The secret fascist Democrat war against democracy: Voting
for greater evil is no way to punish lesser evil
web posted April 16, 2018
President Trump’s March 23 seeming “betrayal” of his base validated the
cynicism of many that it is futile to vote Republican or to vote at all. I disagree.
Although I view Republicans as corrupt and dishonest, at least they do not pose a
threat anywhere close to the magnitude of that of Democrats, now controlled by the left. The recent Mueller-instigated raid on the president’s lawyer shows just how dangerous the left is. Democrat control of Congress will jeopardize the
Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of all Americans.
While
the political correctness assault on free speech, especially by
the media and on college campuses, has received widespread attention, the Democrat Party objective to
obliterate First Amendment protections, from assault by the full power of the
Deep State, is largely unknown.
College campus
anti-speech thuggery and media bias are bad enough. But these are
private acts that can be countered by courageous private
individuals. However, the war against free speech rises to a new
level when the full power of government is deployed against
freedom. Private leftists do not possess government's distinguishing
feature: power – to destroy financially, to imprison, and to
kill.
Were leftist Democrats in charge, I would be
sent to the Gulag for writing this article and this
site would be shut down for publishing it. That will be the overriding stake in
every election unless and until democrats wrest party control from Democrats.
Democrat vs. Republican Pretense
Three days
before betraying his base, President Trump claimed: "Pelosi's party in Congress is full of people who
tell their voters one thing during the election and then go to Washington and
vote" the opposite. That also applies to
Republicans. But unlike Republicans, Democrats are not only corrupt
liars, but also dangerous.
Ten Democrat
senators face difficult 2018 re-election contests: Baldwin, Brown,
Casey, Donnelly, Heitkamp, Kaine, Manchin, McCaskill, Nelson and Tester. However
much these senators try to trick voters into believing they are not wolves in
sheep's clothing, last year, only three voted
to confirm Justice Neil
Gorsuch. The Gorsuch yeas surely resulted from fear of fast
approaching re-election challenges. The seven leftist nays were
Baldwin, Brown, Casey, Kaine, McCaskill, Nelson, and Tester.
Political Dynamite
The votes against
Gorsuch signified what today's leftist Democrat Party seeks: dictatorial judicial
imposition of unpopular and unwanted policies upon unwilling
majorities. Justice Scalia often said: "If you want a policy
not mandated by the Constitution, persuade your fellow
citizens." This was his response to leftists unable to convince
fellow citizens of their nostrums' merits but who, instead, run to liberal
activist justices to lawlessly ram these nostrums down the throats of the
unpersuaded. The leftist playbook counsels intimidation and
dictatorship, not honest, reasoned persuasion.
Few conservatives
realize that the Supreme Court is now only one vote short of a majority eager
to ratify legislative denial of their freedom of speech. Justice
Clarence Thomas has pointed
out the obvious: "[p]olitical speech is
the primary object of First Amendment protection." He felt the
need to state the obvious when fellow
justices, "rather than going out of [their]
way to protect political speech, [went out of their] way
to avoid protecting it" (Thomas's
emphasis). The greatest significance of the Gorsuch confirmation is
that he will likely protect the heart of free democratic elections that Make
America Great.
In 2014, the ten named
Democrat senators did not face imminent election challenges. All ten
voted to abolish First Amendment protection for conservatives. See
the official
roll call vote and official
Democrat amendment to
mutilate the First Amendment. Fifty-four U.S. senators – all
Democrats – supported government regulation of speech critical of the
government, or, as they put it, the power to "reasonably limit" money
spent to "influence elections." Tellingly, these
anti-democratic Democrats voted to specially protect the press, an arm of their
party.
The Democrat
Amendment seems merely to limit money. However, money
is central to free speech because nowadays, television ads are required to
reach voters. If such ads were not persuasive, Justice Scalia pointed
out, "sophisticated politicians of all
parties" would not use them. Television consumed $2.8 billion in the
previous midterm election.
From time immemorial,
suppression of criticism has been essential to tyranny. What today's
Democrats seek, destruction of
self-government's core freedom, is as old as book-burning. Yet, eleven days before Trump shocked his base
on March 23,
Montana Democrat Senator Jon Tester, pursuing re-election, released
an ad claiming
he's a Trump ally. But, as noted, Tester opposed Justice Gorsuch and
the freedom of speech that makes our country free and great. This is
political dynamite that can explode Tester's campaign – if used!
