The Democrats want to exterminate the Republican Party

Gerard Jackson
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 26 July 2004

As an Australian and a great admirer of America, I am still despondent over the lasting damage Gore's inordinate ambitions and lust for power did to her.

I had thought that fear of a severe electoral backlash would force the Democrats to accept the Constitutional rules, because fear is all they seem to understand. However, their filibustering tactics and sabotaging of judicial appointments demonstrates that they have brazenly abandoned all respect for the Constitution niceties.

It is patently obvious that the Democratic Party — meaning its intolerant activist core — is ceasing to be democratic, except in the Leninist sense of the word, and that a totalitarian undercurrent now runs throughout the party.

American politics has always had its ruthless side, as does politics everywhere, and has been at times truly dirty. But there was a tacit understanding among all parties that if nothing else the rules would be obeyed, no matter how loosely. Moreover, once a presidential winner was declared that was to be the end of the matter. (The last time that rule was openly defied civil erupted).

This was possible because the right of political opponents to exist was never questioned, so long as they abided by the Constitution. By the time Richard Nixon was elected president it was becoming clear to some that many Democrats saw Republicans as an illegitimate political force and even evil.

At the time the vast majority of observers mistakenly ascribed this deep hostility to the Republican Party as just hatred of Nixon when in reality Nixon was just the focus of the left's hatred of Republicans.

I think Reagan's election opened many more eyes to the Democrats' changed nature. Despite Reagan's popularity and indisputable political victories the Democratic core and its allies in the mainstream media and the universities never accepted the legitimacy of his presidency.

In fact, the role that much of the American media, especially the major networks, have played in subverting the Constitution and the country's democratic values is one of pure infamy, with the New York Times playing a particularly shameful role.

The moment of revelation for thinking Americans should have been when Gore stated he would stand by the Constitution while revealing his elastic understanding of that great document to mean that the only 'Constitutional' outcomes that he and his supporters find acceptable are those they personally favour, thereby effectively putting the American Constitution on the same footing as Stalin's.

Fascist is the one word that neatly and honestly describes what the Democrats did in Florida. And just as the fascists did they will use the "Big Lie" to perpetuate their myth: In this case they were cheated. A lie that the mainstream media will continue to echo just as it will be echoed throughout America's leftwing dominated universities and colleges. A lie that even now reverberates throughout the mainstream media and academia.

And that Lie had to be shouted out so loud and so often that it would eventually drive out the truth and suffocate criticism because this was part of the Democrats' war of political extermination. A war against, in Gore's own words, "evil", meaning the Republicans.

That there was no electoral fraud by the Republicans does not matter. That Republicans did not commit any electoral irregularities does not matter. That it is a lie that 19,000 Gore votes were invalidated did not matter. That it is a lie that he who wins the popular vote is always supposed to win the presidency did not matter.

Even winning is not what really matters. To the Democrats winning is now part of the process of destroying all effective political opposition. And this is why the Democrats are apparently prepared even at this late stage to wage a vicious war of attrition against Bush's judicial appointees.

This is also why Democrats in Texas felt confident enough to use extra-legal means to paralyse the legislature and sabotage a vote on redistricting plan, knowing full well that the likes of the ABC, CNN and NBC would act as willing accomplices.

It is all part of their process of delegitimisation. America is now experiencing a small example of what the Fascists did in Italy in the twenties and what the Communists and Nazis did to the Weimar Republic.

Unless enough Americans wake up to what the Democrats are really about their Constitution will eventually become a worthless piece of paper, the Bill of Rights meaningless, their liberties provisional and the history of their struggle for liberty lost.

This will be an incremental and inexorable process and not something that happens overnight — but happen it will if the hardcore Democrats ever succeed in destroying the Republicans as a political force.

Gerard Jackson is Brookes' economics editor