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The Democrat Party is not your father’s party, and it is definitely not your grandfather’s party. In the 21st century, the Democrat Party has morphed into a party that your father and grandfather would not recognize. With the election of President Obama, this morphing became for the purpose of “Fundamentally Transforming America”, and this goal became ingrained in President Biden’s Administration. The Progressives/Leftists seized control of the Democrat Party and excluded the more moderate elements in their party, and the Democrat Party Leaders have kowtowed to this seizure for political electioneering purposes.

In this seizure, the Democrat Party Leaders and Progressives/Leftists have strayed from our American Ideals and Ideas as expressed in The Declaration of Independence, The United States Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and Other Constitutional Amendments. They no longer believe in our founding principles, and they wish to replace these principles with their own notions of Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All. Such a replacement is a violation of our certain unalienable rights, to be replaced with the will of man rather than the will of the creator, which can only result in a despotic or repressive government.

As such, I have gathered my thoughts on what the modern Democrat Party has become, and what they stand for, as follows:

07/14/21 The Party of the Rich and Powerful

A recent article by Victor Davis Hanson, “Democratic Party won't admit it's become the party of wealth”, contains some very interesting facts about the wealthy in America. Some of the most salient facts are:

“The two parties are switching class constituents. Some 65% of the Americans making more than $500,000 a year are Democrats, and 74% of those who earn less than $100,000 a year are Republicans, according to IRS statistics.”

“By 2018, Democratic representatives were in control all 20 of the wealthiest congressional districts. In the recent presidential primaries and general election, 17 of the 20 wealthiest ZIP codes gave more money to Democratic candidates than to Republicans.”

“Increasingly, the Democrats are a bicoastal party of elites from corporate America, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, the media, universities, entertainment and professional sports. All have made out like bandits from globalization.”

And these rich and powerful people and their Congressional districts are isolated from the rest of the (flyover) country. Many of the negative impacts of laws, rules, and regulations do not reach the rich and powerful or their neighborhoods, while many government actions positively impact their wealth and power. Increasingly, there seems to be a two-tiered justice and governmental system in which enforcement of laws, rules, and regulations apply to most Americans but not so much to the rich and powerful Americans. Much Federal legislation has special provisions that provide exemptions (especially for taxes rates and tax exemptions) that benefit the rich and powerful. Special access to Congresspersons and Executive Officers by the rich and powerful is the norm.

And much of this is because of the reach of the Federal Government into the everyday lives and commerce of Americans. The more the Federal Government legislates and regulates our lives and commerce, the more it is in the interests of the rich and powerful to integrate themselves into the halls of Federal government to influence this legislation and regulation. And this growth of the Federal government was and is created and expanded by the Democrat Party in the 20th and 21st centuries. And all of this growth of the Federal government was fueled by Progressive ideology on the role of government in society. A Progressive ideology that was often counter to the American ideals of Limited and Enumerated Powers of Government for the protection of Natural Rights, “Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All”, Representative-Democracy, and Government “of the people, by the people, and for the people”.

Therefore, the Democrat Party has become The Party of the Rich and Powerful and shall remain so as long as we have a Progressive Ideology that permeates government.

07/15/21 The Party of Double Standards

“Rules for thee, but not for me.”

The saying—rules for thee, but not for me—is a common one in reference to politicians, especially so in the case of elected officials who decide that they and their supporters deserve protections the rest of us are to be denied. This most often occurs with special interests groups, campaign contributors, and the rich and powerful. This has been the nature of politicians since time immemorial, and I expect it will always occur now in the future. But Que Sera, Sera (what will be, will be), and this Chirp is not about this type of double standard.

Rather, it is about the hypocrisy of condemning the speech and conduct of the opposition while ignoring the same type of speech and conduct of your supporters. It is also the hypocrisy of establishing laws, rules, and regulations for others while exempting or ignoring these laws, rules, or regulations for themselves. It is also about the hypocrisy of when Congressional leaders of one party wish to conduct business in one manner when they are in power and another manner when they are out of power. And most egregiously, when they decide on whom to prosecute for criminal acts based on their politics. 

The "Democrat Party Leaders" are quick to condemn Republicans and Conservatives when their words and deeds are beyond the pale, but they remain silent or pronounce excuses when Democrats and Progressives/Leftists' words and deeds are beyond the pale. Republicans, however, often condemn fellow Republicans and Conservatives as well as Democrats and Progressives/Leftists when their words and deeds are beyond the pale. And when Democrats do condemn fellow Democrats or Progressive/Leftists, it is because the political heat or poll numbers turn against them, rather than out of principles or convictions.

When Congress passes laws and the Executive branch makes regulations, they often exempt themselves and the Judiciary from these rules and regulations. This is done under the principle that one branch of government cannot interfere in operations of another branch of government, except in the oversight powers of Congress on the Executive Branch and the Constitutionality review powers of the Judiciary. While this is an important principle, it often makes the three branches of government immune from the laws and regulations that the rest of America and Americans must obey (especially workplace laws and regulations). While both Democrats and Republicans do so, it is often the Democrats that expand this principle to arbitrarily immunize themselves from the laws and regulations that the rest of America and Americans must obey.

The other more glaring example of their double standard is in the COVID-19 Pandemic rules and regulations that they imposed upon America and Americans. Notwithstanding the questions of the constitutionality of these rules and regulations, we have often seen the elected and appointed officials ignoring these rules and regulations when it comes to their own or their families’ actions. While some Republicans have done so, it is the Democrats who have most often done so.

When the Democrats obtain control of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and/or the Presidency, they often unilaterally modify or ignore the rules and procedures of the Congress and the Executive office to advantage themselves at the expense of the Republicans. And it is often done by the Democrat Leadership without concurrence by Democrat or Republican membership, nor with consultation with Republican leadership. Republicans rarely do this, and when they do this, it is often done by putting it to a vote by all members or with the concurrence of the Democrat Party Leaders.

Some of the more flagrant examples are the changing of filibuster rules and attempting to eliminate the filibuster, the improper utilization of reconciliation to pass legislation, committee rules, and procedures being ignored, Chairpersons of Committees disallowing questions from the Republicans and not allowing due process in the questioning of witnesses before committees, not allowing Republicans to subpoena documents and witnesses, and restricting the scope of investigations to only reveal half-truths. Many of the more flagrant examples of this were during the (two) House impeachment hearings of President Trump, and it can also be seen with the current House investigations of the mob violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, as well as the attempts to pass the current President Biden budget and infrastructure spending legislation.

The mob violence of the 2020s, which resulted in deaths, injuries, arson, property destruction, and looting, perpetuated by Progressives/Leftists, was defended by the Democrats, assisted by the actions of Law Enforcement by Democrat Mayors and Governors, and not prosecuted by Democrat local District Attorneys or State Attorney Generals. However, the mob violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, by far-right individuals that resulted in trespass, theft, and destruction of property was vigorously confronted by Democrat Congressional Laws Enforcement and is being fully prosecuted, and in some cases, being maliciously prosecuted.

The Democrats are quick to point out the double standards of the Republicans; however, utilizing the bad behavior of one party does not exempt your party from bad behavior. And as the vast majority of the bad behavior falls on the shoulders of the Democrats and not the Republicans, they must shoulder the major responsibility for this double standard. Therefore, the Democrat Party is most often the party that practices a double standard, especially when they control the reigns of power within the government.

07/16/21 The Party of Divisiveness

American is more divisive today than it has been for several decades. The question of the reasons for this divisiveness is important to be answered to mend this divide. Many have blamed President Trump and Republican Party leaders for this divisiveness, while many have blamed President Biden and the "Democrat Party Leaders" for this divisiveness. And they both share in this blame. But the underlying reasons for this divisiveness are the people who believe in “The Biggest Falsehoods in America” and those who espouse these falsehoods.

There is also the difference between Progressives/Leftists and Constitutional Conservatism in their interpretation of the Constitution, as I have written in my Article, “A Republican Constitution or a Democratic Constitution”. Progressives/Leftists and Democrats tend to interpret the Constitution in a democratic manner, while Constitutional Conservatives and Republicans tend to interpret the Constitution in a republican manner. A secondary difference is in their style of governance, as I have written in my Article, “To Be Rulers or to Be Leaders”, where Democrats tend to rule while Republicans tend to lead.

When you believe something to be true, you act upon these beliefs. If these beliefs are unfounded, then you will take foolhardy actions. As to your beliefs, you should always remember one of my “Truisms”:

"Just because you "believe" something to be true does not mean that you "know" something is true, and just because someone says something is true doesn’t make it true."
 - Mark Dawson

We no longer discuss issues and concerns within America based on “Reasoning” and with proper “Dialog & Debate” but instead argue for the purposes of political gamesmanship and political power. We no longer try to persuade Americans as to our opinions but try to impose our opinions on Americans. Name-calling, pejoratives, and sloganeering are substituted for polite and respectful speech. Compromising and bilateralism are considered a sign of weakness and are not tolerated within the political sphere. Legislation is stalled or discarded if it does not implement one side or the other policy positions. And most importantly, we have forgotten the meaning of Free Speech in America. This is the root cause of divisiveness in America.