Extreme leftists are,
in Justice Douglas's
words, "miserable merchants of unwanted
ideas; their wares remain unsold." Their
ideas unable to withstand critical scrutiny, leftists abhor free speech. The left tries to bully its
critics into silence, even seeking to eviscerate the Constitution's most sacred
words. Despite leftist
claims, there is little evidence of the right
(especially officeholders) trying to silence the left. The left has
a monopoly on calling their opponents fascist, while most on the right recoil from exposing the truth
that the fascism charge applies to the left rather than the right. A
conspicuous exception is David
Horowitz, whose reward is to need strong security
protection to speak in public. (I once
personally witnessed Horowitz being escorted by uniformed police through a
normally locked back door to deliver an address. When he needed a rest room,
the police first made sure no one was there and then waited outside until
Horowitz came out. The building looked like an armed camp.)
Dennis Prager contends that "the left-right battle [is] an existential
battle for preserving our nation." Nothing could better destroy
our nation than ceding power to the Deep State to determine the
"reasonableness" of messages intended to persuade voters. Well
financed anti-freedom hypocrites allege that something is wrong with spending money to
influence elections. What do they think is the purpose of political
campaigns? Campaigns to influence election outcomes are essential to
democratic representative self-government. The Democrat Party is a
threat to the very heart of representative democracy. If this is not
publicized soon, America will cease to be free.
Republicans cannot
rely on conservative media, which (a) largely preach to the choir and (b) have
ignored or forgotten that in 2014, all Democrat senators went
on record as opposed to free speech for conservatives. To win,
Republican candidates in contested elections should run political ads informing
undecided voters of this explosive fact.
Other Political Dynamite
There are two reasons
to focus on Democrat enmity toward free speech. First, it is sine
qua non of every political issue. Citizens cannot seek policy
change without a chance to explain or hear why. Second, it is
disturbing and shocking that Republicans have done absolutely nothing to
publicize the forgotten and ignored unanimous 2014 vote of all Senate Democrats
to limit debate on an amendment to limit debate on all political
issues. In a recent
political speech, President Trump discussed every
Democrat sin, except hatred of free speech.
Democrats must be
exposed as enemies of the fundamental freedom essential to
democracy. This should be sufficient to avoid Democrat congressional
control. But there is other political dynamite.
It is a hallmark
of leftist Democrat hypocrites to smear the right as guilty of everything of which the left is
guilty: racism, sexism, hate, Russian collusion, corruption, lawlessness,
etc. Space limits preclude extensive detail. But one item
should be emphasized again and again in 2018 Senate campaigns.
Racism. Not long after
trotting out a favorite Democrat smear, calling President Trump a "racist," would-be Senate
majority leader Charles Schumer openly
declared his vote against a judicial nominee
because the latter is a white male. Anyone familiar with judicial
nominations knows that opposition or support is based on likely nominee rulings
rather than ethnicity or sex. Who can forget the vicious Democrat
slander of Clarence Thomas, despite his race? Less well known is
that extreme ACLU leftist Democrat Ruth Bader Ginsburg faced no Democrat
opposition to her confirmation as a Supreme Court justice, despite the fact
that she did not employ a single
black out of 57 people she hired in 13 years
as a federal appellate judge.
Republicans who want to win should stress Democrat racism. Dinesh
D'Souza has described past and present Democrat racism. Justice
Thomas has noted the racist
origins of the Democrat obsession with suppression of
free speech. After the Civil War, because blacks then supported
Republicans, rabid
segregationist Democrat
Senator Pitchfork Ben Tillman initiated restrictions on corporate contributions
to the Republican Party. Finally, combining racism and sexism, the
most recent Democrat presidential candidate openly
expressed disdain for white women and the
white males in their lives.
Conclusion
I have
made no secret of my revulsion for faithless
elected Republican senators and representatives, who repeatedly lied to gain control of
Congress. Now Democrats will to lie to regain control.
Five weeks before he
died, Justice Scalia quoted Charles de Gaulle: "God takes care of little
children, drunkards, and the United States of America." So it
is no surprise that the American political system rarely provides a choice of
the greater good; the choice is nearly always who is the lesser evil? Those
dissatisfied with "lesser evil" Republicans should defeat them in
primaries. They should not substitute a vastly greater evil for a
lesser evil in order to punish the lesser. The consequences will be
irreversible.
Although, on March 23,
the president forced many of his supporters to conclude that the
Democrats already
control Congress, actual leftist Democrat
control of even one house of Congress can result in true Bernie Sanders socialism, greater protection for law-breaking and violence against
the defenseless, increased racism and sexism, and fascism.
As faithless as
Republicans are, they should stress – and easily document – what today's
Democrats represent: An End to America. If Republican
candidates fail to do so, they will deserve exactly what happens to them.
Tragically,
freedom-loving, law-abiding Americans, under relentless Deep State attack, will
not deserve it! 
Lester Jackson is
author of numerous articles about capital punishment, the Supreme Court, and
American politics. His recent book is Equal Justice for Victims: A
Blueprint for the Rightful Restoration of Capital Punishment. Copyright © 2018 by Lester Jackson, Ph.D. Originally in American Thinker; modified.