlements (ADC, food stamps, Medicaid, subsidized housing, etc.), hoping to harvest their votes, we should be motivating them to take advantage of available opportunities for personal and family betterment.

The Republican Party has long been an advocate for the oppressed. Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator was our first GOP president; Constitutional Amendments 13-15 (freedom, citizenship and voting rights for former slaves) were enacted back in the 19th century by Congressional Republicans, with almost zero Democratic support. Then in 1964, the Civil Rights Act, fought for by Martin Luther King Jr. and JFK, was pushed through Congress by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson, with 80 percent of Republicans and 60 percent of Democrats supporting the historic measure.

And the GOP platform also contains firm support for the rights of our most vulnerable, the unborn. The Democrat Party, on the other hand, venerates Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, who considered minorities, immigrants and poor people “human weeds … who never should have been born.”

Minority unemployment is now at an all-time low; Pastor Brunson and many others have been released from unlawful captivity in foreign countries; fairer trade agreements are being developed with our international partners; the cruel regime known as ISIS has been driven out of Iraq and Syria; and there is finally real progress toward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. This has all transpired in spite of continual resistance from the left.

How will you respond on Nov. 6? By voting as you have in the past or by choosing a better way? Think about it.

Tom Seaver lives in Kimball Township. Contact him at tracktom@comcast.net.