While President Trump and Republican leaders have engaged in these activities, it is President Biden and the Democrat Party Leaders and Progressives/Leftists that have utilized the strategy and tactics of Political Correctness, Virtue Signaling, Cancel Culture, Doxing, Wokeness, Identity Politics, Equity and Equality, for the purposes of political gain. The Democrat Party and their supporters often use pejoratives (i.e., Racist, Sexist, Intolerant, Xenophobic, Homophobic, Islamophobic, or Bigoted amongst other pejoratives) to characterize their opponents rather than discuss the merits of their policies. The Democrat Party has exhibited that no compromise or bipartisanship is no be allowed, and their attitude toward legislation appears to be that if it does contain all that they want, then the legislation is not to be considered and scuttled. It is also true that the modern Democrat Party is structured on identity politics and the pitting of one group against another to win votes and achieve political power. Victimhood is also part and parcel of the Democrat Party divisiveness strategy, and victimhood requires another group to be oppressors. Consequently, all Americans are divided into groups, and it is possible for an American to be part of multiple groups instead of viewing Americans as part of one group – Americans.

The Democrat Party has forgotten our American Ideals of “Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All” require that each American be treated equally to all other Americans and that Government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” means all the people and not groups of people. Therefore, the Democrat Party is the Party of Divisiveness.

07/17/21 The Party of Racism

To determine who is racist is to first determine the meaning of racism. The most basic determination of racism is from the great speech of "Martin Luther King, Jr., - I Have a Dream":

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
 - Martin Luther King Jr.

When a person’s words and deeds are “judged by the color of their skin”, the person so judging them is a racist. When a person does not judge another “by the content of their character”, they may be practicing racism. When the laws, rules, and regulations of government differentiate between people “by the color of their skin”, they are perpetuating racism.

And the Democrat Party has a long and bitter history of racism, as I have pointed out in my Articles, “Slavery and Discrimination Rooted in Party Politics” and “Democrats: The Party of Systemic Racism”. This Democrat Party racism has morphed from overt to covert by the modern Democrats proclaiming themselves as champions in the fight against racism, but their actions reveal the true nature of their racism. The very social programs and policy agendas that they support in this supposed fight against racism are based on racial identity and the bigotry of soft expectations based on race. Social policies that favor one racial group over another are racist, social policies that expect less from one racial group or another are racist, and social policies that place guilt or victimhood on one race or the other are racist. And these social policies are the agenda of the Democrat Party.

The ideas of ‘Critical Race Theory’, ‘The 1619 Project’, ‘Black Lives Matter’, Systemic Racism, Equity, Reparations, Affirmative Action, and Special Benefits or Tax Exemptions based on race are manifestations of the racism of the Democrat Party. They are also antithetic to our American ideals and ideas of “Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All”.

Therefore, the party of racism in America is the Democrat Party.

07/18/21 The Party of Anti-Americanism

“My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”
 - President John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address

At one time, the Democrat Party was an American patriotic party, as the above quote illustrates. However, since that time, the Democrat Party has morphed into anti-Americanism in its beliefs. As the Democrat Party has drifted leftward in the last several decades, it has adopted many of the attitudes and language of the Anti-Americanism of the left. Socialism (or Democratic Socialism), anti-capitalism, unlimited free trade, open borders for immigration, and Internationalism have predominated their beliefs and speech. Denigration of American history and America’s achievements have become de rigueur in their words and deeds.

They hold America to a utopian ideal, and when America has not met that ideal, they disparage America. But no country in the world or history of the world has ever met that ideal, nor is it possible to meet that ideal. They do not acknowledge that America has brought forth more Liberty and Freedom, prosperity, and positive advances in the condition of humankind than any other country in the past or present history of the world.

Rather than improve America, they seem to want to ‘fundamentally transform’ America. A transformation for which they have no proof or evidence that it would be better for America and Americans. Indeed, many of their ideas have been shown to be detrimental when implemented in other countries. They are, however, good at making excuses for this detriment in claiming the imperfection of the implementation of these ideas in other countries. However, no idea of social order or government can be perfect as people are imperfect. And many of their ideas ignore or disregard human nature, and any social or governmental policy which does not account for human nature is doomed to failure.

Although the Democrat Party and its supporters profess to be patriotic, it is a patriotism based on their ideals and ideas of a ‘Democratic Constitution’ and a ‘Living Constitution’ which I will discuss in my next Chirp on, “07/21/21 The Party Hostile to The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution”. Therefore, the Democrat Party and its supporters are not patriotic to American Ideals and Ideas but to their own ideals and ideas.

07/19/21 The Party of Anti-Economics

From the Wikipedia article on Economics:

“Economics is the social science that studies how people interact with value; in particular, the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes basic elements in the economy, including individual agents and markets, their interactions, and the outcomes of interactions. Individual agents may include, for example, households, firms, buyers, and sellers. Macroeconomics analyzes the economy as a system where production, consumption, saving, and investment interact, and factors affecting it: employment of the resources of labour, capital, and land, currency inflation, economic growth, and public policies that have impact on these elements.”

Economics is a soft science due to its complexity and numerous interactions between the complexities. It is, therefore, difficult, if not impossible, to reach sound conclusions or predictions with economics. Economics is also a dynamic science rather than a static science, as a change in one of the complexities or interactions propagates throughout the other complexities or interactions, which then feedback into the other complexities or interactions. However complex and interactive economics is, it is real and important within society, or as the saying goes, ‘money makes the world go round’ - Paul Van Der Merwe.

Every law, rule, or regulation that government creates, modifies, or removes has an economic impact. Whether it is a small or large impact depends on what it impacts and the economic feedback impacts as a result. And all these impacts are subject to “The Law of Unintended Consequences”. Given the large size and intrusiveness of the Federal Government, we can safely say that even the smallest addition/change/removal can have a large economic impact due to the propagation effect of economics. Within the Federal Government, the budget, the deficit spending and the debt, the taxing, the expenditures, the laws and regulations, etc., have an impact not only on the Federal government but on all of society. And people and businesses react differently to these changes, which also adds to the economic feedback impacts on society.

And many politicians have little or no sense of economics, which is why they rely on economists to assist them. However, for every economist that states one premise, argument, or conclusion, you can find another economist the states the opposite, which is why you should be wary of what any economic expert states. And you should never take it at face value or create laws and regulations solely based on economics or economists’ opinions. Or, as it has been said:

"Experts ought to be on tap and not on top."
  - Irish editor and writer George William Russell

Most Congressional Representatives and Senators often started out in the law or education professions, and many started out as public servants (a nice-sounding term for a career politician). Some have been businesspeople or doctors, while others could be deemed community activists, along with a smattering of other professions. All of these, except the businesspeople, have had professions that are generally insulated from the daily forces of economic commerce. They have not had to meet a payroll nor expend monies for employee benefits, pay governmental business taxes or fees, nor implement governmental regulation into their economic lives. In addition, they have not had to respond to the economic law of supply and demand and competitive pricing. And given my own personal experience, I dare say they have no idea of the complexities of business overhead costs. To these non-businessperson politicians, these are abstracts, while to the businesspersons that are impacted by these laws, rules, or regulations that government creates, modifies, or removes, it is known as ‘The Real World’.

Many of the politicians and bureaucrats who vote for or implement laws, rules, or regulations that impact the economics of society do so primarily for political purposes and pay little heed to economics or engage in wishful thinking about the economic impacts. They pick and choose economists that agree with their policy positions and agendas and discount or ignore economist who disagrees with them. They also rely on static models of economic impacts as these models provide firmer but often less accurate predictions of the economic impacts of legislation and regulations. Alas, so it has been during my entire life. The question is not how to reign in the politicians but how to elect politicians who are more attuned to the economic impacts of government on society.

The answer to the question is for the electorate to pay attention to the economic impacts and ignore the wishful thinking of politicians. Due to the lack of knowledge on economics by the general public, it is often difficult for the general public to separate the wheat from the chaff of what politician says and claims about the economic impacts of their policy positions and political agendas. But the general public can determine the economic impacts by their pocketbook. The Republican Party and the Democrat Party are often at odds regarding governmental tax and spend economic impacts. However, as a generality (which is more or less true depending on circumstances), it can be said that modern America's economic growth and prosperity is greater when the Republicans have the reins of government, while growth and prosperity are often static, modest in growth, or in decline when the Democrats have the reins of government.

This is because the Democrats utilize static modeling to determine economic impacts, and often engage in wishful thinking about economics, and disregard the diverse reactions of people and businesses to their policies. They are also more concerned about public policy agendas at the expense of negative economic impacts, and when negative economic impacts occur, they are inclined to spend more monies to alleviate the negative economic impacts (which rarely works). After negative economic impacts occur, they often make excuses utilizing inane or nonsensical economic platitudes to justify their actions. Therefore, the Democrat Party is the Party of Anti-Economics.

07/20/21 The Party of Anti-Capitalism and Pro-Socialistic

Capitalism is the worst economic system ever devised by man, except for all the others. Capitalism's primary thrust is to provide as many goods and services and in as an expedient and economical manner as possible while rewarding those who provide the goods and services that other people want. No other economic system except Capitalism has succeeded in bringing the people the goods and services they want at a price they can afford or in a timely manner than Capitalism. It has provided growth and innovation that benefits all. Unbridled Capitalism can do harm, but tightly regulated Capitalism can do more harm. We must reach a balance in Capitalism between protecting the people and expanding Capitalism to promote economic freedom and liberty to improve the lot of all the people. Doing so will provide job growth and tax revenues, and therefore a better economic climate for all.

Socialism and Democratic Socialism, wealth redistribution, income inequality, tax the rich, occupy Wall Street, free education, free healthcare, etc., is all the same principle – Socialism or ‘You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.’ To implement these items requires that you take from one class of people (those that work and toil) and give to another class of people (those who do not work and toil). And it is accomplished through Government intimidation and coercion through threats of fines and/or imprisonment. The government decides what and how much to take and what and how much to give. This is not the same as taxes, as taxes are levied to support the necessary functions of the government for the good of all, not for the good of some. Therefore, with Socialism, the government is the master of all the citizens, and the citizens are the serfs of the government.

The above two paragraphs are excerpted from my longish Article, “Socialism is Acceptable”. This article also explains why Socialism is immoral, and Capitalism is pro Liberty and Freedom. For a fuller explanation and justification of these statements, I would highly recommend you take the time to read this article.

Today, in America and throughout the world, the belief that Socialism (or Democratic Socialism) is acceptable or viable has gained much traction. To believe this, however, is to ignore history and economic realities. For history has shown that any form of Socialism has economically failed, been oppressive to the Liberties and Freedoms of its citizens, and has impoverished the people within its clutches. While history has shown that Capitalism has economically thrived, liberated people, and raised the standard of living for those within Capitalism.

And much of these Anti-Capitalism and Pro-Socialistic ideas are being driven by "Progressives/Leftists" and "Democrat Party Leaders". Indeed, it is only on the Democrat Party side of the isles of Congress you will find any support for Anti-Capitalistic and Pro-Socialistic ideas. Unfortunately, this has been the history of the Democrat Party in the 20th and 21st centuries. Anti-Capitalistic Socialistic ideas that have disguised themselves in noble euphemistic phrases of; Entitlements, The Great Society, The War on Poverty, Economic Recovery, Economic Stimulus, Equity, Reparations, Human Infrastructure, etc., all for the purposes of "Greater Good versus the Common Good". All of these actual and proposed policies have a core socialist agenda – to take from one class of people (those that work and toil) and give to another class of people (those who do not work and toil). They also have the agenda of making people dependent on government subsidies and garner votes for Democrat Party candidates from those so subsidized. And all these policies have been Democrat Party policies. Therefore, the Democrat Party is the party of Anti-Capitalism and Pro-Socialistic.

07/21/21 The Party of Power

Our Founding Fathers were primarily concerned that power tends to grow at the expense of Liberty. That in human nature power is strong, and Liberty is weak, so, therefore, Liberty must be eternally vigilant to protect against the encroachments of power. By ‘Power’, the Founding Fathers meant Dominion of Government, i.e., the dominance of the people through legal authority. The Founding Fathers also knew that Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy often degenerate into Tyranny, Oligarchy, and Mob Rule, and they wished to protect the people from this degeneration. They, therefore, tried to assure through the Constitution a Democratic-Republic and the Limited and Enumerate Powers of the Federal Government, so that Liberty would be maintained and that we have leaders rather than rulers through free and fair elections.

With the rise of Federal Government powers in the 20th and 21st century, and the actions of Progressives/Leftists of Political Correctness, Virtue Signaling, Cancel Culture, Doxing, Wokeness, Identity Politics, Equity and Equality, and Greater Good versus the Common Good, as well as with the support of the Mainstream Cultural Media, Mainstream Media, Modern Big Business, Modern Education, and Social Media in condoning this increased Federal government power we are again entering into the anxieties and fears of Power versus Liberty. Many of the fears of the Anti-Federalism during the ratification of the Constitution have come to fruition with this rise in Federal Powers, despite the objections to these fears by the Constitution ratification supporters of “Federalism in the United States”. As a result, our present government is morphing into the Tyranny of Congress and the Presidency, an Oligarchy of appointed officials and the bureaucracies that support them, and a Mob Rule of the majority that does not recognize or countenance the Liberties and Freedoms (i.e., our Natural Rights) of all the people.

As I have written in my Article, "To Be Rulers or to Be Leaders", all of this increase of Federal Powers was achieved by Democrats and their Progressives/Leftists agenda. And all of this was obtained and maintained by the misleading and/or ruling of the American people. Consequently, the Democrats wish to be rulers and not leaders. America was not formulated to be ruled but to be led by the will of the people while protecting their Liberties. Therefore, to support the Democrat political agenda and socialistic goals is to be ruled and not led, and to be ruled is antithetical to the ideas of the United States Constitution.

With the administration of President Biden and the (slim) majority of the Democrat Party in Congress, we have seen them try to rapidly expand Federal Powers and to retain and increase their control of Congress, so that they can more easily pass their political agendas and socialistic goals. And these political agendas and socialistic goals all lead to more Federal Powers and the rulership of the Democrat Party over America.

The attempts of the Democrat Congress to pass the 2021H.R. 1 and S. 1 and different variations of this legislation that would federalize elections contrary to Article. I. Section. 4. of the Constitution that states: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.”, is an attempt to consolidate their powers as I have Chirped on, “03/06/21 Election Integrity – Part Deux”. This legislation would make it easier for them to cheat in elections in the urban areas of America, in which the Democratic Party controls the elections, which de facto makes elections unfree and unfair.

The Democrat Parties' past efforts to legalize illegal immigrants and give them the right to vote is also another attempt by them to obtain and retain power, as they believe that most of these votes would be for Democrat candidates. The Democrat Parties current open borders policy, which has allowed hundreds of thousands and eventually millions of illegal immigrants to enter America, and their subsequent efforts to transport these illegal immigrants to different parts of the country, is also an attempt by them to obtain and retain power if these new illegal immigrants eventually have the right to vote.

Therefore, the Democrat Party is the Party of Power rather than the Party of Leadership in America.

07/22/21 The Party Hostile to The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution

In my Article, “A Republican Constitution or a Democratic Constitution”, I describe the two major ways that the Constitution can be interpreted. The question is then, what is the proper interpretation of the Constitution? If you cannot properly interpret the Constitution, then you cannot be a proper defender of the Constitution, and indeed, you will be hostile to the Constitution. My Book It Articles on “07/01/21 The Library of Liberty – Part I” and “08/01/21 The Library of Liberty – Part II” provide a historical perspective on how the Founding Fathers meant for the Constitution to be interpreted, and my Chirp on “07/13/21 ‘Constitutional Originalism’ versus ‘A Living Constitution’” provides some guidance on the proper answer to this question.

In my opinion, a ‘Republican Constitution’ and ‘Constitutional Originalism’ are the only proper way of interpreting the Constitution. Any other way of interpretation leaves the Constitution hallow and meaningless, as each generation of Americans could freely interpret the Constitution in any manner that they so desire. A ‘Republican Constitution’ and ‘Constitutional Originalism’ is built upon a foundation of bedrock, while a ‘Democratic Constitution’ and ‘A Living Constitution’ is built upon a foundation of sand. A functioning government and society need a solid foundation to succeed; otherwise, the underpinnings of society are fluid and susceptible to breakdown and collapse.

A ‘Democratic Constitution’ allows for the violation of an individual's Natural Rights; if the government or the majority makes a determination it is proper to do so for the greater good (see my Chirp terminology definition on "Greater Good versus the Common Good"). Therefore, with this interpretation, the Natural Rights of the individual are subordinate to the rights of a group if the majority so deems, which is the antithesis of our Founding Fathers beliefs on the role of government in society as expressed in The Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

and the Preamble of the Constitution:

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

A ‘Democratic Constitution’ does not recognize ‘certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness’ nor ‘secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity’, but infringes on our unalienable Rights and Liberties.

The ‘Living Constitution’ is a deceptive euphemism, not a coherent theory. Proponents of the “Living Constitution” maintain, at bottom, that the Constitution means whatever five justices want it to mean. This plasticity is necessary, they claim, in order for our society to adapt to changing circumstances. But this claim ignores the broader play that Constitutional Originalism gives to the democratic processes to adapt policies to new conditions. And, by entrenching current policy preferences in the Constitution, the ‘Living Constitution’ approach deprives future generations of the very adaptability that it vaunts.

The Democrat Party has adopted the ‘Democratic Constitution’ as the basis for implementing its political goals and policy agendas, and the ‘Living Constitution’ as a means for the Judiciary to impose its policies and political goals. To accomplish this, the Democrat Party often redefines the meaning of words and/or terms in the Constitution, or it utilizes “Torturous and Convoluted Reasoning” and “Obfuscation, Smoke, and Mirrors” to justify the constitutionality of its political goals and policy agendas. They do so to shoehorn their political goals and policy agendas into the Constitution because they realize that many of these goals and policies are incompatible with the Constitutional “Limited and Enumerated Powers” of the Federal government.

Therefore. the Democrat Party is hostile to the American Ideals and Ideas of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. And, as such, they are violating their oath to ‘preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States’.

07/23/21 The Party Hostile to The Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights (Amendments I through X) of the Constitution is the essential Liberties of all Americans that the government cannot violate. They are based on the principles of the Declaration of Independence, which in turn were based on our Founding Fathers' beliefs in our Natural Rights. These violations of principles by the British government led to the American Revolutionary War for independence. The Constitution as drafted and passed did not contain The Bill of Rights, as the drafters believed that the Limited and Enumerated Powers clause of the Constitution would be sufficient to prohibit the Federal government from encroaching on these rights. However, many of the Conventions of the States that passed the Constitution insisted on a Bill of Rights, and it was agreed that the first Congress would amend the Constitution to include a Bill of Rights. James Madison (often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution”) distilled hundreds of proposed amendments into twelve proposed amendments, of which ten were passed (see “James Madison's Failed Amendments” for information on the two amendments that did not pass). I have written my own thoughts on the Bill of Rights in the following Articles, which are the basis for this Chirp:

• The Meaning of the 1st and 2nd Amendments (Nov 2019) -The Human Rights meaning to the first two amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
• The Meaning of the 3rd through 8th Amendments (Nov 2019) -The Human Rights meaning to the third through eighth amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
• The Meaning of the 9th and 10th Amendments (Nov 2019) -The Human Rights meaning to the ninth and tenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

The First Amendment freedom of speech is under assault through the actions of intimidation and coercion via Political Correctness, Virtue Signaling, Cancel Culture, Doxing, and Wokeness. It is also being suppressed with the support of the Mainstream Cultural Media, Mainstream Media, Modern Big Business, Modern Education, and Social Media, as I have written in my Article, "Who Needs Government Suppression When You Have Big Tech Suppression?". The freedom of Religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof in American is being restricted to the home and place of worship and not permitted to be exercised in public life or commerce. The right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances is being encumbered by rules and regulations as to when and where you may exercise this right. There is also an undercurrent of the fear of intimidation or prosecution if you exercise this right of assembly for non-politically correct ideas or support for candidates that oppose the policies and political goals of "Progressives/Leftists" and "Democrat Party Leaders".

The Second Amendment is under unrelenting assault by those that believe in gun control, as I have written in my Article, “Gun Control”. Gun control is a belief that is counter to our Natural Right of self-protection, the protection of our families, and the protection of our communities from the actions of criminals, mob violence, foreign invasions, and despotic government actions.  

Amendments Three through Eighth have been eroded by the actions of the government in investigating and prosecuting persons of interest for various statements and actions that may or may not be criminal. Originally these investigations were against suspected terrorists and their supporters, but they have now been expanded to persons who oppose government policies and actions. We have also seen the government investigating then prosecuting persons rather than actions. This is contrary to "Justice and The Rule of Law in America", as actions, not persons, should be the focus of justice. To do otherwise is to engage in a witch-hunt rather than the pursuit of justice.

The Ninth and Tenth Amendments have often been ignored or bypassed by legal sophistry throughout our history, but with the rise of Progressive thought and Federal government powers in the 20th and 21st century, they have almost become mostly irrelevant.

Today, the Bill of Rights is under assault by the tacit, if not outright support, of Progressives/Leftists and Democrat Party Leaders. Under the guise of Identity Politics, Equity and Equality, and Greater Good versus the Common Good, and with the support of Mainstream Cultural Media, Mainstream Media, Modern Big Business, Modern Education, and Social Media, the Bill of Rights is being morphed from the protections of the individual against government actions into government actions that limit our individual Natural Rights to what they believe is for the greater good. But the greater good cannot be achieved when Natural Rights are restricted, for when you suppress someone’s Natural Rights, you harm not only the person but society as well. Someone’s Natural Rights may be limited, but only for the purposes of protecting another person’s Natural Rights.

However, the Bill of Rights must never be violated if we are to be a society dedicate to Liberty and Freedom. Therefore, the Modern Democrat Party, through its words and deeds as outlined above, has become Hostile to the Bill of Rights.

07/24/21 The Modern Democrat Party

In my last dozen Chirps, I have examined how the modern Democrat Party has become antithetical to our American Ideals and Ideas. In these Chips, I have written that the Democrat Party has its own ideals and ideas on society and government. However, nowhere are these ideals and ideas written in a Declaration or Constitution that can be rationally debated. Instead, these ideals and ideas are often stated in platitudes, banalities, generalities, clichés, bromides, inanities, hackneyed statements, and trite expressions, which makes them difficult, if not impossible, to critique based on intellectual “Reasoning”. Indeed, many of these ideals and ideas are based on emotional responses, rather than reasoning, to the problems facing America.

And their ideals and ideas are fluid dependent on polling numbers. When the polls turn against them, they claim that they were mischaracterized, misquoted, or they disclaim that they ever express these ideals and ideas. Therefore, their principles are lacking, and their primary motivation seems to be for obtaining and retaining power. While they believe that they are doing what is best for America, it cannot be what is best for America or Americans if it violates our "Natural, Human, and Civil Rights". They also need to remember the real answer to the question as to what is best for America and Americans:

“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."
 - Thomas Sowell

As the Democrat Party also believes that they are more intelligent, better educated, and morally superior, they are, of course, always correct, and that they should be the only ones who decide what is best for America.

Many people believe that the greatest threat to America is either the Russians or the Chinese. However, these treats can be neutralized if the American people have the spirit and will to do so. The greatest threat to America is actually the Democrat Party, as they sap our spirit and will to take the proper steps to counter these threats and solve the problems in America. They are also a threat to our American Ideals and Ideals, as they wish to fundamentally transform America from a Democratic-Republic state to a socialistic state.

It is time for the people of America to educate and rededicate themselves to our American Ideals and Ideas. However, this cannot be accomplished until we turn out the Democrat Party from power, and they can reformulate themselves to our American Ideals and Ideas as our Founding Fathers envisioned them.  Or, in the immortal words of President Lincoln in his dedication speech for the cemetery at the Battle of Gettysburg:

“- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
 - Abraham Lincoln

08/07/21 A Loss of Perspective

With the New York Attorney General's findings on the sexual harassment actions of Governor Cuomo, the hue and cry for his resignation have risen. Although I believe he should resign, that is not his most serious offense that should have brought about his resignation. With the deaths of thousands of his citizens from the COVID-19 Pandemic because of his nursing home orders, and then the covering up of the cause of these deaths, he has committed a more grievous offense that should have required his immediate resignation. However, the hue and cry for his resignation because of these deaths was less loud and of a shorter duration.

These occurrences highlight an appalling trend in modern American society – A Loss of Perspective on importance. A Loss of Perspective that is predominant with Progressives/Leftists and being driven by ideology and power politics. The traditional values of murder, rape, assault, arson, robbery, theft, burglary, property destruction, and looting, etc. are serious crimes engendering serious consequences are being replaced with the violations of Progressives/Leftists values of Political Correctness, Virtue Signaling, Cancel Culture, Doxing, Wokeness, Identity Politics, Equity and Equality, as being more serious, and more worthy of consequences, than traditional values.

The mob violence that occurred throughout American cities in 2020, and the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, are other examples of this Loss of Perspective. The rioters of 2020 were treated with kids gloves by elected officials and law enforcement, and were verbally supported by "Progressives/Leftists" and "Democrat Party Leaders", and suffered few legal consequences for their action, while the Capitol rioters were severely and consistently condemned by Progressives/Leftists and Democrat Party Leaders and are facing the full prosecution of the law as I have Chirped on “07/15/21 The Party of Double Standards”.

For Progressives/Leftists and Democrat Party Leaders seriousness is defined by what supports or opposes their political power. Only when their political power is endangered, or their political power is enhanced do they consider words and deeds serious and then act. And their words and deeds are only to preserve, protect, or enhance their political power. These are the responses of despots and another example of the Anti-Americanism of the modern Democrat Party, as I have stated in my Article, "J'accuse!".

This Loss of Perspective leads us down the slippery slope to despotism. Americans need to regain their perspectives to retain their "Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All". To not do so is to give up on our American Ideals and Ideas and to submit to the will of the power-seekers.

02/20/23 Intolerance

Many Progressives/Leftists and Democrat Party Leaders claim that they will not tolerate the intolerant. However, when you define disagreement with their political agendas and social policies as intolerance, then they, themselves, become intolerant of a large percentage of (if not most) Americans. Many of these same persons will not even permit the expression of an opinion other than their own, as they believe that as they are more intelligent, better educated, and morally superior, they are, of course, always correct. In this silencing of opinion, they are committing the fallacy of infallibility as:

“[For people] to refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.”  - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

As such, when they are silencing opinion, they are being antithetical to our "American Ideals and Ideas" and our "Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All". This silencing also leads to "The Decline of Free Speech in America" and to "The Weaponization of Government".

In their silencing, they utilize the following tactics to achieve the silencing of their critics:

• Denunciations of isms—Racism, Sexism, Intolerantism, Xenophobism, Homophobism, Islamophobism, Bigotism, etc.
• Inculpation of Emotional Harm Infliction
• Insistence on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) correctness
• Invocation of Wokeness
• Requiring Adjective Justice
• Requiring Political Correctness from opponents
• Restricting discussion and limiting discourse to be constrained within Identity Politics by opponents
• The rightness of Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance (ESG) policies
• Threats of Cancel Culture
• Threats of Doxing Opponents

These tactics also increase the "Divisiveness in America" by pitting one group of Americans against another group of Americans.

Critical Race Theory and The 1619 Project are not only factually and historically incorrect, but the holders of these beliefs are intolerant of anyone who would disagree with these beliefs.

The radicalism of many in LGBTQIA+, ANTIFA, and Black Lives Matter does not tolerate anyone who would disagree with them.

The believers in Global Climate Change and COVID inoculations are intolerant of those that would disagree with them.

Anti-Semitism, Anti-Islamism, Anti-Christian, and the limiting of a person’s religious practices in the public arena are other examples of intolerance.

When those who are intolerant of people with whom they disagree, they often Cross the Rubicon into despotism to enforce their beliefs when persuasion cannot change the minds of those who would oppose them. In Crossing the Rubicon, they are endangering the Liberties and Freedoms of Americans. As a great philosopher has written:

“The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do otherwise. To justify that, the conduct from which it is desired to deter him must be calculated to produce evil to someone else. The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”  ― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Today, in America, those who claim that they will not tolerate the intolerant have forgotten that their own intolerance infringes upon the Liberties and Freedoms of Americans. They should be reminded of this when they engage in this intolerance, and under no circumstances should they be allowed to utilize despotism to achieve their political agendas and social policy goals.

02/21/23 J'accuse!

In my Article, "J'accuse!", I Accuse the Democrat Party of being:

• The Party of ‘A Living Constitution’
• The Party of the Rich and Powerful
• The Party of Double Standards
• The Party of Divisiveness
• The Party of Racism
• The Party of Anti-Americanism
• The Party of Anti-Economics
• The Party of Anti-Capitalism and Pro-Socialistic
• The Party of Power
• The Party Hostile to The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
• The Party Hostile to The Bill of Rights

The Modern Democrat Party has spent several decades morphing into these stances, which have become ever more apparent in the first two years of the Biden Administration. They have also become the party of "The Decline of Free Speech in America", "The Weaponization of Government", and the instigator of the problems of "Voting in America". I have, therefore, updated my J'accuse! article to include these three additional accusations, as well as updating my Voting in America article to include the shenanigans that occurred in the 2022 elections.

02/22/23 The Spirit of Liberty

As I have written in my Article, "J'accuse!", the modern Democrat Party has become hostile to our "Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All". They have neem largely successful as the American people have been somnolent in defense of our Liberties and Freedoms. Much of this somnolence is because of a lack of proper education on our Liberties and Freedoms, and much of this lack is because of the sorrowfulness of our "Public Education" and the perversion of education into indoctrination, as I have written in my article "Indoctrination versus Education". It has also not been helped by politicians, our leaders, academicians, and political and social commentators that utilize "Torturous and Convoluted Reasoning", "Obfuscation, Smoke, and Mirrors",  "Euphemisms, Doublespeak, and Disingenuousness", and "The Perversion of the English Language" to justify their transgressions on our Liberties and Freedoms.

It is, therefore, up to Americans to become more informed and to regain The Spirit of Liberty:

"The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias."  - Learned Hand, The Spirit of Liberty

This spirit of liberty is more than obedience to the law, as "The Law is Not All", for as the noted jurist Learned Hand has also said:

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it."  - Learned Hand, The Spirit of Liberty

Without regaining the spirit of liberty in our hearts, we will lose our "American Ideals and Ideas". It is, therefore, vitally important that we regain this spirit as:

"We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."  - Abraham Lincoln

08/22/23 Progressives and Systematic Lies

The three great progressive Presidents of the 20th century, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson, systematically lied to the American public, especially when it came to war. The extent of their lying is revealed in two books and an official government report. These are:

The Illusion of Victory: America In World War I by Thomas Fleming The political history of the American experience in World War I is a story of conflict and bungled intentions that begins in an era dedicated to progressive social reform and ends in the Red Scare and Prohibition. Thomas Fleming tells this story through the complex figure of Woodrow Wilson, the contradictory president who wept after declaring war, devastated because he knew it would destroy the tolerance of the American people, but who then suppressed freedom of speech and used propaganda to excite America into a Hun-hating mob.

The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II by Thomas Fleming Acclaimed historian Thomas Fleming brings to life the flawed and troubled FDR, who struggled to manage WWII. Starting with the leak to the press of Roosevelt's famous Rainbow Plan, then spiraling back to FDR's inept prewar diplomacy with Japan and his various attempts to lure Japan into an attack on the U.S. Fleet in the Pacific, Fleming takes the reader inside the incredibly fractious struggles and debates that went on in Washington, the nation, and the world as the New Dealers, led by FDR, strove to impose their will on the conduct of the War.

The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. Released by Daniel Ellsberg, who had worked on the study, they were first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The New York Times in 1971. A 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that Lyndon B. Johnson's administration had "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress."

These systematic lies were done to maneuver the American public into accepting a war in which there was much public sentiment against these wars. During the course of these lies and the cover-ups of these lies, they often violated the Civil Rights of the Americans who opposed the wars. They also engaged in vituperative rhetoric against their opponents, and many times persecutions and prosecutions against their opponents. In doing so, they whipped up mob passion against their opponents and warmongering against the nations that they wanted to wage war against.

These systematic lies betray an attitude amongst progressives in which they do not trust the American public to make a wise decision. They believe it is acceptable to engage in these systematic lies if it is for the good of America and Americans. As Progressives believe that as they are more intelligent, better educated, and morally superior, they are, of course, always correct. Therefore, they believe that their policies are what is best for all Americans. Consequently, it is acceptable to them to engage in systematic lies to implement what they believe is best for America and Americans. In this, they have forgotten or did not know:

"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best?" - Thomas Sowell

In the Progressive mindset, they believe that only they know what is best, and they should be the only persons to decide what is best. As such, systematic lies are acceptable if it is for the best for Americans and America.

Alas, these systematic lies of Progressives are not limited to war, for once you adopt this mindset, it is acceptable to engage in systematic lies in all agendas and policies that you believe are best for Americans and America. Thus, their mindset also applies to domestic and international affairs, and so it is acceptable for them to engage in systematic lies in all arenas to implement their Progressive ideology and ideas upon America.

08/23/23 Progressives and Fearmongering and Demonization

Since the time of the founding of the modern Democrat Party in Andrew Jackson’s time, they have engaged in "Identity Politics" and disdainful rhetoric in order to win elections to obtain and retain power. Disdainful rhetoric is nothing new in politics and has occurred throughout American history. Identity Politics has also occurred throughout American history, but it was usually based on nationality, religion, or race. Most of the time, the disdainful rhetoric occurred during the election cycle and cooled off (but never went away) between elections. However, with the rise of Progressivism, this changed.

Progressive started to differentiate on the basis of political ideology (with an attitude of Us vs. Them, Good vs. Evil, Right vs. Wrong, etc.) and turned to fearmongering and demonization rather than disdainful rhetoric. They also extended their attacks into the personal realm; in that they not only attacked the politics of their opponents, but they also attacked the personhood of their opponents. Reputational, financial, and judicial harm to their opponents was not only a goal to drive them from politics but as a warning to others that opposed them that they would personally harm them if they exercised their Freedom of Speech and Assembly in opposing progressives.

In doing so, they often utilized the tentacles of government in these attacks that violated the Civil Rights of their opponents. Indeed, many historians and lawyers have commented that the administration of President Woodrow Wilson was the greatest assault on Civil Rights since the post-Civil War. The administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt also engaged in Civil Rights violations but in a more clandestine manner. President Lyndon Banes Johnson’s administration also engaged in Civil Rights abuses, but often in a ham-handed way that the American people looked down on.

As fearmongering and demonization became effective in advancing Progressivism, they became part and parcel of Progressive tactics. And, as Progressives obtained dominance in the Democrat Party, it became part and parcel of Democrat Party electioneering and governance, as I have examined in my Chirps on "03/27/21 Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself" and "02/06/21 How Does Temporary Becomes Permanent?". We have also seen a dramatic increase in the weaponization of government (a form of Civil Rights abuse) by the Democratic Party to obtain and retain power for the furtherance of Progressivism, as I have examined in my collected Chirps on "The Weaponization of Government". Thus, we have entered into an era of "Divisiveness in America" and a loss of "A Civil Society" in America through the utilization of fearmongering and demonization by Progressives.

Many Progressives proclaim that both sides do it. Of course, both sides do it, as in the human experience, both sides do everything. That is the nature of humankind. Whenever there is an issue confronting our society, the extremes of both sides of the issue will often use the same methodologies and techniques to attack the other side. So therefore, the statement that both sides do it is irrelevant. The question is whether the mainstream and/or leadership of each side of the issue both do it and how much attention they pay to the extremes. In my experience, this is most obvious when dealing with Conservatism versus Progressivism or Leftism, Republican versus Democrat, Left versus Right, etc. What we should be asking is, 'Are the mainstream and/or the leadership of each side doing it?’. When you see one side or the other paying more heed to the extreme of their side or engaging in extreme deeds or words of their own, you need to weigh the balance. In weighing this balance, you need to not only make a determination of the number of words and misdeed incidents but also the tone of the deeds or words. If the balance is heavily tilted to one side, then the phrase 'Both Sides Do It' is not an equalizer but an excuse to continue the extreme deeds or words by the one side engaged in these extreme words or deeds.

Rather than convincing the American public as to the rightness of their ideas, Progressives have used fearmongering and demonization of their opponents to stampede the American public into accepting their Progressivism. A stampede that is driven by the forces of Virtue Signaling, Cancel Culture, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Doxing, Hate Speech, Identity Politics, LGBTQIA+, Modern Feminism, Wokeness, and Hyper-Partisanship, in an attempt to institute a Herd Mentality in support of Progressivism. Such a stampede impacts our "American Ideals and Ideas" and has negative repercussions on our "Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All".

10/20/23 A More Dangerous World

In foreign affairs, the modern Democrat Party has been all about giving peace a chance and depending upon the goodwill of those intent upon harming America and others that they oppose, most especially in the Middle Eastern countries of the world. Jimmy Carter’s debacle in Iran started a downward slide by the Democrats regarding dealing with terrorism. Terrorism increased during the Clinton Administration, and while the 9/11 attacks occurred nine months after Bush took office, they were planned and practiced during the Clinton Administration. During the Obama Administration, America has endured seven major Islamic terrorist attacks on its soil on Obama's watch, as well as the Arab Spring uprisings, a political crisis in Egypt, the collapse of Libya into a Civil War, and Syria’s bloody civil war. The Biden Administration has seen more aggression from Russia and China, while Iran and North Korea have become more threatening. The haphazardness of the Afghanistan withdrawal by the Biden Administration once again turned Afghanistan into a hostile country engaged in terrorism.

During Republican Administrations in this same time period, the incidents of world instability and terrorism subsided to manageable levels that did not threaten world peace. Thus, it can be said that Democrat administrations engender more instability in world affairs, while Republican administrations bring more stability to the world.

The main reason for this difference is that the Democrat leadership often sees the world for what they want it to be, while the Republican leadership sees the world as it is. The propensity of Democrat leaders to believe that goodwill will be matched by goodwill demonstrates their unwillingness to believe that self-interest, economics, passions, and a lust for power and influence of human nature is often the prime consideration motivating the decisions of other parties. Thus, they miscalculate the intentions of others by assuming the best in others.

Consequently, whenever Democrats assume control over foreign affairs, the world becomes a more dangerous place. This, alone, is a sufficient reason for the American electorate to be wary of voting for a Democrat presidential candidate. Until the Democrat Party leadership wakes up and smells the coffee, the world will be a more dangerous place with them in control.

04/28/24 Morally Wrong

The Democrat Party has morphed into a party of moral wrongs. Morally wrong on Anti-Semitism, Islamism, Racism, Illegal Immigration, Abortion, Transgenderism, Free Speech, Gun Rights, and a host of other Natural, Human, and Civil Rights issues. It is immoral to discriminate against any person, except for the content of their character and their competencies (i.e., Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)). It is immoral to persecute and prosecute their political opponents (i.e., The Weaponization of Government), and it is immoral to pit one group of Americans against another group (i.e., Identity Politics, Critical Race Theory (CRT), and White Privilege). It is immoral to take taxpayer monies from a person who has earned the money to give to another person who has not earned the money (i.e., Entitlements and the Greater Good versus the Common Good).

If it is a choice between doing what is morally right or politically advantageous, Democrat Party Leaders will always opt for politically advantageous. They are a party without principles except for the principle of obtaining and retaining power to enact their political goals and policy agendas.

They cloak their immorality in lofty words but implement dastardly deeds. Through the utilization of "Torturous and Convoluted Reasoning", "Obfuscation, Smoke, and Mirrors",  "Euphemisms, Doublespeak, and Disingenuousness", and "The Perversion of the English Language", they foster immorality. Many Democrats would claim that morality is relative to the circumstances and the context of the situation. But true morality knows no abridgment by circumstances and context, as righteousness and wickedness are bound by morality.

Thus, we have a party that wishes to lead or rule America, as I have written in my article To Be Rulers or to Be Leaders, and this leadership or rulership is without a moral basis for their political goals and policy agendas.

04/29/24 Intellectually Wrong

It is breathtaking to observe how Progressives/Leftists and Democrat Party Leaders are bereft of knowledge of Constitutional governance, economics, history, science and technology, and human nature. This lack of knowledge may be ignorance, but it may also be willful disregard, as when the facts and truths contravene their beliefs or political agendas, they disregard or dismiss the facts and truths. Many of my Chirps and Articles have dealt with their lack of knowledge of these subjects and the dangers of their disregarding or dismissal of the facts and truths, or as I have said:

"To deny human nature, economics, history, or science and technology, or to not acknowledge human nature, economics, history, science or technology is foolish. To do so will result in much effort, time, and monies being spent on a task that is doomed to failure."   - Mark Dawson

And failure is what we have seen in modern America because of Democrat Party leadership and Progressives/Leftists Activists and Activism. Not only have we experienced failures, but we have also seen Divisiveness in America and the loss of A Civil Society in America due to Hyper-Partisanship, which is leading us into Despotism in America. As I have written in my article, J'accuse!, the modern Democrat Party has become antithetical to our American Ideals and Ideas. Their being intellectually wrong has led America into chaos, a chaos that may destroy our American Ideals and Ideas.

05/02/24 Morally, Intellectually, and Scientifically and Technologically Wrong

In my Chirps on “04/28/24 Morally Wrong”, “04/29/24 Intellectually Wrong”, and “04/30/24 Scientifically and Technologically Wrong”, I point out how the modern Democrat Party has gone astray. They have abandoned Reasoning" and "Rationality, and replaced them with their Lies and Beliefs, and they have trampled upon our Natural, Human, and Civil Rights. In their going astray, they have become a threat to America, as I have discussed in my collected Chirps on "Threats to Democracy" and "Despotism in America". In addition, they are attempting to institute rulership in America, as I have written in my article To Be Rulers or to Be Leaders, as they are trying to establish an Oligarchy in America as I have written in my collected Chirps on "Oligarchy in America".

Their assaults on our free speech rights and their weaponization of government, as I have examined in my collected Chirps on "The Decline of Free Speech in America" and "The Weaponization of Government", threaten the very fabric of our Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All in America. Their proposals for the scientific and technological issues facing America are often unscientific and uneconomical and are, therefore, destructive to our economy and our social fabric.

Consequently, it is imperative to vote out of office Democrat politicians until they reform their party to be in alignment with our American Ideals and Ideas. To not do so is to allow for the destruction of our American Ideals and Ideas. In doing so, we should remember the words of President Lincoln:

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."  - Abraham Lincoln

Also, in doing so or not doing so, we should remember the words of caution from President Lincoln:

"We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."  - Abraham Lincoln

08/01/24 Absurdity, Nonsense, and Craziness in the Progressive Worldview

How the absurdity, nonsense, and craziness of the modern Democrat Party Leaders, Progressives/Leftists, and the  Mainstream Media and Mainstream Cultural Media agenda is the topic of this month’s Book It selections. In a new book Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History by Nellie Bowles, who is a Progressive journalist, as well as someone who was born, raised, and lived this life, she started asking questions and then began doubting what was being said and done by Progressives in modern America.

In a series of personal stories about her search for the facts and truths about what has occurred in America during the last decade, she illuminates the unpleasant facts and truths that the Democrat Party Leaders, Progressives/Leftists, and the Mainstream Media and Mainstream Cultural Media have ignored or covered up. And it is not a pretty picture. As she stated near the end of this book, these people are “. . .  in service of an ideology that made sense everywhere but in reality.”

Another recently published book by a former progressive, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities by Michael Shellenberger, looks at this problem by focusing on one topic— Homelessness in San Fransisco. Homelessness and the attendant issues of mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction, criminal activities, and unsanitary living conditions of the homeless, along with the fears of the neighbors living nearby the homeless.

One paragraph in particular struck me in this book:

“Words are powerful. The word “homeless” not only make us think of housing, it also makes us not think of mental illness, drugs, and disaffiliation. The word directs our attention to things perceived as outside of a person’s control, such as the high cost of housing, and away from things perceived as in their control, such as working, parenting, and staying sober.”

This statement reminded me of the quote of a very wise man in history:

“The beginning of wisdom is the ability to call things by their right names.”  - Confucius

Ergo, until we identify the true causes of “homelessness” by speaking their right names and addressing their real problems, we cannot be wise and solve the problem of homelessness.

This misuse of words is true for the other problems facing America. The Perversion of the English Language by Progressives/Leftists and Democrat Party Leaders to sow doubt and confusion to achieve their political goals and policy agendas is a despicable tactic that needs to end, as it is a hindrance to the solutions to the problems facing America.

Chapter 11 of this book, “The Heroism of Recovery”, is especially important, as it examines the importance of ‘victimhood’ in the homeless problem. This victimhood attitude is also important to society as a whole, as the victimhood viewpoint is responsible for many of the other problems in America. In Chapter 15 of this book, “It’s Not About the Money”, he further states about victimhood:

“The dark side of victimology is how it moralizes power. Victimology takes the truth that it is wrong for people to be victimized and distorts it by going a step further. Victimology asserts that victims are inherently good because they have been victimized. It robs victims of their moral agency and creates double standards that frustrate any attempt to criticize their behavior, even if they are behaving in a self-destructive, antisocial ways like smoking fentanyl and living in a tent on the sidewalk. Such reasoning is obviously faulty. It purifies victims of all badness. But by appealing to emotion, victimology overrides reason and logic.”

In Chapter 17 of this book, “It’s a Leadership Problem”, he sums up why the problems of homelessness continue to exist:

“How and why do progressives ruin cities? So far, we have explored six reasons. They divert funding from homeless shelters to permanent supportive housing, resulting in insufficient shelter space. They defend the right of people they characterize as victims to camp on sidewalks, in parks, and along highways, as well as to break other laws, including against public drug use and defecation. They intimidate experts, policy makers, and journalists by attacking them as being motivated by a hatred of the poor, people of color, and the sick, as causing violence against them. They reduce penalties for shoplifting, drug dealing, and public drug use. They prefer homelessness and incarnation to involuntary hospitalization for the mentally ill and addicted. And their ideology binds them to the harms of harm reduction. Housing First, and camp-anywhere policies, leading them to misattribute the addiction, untreated mental illness, and homeless crisis to poverty and to policies and politicians dating back to the 1980’s.”

Essentially, we are allowing Absurdity, Nonsense, and Craziness to permeate modern America, and this permeation is not restricted to the problems of homelessness. In trying to resolve the problems of Absurdity, Nonsense, and Craziness in modern America, brought forth mainly by Democrat Party leaders and Progressives, a succinct reason is that they have forgotten the adage and wisdom of one of our Founding Fathers. An adage and wisdom that should not be forgotten by all Americans before they cast their ballots:

"Well done is better than well said."   - Benjamin Franklin

However, doing something requires making hard decisions that may be unpopular with the electorate, social change advocates, or special interest groups. It thus risks the possibility of losing elections, which the Democrat Party is loath to do for the reasons that I have written in my Chirp on “ 07/20/24 It’s All About Power and Control”.

These two books, along with another book I reviewed on “06/01/21 The Liberal Mind”, go a long way in explaining how absurdity, nonsense, and craziness have arisen in modern America.

10/15/24 Leave the Democrat Party Behind

The modern Democrat Party has become one of intolerance for any viewpoint other than their own. As I have often said, as they believe that they are more intelligent, better educated, and morally superior, they are, of course, always correct. Therefore, they believe that their policies are best for all Americans. Consequently, the Progressives/Leftists and the Democrat Party are motivated to do what is best for them rather than what is best for all Americans. As such, they also have the propensity to be rulers rather than leaders, as I have written in my Article "To Be Rulers or to Be Leaders".

Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat Congressperson for eight years, has seen and heard all from an inside perspective. She has written a book, “For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind”, that is an expose of their lust for power and their utilization of any means necessary to obtain power, which has become the modern Democrat Party. In their self-righteousness, The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Liberties and Freedoms, and any person who disagrees with them be dammed, as their lust for power knows no bounds. The publisher’s description of her book is a good recap of the book:

“Tulsi Gabbard was the rising star of the Democrat Party. But the growing wokeness, fomenting racism, and intolerance were more than she could stomach, and she left. This is her story and a call to action to Americans who love our country and cherish peace and freedom.

Today’s Democrat Party is controlled by an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by woke ideology and racializing everything. They are a clear and present threat to the God‑given freedoms enshrined in the Constitution.

A soldier, former member of Congress, and a former presidential candidate, Tulsi loves her country: “I answered the call to serve and swore an oath, dedicating my life to supporting and defending the Constitution, both in uniform and in public office. I have always been an independent-minded person but became a Democrat when I first ran for office because I saw a party that stood up for the little guy, free speech, and civil liberties. That party is no more.”

Today that party is unrecognizable: undermining free speech, antagonistic to people of faith, hostile to the police and law and order, suspicious of law‑abiding Americans, supporting open borders, and using our national security apparatus to target political opponents.

Now an Independent, Tulsi calls on those who love America to stand up for peace, defend freedom, and protect our democratic republic from those seeking to undermine it at every turn. It’s time to leave the Democrat Party behind.”

Normally, I would make this book a Book It selection for the month; however, given the current presidential election campaign, I believe it is important to promote this book as soon as possible. I would encourage all Americans to read and ponder this book before they cast their votes.

If we allow the Democrat Party to remain in power in any branch or level of government, then our "American Ideals and Ideas", "Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All", and our "Natural, Constitutional, and Civil Rights" will be shunted aside to be replaced by a Democrat Party Oligarchy and governmental despotism. While this situation in modern America is serious, it can become grave, as I have discussed in my next Chirp on “10/16/24 The Value of a Single Human Being”.

11/01/24 Leave the Democrat Party Behind

The modern Democrat Party has become one of intolerance for any viewpoint other than their own. As I have often said, as they believe that they are more intelligent, better educated, and morally superior, they are, of course, always correct. Therefore, they believe that their policies are best for all Americans. Consequently, the Progressives/Leftists and the Democrat Party are motivated to do what is best for them rather than what is best for all Americans.

Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat Congressperson for eight years, has seen and heard all from an inside perspective. She has written a book, “For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind”, which is this month’s Book It selection. This book is an expose of their lust for power and their utilization of any means necessary to obtain power, which has become the modern Democrat Party. In their self-righteousness, The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Liberties and Freedoms, and any person who disagrees with them be dammed.

I would highly recommend that all Americans read this book and then take her advice to leave the Democrat party behind. I would also ask you to consider the words of RFK Jr. in a recent interview in which he tells the TRUTH about the current Democrat Party:

"The party that I grew up, with the party of John F Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, that doesn't exist anymore. In fact, there's been a complete inversion. The party that I grew up with was the party of peace. My father ran for president against the Vietnam War. President Kennedy never sent a combat troop abroad to die during his administration. He told his best friend the primary job of a president of the United States is to keep the country out of War. Today the Democratic party is the party of War, and the Republican party is the party of Peace. The Democratic party I grew up with was the party of civil rights, of constitutional rights, of freedom of speech, particularly the First Amendment. Today, it's the party of censorship and surveillance. The Democratic party that I grew up with was the party of women's sports. My uncle Ted Kennedy wrote Title IX to make sure that women had an equal shot to men in colleges, and the Democratic party today is not the party of women's sports. The Democratic party was the party that was skeptical of the domination of our government by corporate power. Today the Democratic party is the party of big Pharma, big Tech, big AG, big food, the military industrial complex, Wall Street, and it's the party of Dick Cheney and John Bolton. These are, it's a party that I absolutely do not recognize. These are the guys who wrote The Patriot Act."

11/07/24 Political Parties Change

The Republican Party and the Democrat Party are not your parents and grandparents’ parties. Parties change over the decades, and the last several decades have seen major shifts in both the Republican Party and the Democrat Party. The political goals and policy agendas of both parties are different now than they were in the past.

The recent election of Donald Trump has solidified these changes in the Republican Party with its shift to a more centrist and populist orientation of the Republican Party, while the Democrat Party has shifted more leftward. With the coalition of voters for President Trump, Identity Politics has been loosened in the Democrat Party, and it will continue to be loosened as President Trump institutes changes that are beneficial to all Americans. Rural Americans, so often ignored by the modern Democrat Party, have risen in prominence in the Republican Party. Manufacturing businesses and the jobs they create will be a focus for the modern Republican Party. Foreign policy in the Republican Party will be redirected to what is best for America and Americans, while internationalism will continue to be central to the Democrat Party. Economics, which seems to be an unknown or disregarded in the Democrat Party, will guide all Republican Party decisions. The rich and famous have little role in the modern Republican Party, while they have and will gain more prominence in the Democrat Party. Finally, and most importantly, the worth and dignity of the individual person and the Liberties and Freedoms of all Americans will be central to the Republican Party, while "Socialism" and "Social Engineering" will be dominant in the Democrat Party.

Thus, all Americans should be aware of these changes to the Republican Party and the Democrat Party and adjust their voting accordingly, if not outright changing their party affiliation.

09/10/25 Endowed by their Creator with Certain Unalienable Rights

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
 - The Declaration of Independence

“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”
 - Alexander Hamilton

“The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions”
 - John Locke

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) last week warned the American people that a Trump nominee for a State Department position was an extremist, cut from the same cloth as the Iranian mullahs and religious extremists. Sen. Kaine remarked that, “The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator — that’s what the Iranian government believes. It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia (sic) law and targets Sunnis, Bahá’ís, Jews, Christians, and other religious minorities. They do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So, the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.”

After Sen. Kaine had left the room, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) entered the room and said, “I just walked into the hearing as he was saying that, and I almost fell out of my chair, because that 'radical and dangerous notion' — in his words — is literally the founding principle upon which the United States of America was created." Sen. Cruz went on to reference the writings of Thomas Jefferson, from Kaine's home state of Virginia; and continued; “‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator' — not by government, not by the Democratic National Committee, but by God — 'with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'”

In an article by Jonathan Turley, “The Mark of Kaine: How a Senator’s Remarks Border on Constitutional Blasphemy”, he excoriates Sen. Kaine for this remark, as it exhibits a complete lack of understanding of our founding principles. In my opinion, no explanations or excuses from Senator Kaine can exonerate him from this appalling remark. Consequently, Sen. Kaine should be ashamed of this remark, and the Senate should admonish him for making such a remark. Professor Turley ends his article by stating, “He is, regrettably, the embodiment of a new crisis of faith in the foundations of our republic on the very eve of its 250th anniversary. This is a crisis of faith not just in our Constitution, but in each other as human beings “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”

This is but another example of how the Democrat Party Leaders and Progressives/Leftists have strayed from our American Ideals and Ideas as expressed in The Declaration of Independence, The United States Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and Other Constitutional Amendments. They no longer believe in our founding principles, and they wish to replace these principles with their own notions of Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All. Such a replacement is a violation of our certain unalienable rights, to be replaced with the will of man rather than the will of the creator, which can only result in a despotic or repressive government.

09/12/25 So, Who Are Today’s Nazis?

In a recent column by Alan Joseph Bauer, “Meet the Democratic Nazis of America”, he asks the question:

“Anyone can call another a Nazi. But who most closely resembles the behavior of the leaders of the Third Reich?”

He then lists the characteristics of the evil and depraved nature of the SS, SA, Gestapo, Wehrmacht, and other elements of the Nazi machine:

• Allowing No Dissent.
• Punishing Enemies of the Regime.
• Keeping a Strict Racialist Program.
• Willing to Murder for Political Gain.
• Lying as Required.
• Demanding Ideological Purity for Membership.

He then goes on to state, followed by an examination of each of these characteristics, as it relates to the modern Democrat Party:

“So who are today’s Nazis if we assume that the meaning is to be as ruthless and unbending as the originals? It would appear to be the Democrats. Let’s take a look at the new party of AOC and Bernie Sanders.”

This examination reveals how depraved the modern Democrat Party has become. He then ends his column by stating:

“The fact is that with the Democratic Party being swallowed whole by its left/lunatic branch, they can rightfully claim the mantle of the German National Socialist Party.”

This can also be seen in their Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) by their reflexive condemnation of all that Trump says and does. They also all follow in line with their leaders' talking points and practice these characteristics in response to President Trump and his supporters. Many in the Mainstream Media, Modern Education, and Mainstream Cultural Media also share these characteristics, as they propagandize their reporting, educating or instructing, and remarks in support of the words and deeds of the Democratic Nazis of America.

This is a column well worth reading to understand the words and deeds of the modern Progressives/Leftists and Democrat Party Leaders. It is also a warning as to a possible future of America if the American people allow them to succeed in exercising these characteristics.

09/13/25 A Litany of Lies, Subterfuges, and Concealments

Alas, the Democrat Party Leaders and Progressives/Leftists have a history of lying, subterfuges, and concealments to the American people. They lie to us about American history, as they place all blame on historical white Americans for the problems that beset America and the world. They perpetrate subterfuges on us about the miserable and deplorable history of Marxism/Communism/Socialism in the world, and about the cost/benefits and capabilities of a Socialistic and Capitalistic economy. They lie or conceal from us about the condemnable history of the Democrat Party, along with the negative and discreditable impacts of Progressive ideology on our Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All.¹  

Their egregious lies started when they lied to us about Trump’s supposed Russian collusion, and they continue to egregiously lie to us on everything they say about the actions of both Trump Administrations. These lies became a modus operandi of Democrat Party Leaders and Progressives/Leftists during the 2020 Presidential election, and they have continued to this day. Lies about Biden being a moderate unifier, and the lies to us about his mental and physical health, continued throughout his campaign and Presidency. And they continually lie to us when they claim that their opponents are Nazis, Fascists, Racists, or White Supremacists, as I have written in my Chirp on “09/12/25 So, Who Are Today’s Nazis?”.

A litany of the lies, subterfuges, or concealments during the Biden administration is long and shameful, but in my humble opinion, the following are the biggest lies, subterfuges, or concealments that they have perpetrated in the last few years:

• They are responsible for the lack of border security during the Biden Administration, and the impacts of human smuggling, drug running, sex trafficking, gang members and violent criminals’ admissions, as well as terrorists’ entry into America.
• They are responsible for the impacts that illegal immigrants have on government social services spending, and the taxation impacts to support the spending.
• They are responsible for unemployment during the Biden Administration, and for the impacts of illegal immigration on the employment of Americans.
• They are responsible for inflation during the Biden Administration.
• They are responsible for the slow economic growth during the Biden Administration.
• They are responsible for the inaccurate crime statistics reporting during the Biden Administration.
• They are responsible for the lack of law enforcement and prosecutions of criminals during the Biden Administration, and its impacts on the American people.
• They are responsible for the voting irregularities in the last two presidential elections, and for the 2020 Census miscounting and, therefore, the malapportionment of Congressional seats.
• They are responsible for the Gerrymandering of Congressional districts that has occurred in the States in which they have the political power to do so. A Gerrymandering that does not reflect the proportion of the Democrat/Republican voters in their States.
• They are responsible for the useless COVID-19 prevention measures and the negative impacts of these measures on Americans due to their COVID-19 policies.
• They lie to us about the necessity and properness of the Executive Orders of President Obama’s and President Biden’s Administration, and how both President Trump’s Administration Executive Orders were and are unnecessary and improper.
• They lie to us about the properness and Constitutionality of District and Appellate Court rulings against President Trump’s actions during his second term of office.
• They lie to us about the need for the interment and deportation of criminal illegal immigrants, and about the criminal records and moral character of those so interred and deported.
• They are responsible for the shameful withdrawal from Afghanistan, as well as for the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban Islamic extremists.
• They lied to us about the actual culpabilities of the Israel/Palestine conflicts, the causes of the Ukrainian/Russian war, and the Iranian nuclear capabilities and Iran’s support for terrorists.
• They lied to us about the causes, actions, and inactions of the January 6, 2021, “Insurrection”.
• They lied to us about the foundation and necessity of both Impeachments of President Trump.
• They lied to us about the Lawfare they engaged in against President Trump after his first term of office.
• They lied to us about the suppression of the Free Speech of Conservatives.
• They lied to us about the use of the autopen during the Biden Administration.
• They lied to us about the influence-peddling racket of Joe Biden’s family.
• They lied to us about the veracity of Hunter Biden’s Laptop and the claims that it was Russian Disinformation.

These are but some of the more egregious lies, but a full list of their lies is too numerous to list in this short Chirp. Their lies have become so various and sundry that they give testament to the old joke that you can tell when they are lying when they start to move their lips to speak. And in these lies, the Mainstream Media has been culpable by not questioning and revealing these lies, and the Mainstream Cultural Media bears some responsibility for unabashedly repeating these lies.

So, it has become in modern America, a Democrat Party of lies, subterfuges, and concealment. Lies, subterfuges, and concealments to mislead the American public for the purposes of obtaining and retaining power. As I have written in my Chirps on "11/01/24 Leave the Democrat Party Behind" and "07/22/25 Over the Bounds", the Democrat Party is only concerned with the obtainment and retention of power, and any lies, subterfuges, and concealments that help them obtain and retain power are acceptable to them.

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¹See my articles on “The Party of the People” and "J'accuse!", and my collected Chirps on "Progressivism and Progressives" for a fuller explanation.

09/14/25 So, Who Is Today’s Evil Party?

Evil, as a concept, is usually defined as profoundly immoral behavior, and it is related to acts that cause unnecessary pain and suffering to others. Evil is commonly seen as the opposite, or sometimes the absence, of good. It can be an extremely broad concept, although in everyday usage it is often more narrowly used to talk about profound wickedness and against the common good. It is generally seen as taking multiple possible forms, such as the form of personal moral evil commonly associated with the word, or impersonal natural evil, and in religious thought, the form of the demonic or supernatural/eternal.

Columnist Mark Lewis has an interesting point about evil in one of his articles, “The Democratic Party is Evil, And Has No Excuse For It”:

“America has always had murderers, of course, thugs, criminals, lewd fellows of the baser sort, etc. But what we're witnessing today is different. We're not seeing the isolated criminals who individually breaks away from societal mores, who is a social outcast, maybe mentally deranged, certainly morally so. No society in human history has ever escaped that sort of insect, which is why men have always resorted to some form of government (supposedly) designed to protect them from the dangerous animals who walk on two legs.”

Evil, for the purposes of this Chirp and as I have Chirp on "07/29/24 What Is Evil?", is defined as words and deeds that are an assault on the Natural Rights of an individual. As I have written in my Chirp on “09/10/25 Endowed by their Creator with Certain Unalienable Rights”, an individual has Certain Unalienable Rights that spring from Natural Law, as I have Chirped on "07/28/24 I Have the Natural Right". Among these rights are “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” as stated in the Declaration of Independence, and codified in the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution as:

Amendment I:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Amendment II:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Accordingly, anyone, or any group of people, who countenances, contravenes, or infringes on these Natural Rights is acting in an evil manner. If you examine the history of the modern Democrat Party, it is evident that they countenance, contravene, or infringe upon the Natural Rights of individuals in America:

• The mob actions in protest to President Trump’s second-term actions, in which people were injured, and property was damaged or destroyed.
• The racial riots in the summer of 2020, which resulted in the loss of lives, many injuries to people, and in which property was damaged or destroyed.
• Their conflating of Equity and Equality and their misuse of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) to implement polices that discriminate for or against groups of Americans.
• Their implementation of sanctuary Cities and States that violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution as the "supreme Law of the Land” and, thus, takes priority over any conflicting state and local laws.
• Their lack of law enforcement, or selective enforcement of laws, which strikes at the heart of the equal protection of the law and endangers Americans by allowing criminals to roam free to harm their Safety and Security.
• Their physical obstructionism of law enforcement officers in the performance of their legal duties which endangers all in proximity to these legal actions.
• Their use of Activists and Activism for Social Justice purposes which often infringes on the Natural Rights of Americans through the unequal treatment of individuals or groups of Americans.
• Their use of Cancel Culture, Doxing, and Swatting, along with condemnations of anti-Wokeness speech and Hate Speech accusations, for the purpose of intimidating into silence and suppressing the Free Speech rights of those that oppose them.
• Their use of Identity Politics and Intersectionality, along with Racist and White Privilege accusations to divide Americans, instead of uniting us in our shared principles of Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All for the common good of America and Americans.
• Their use of Judicial Activism to stall the lawful and needful actions of the Executive Branch of government, and which also usurps the Constitutional powers of the Presidency.
• Their use of Lawfare and The Weaponization of Government against their opponents, which instills fear in individuals or groups of people in exercising their Natural and Constitutional Rights.
• Their use of loathsome pejoratives to exacerbate Divisiveness in America, which deconstructs A Civil Society in America, and inflames the passions of their supporters. An inflammation that gives rise to rage and physical violence against their opponents as morally justifiable actions, as they view their opponents as evil and a threat to America.

All of these words and deeds give rise to Despotism in America, which is truly evil. And in all of these words and deeds, they are violating our Natural and Constitutional Rights, violating our Liberties and Freedoms, as well as being antithetical to our American Ideals and Ideas. As such, they have become an evil party in America. As Mark Lewis has noted in his article, “But what we're witnessing today is different.”, and it is different in what we are seeing in the words and deeds of the modern Democrat Party. Words and deeds, not of a loyal opposition, but words and deeds that countenance, contravene, or infringe upon the Natural and Constitutional Rights of individuals in America. Consequently, the modern Democrat Party has become an evil party, and they should be opposed by all Americans who value the ideals and principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.