Don's Tuesday Column

         THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   2/05/2019

        Racist, baby-killing, anti-Jew Dems

The State of the Union: Widespread incivility and ideological war, a disunited nation that needs one side to win and dominate to preserve the union. To wit, “A nation divided cannot stand.” To anyone that might have in times past considered themselves—or maybe still do—to be a moderate, America-cherishing, Republican-accepting Democrat, I offer an olive branch. “Can’t we all just get along?

First, however, there must be a common acceptance of the idea that America’s divisions, hatred and intolerance have existed and grown for most of my adult life. Heck, America hardly invented partisan passions and political power struggles. They have been a source of friction throughout civilization, held in check, for the most part, by governments that exercised central power by a sovereign or dominant group.

America’s very formation and chosen Constitutional order of self-governance reflected the then-growing demand by those ruled to participate in the decisions imposed upon them. Our Framers went to great lengths to “constitute” our government so as to prevent powerful “factions” from dominating others, as has evolved in our two-party system where the winners seek all power.

Consider the words of Jonathan Turley, of George Washington University (and furthest from an intemperate partisan as you could find) in “Donald Trump is completely transforming the Democrats” (USA Today, 12/29/18): “Washington has long been a stranger to principle other than the principle of self advancement. Yet something new seems to be emerging across the country. Politicians have long felt the need to disguise raw political agendas in the pretense of principle. That pretense has disappeared.

“In this age of rage, voters seem to have no patience, let alone need, for leaders speaking of abstract principles. They want immediate unequivocal action in supporting or opposing President Trump. For Democrats, that all consuming purpose has led to the abandonment of core unifying values, including many that first drew me to the Democratic Party. While they would vehemently deny it, Trump is remaking the party in his inverse image.”

I see it more as Trump taking the raw, partisan “Rules for Radicals,” that have guided progressive Democratic strategy and tactics for decades, and turning it against them. President Donald Trump may have learned lessons from California’s H.L. Richardson, who wrote “Confrontational Politics,” a relatively short book that diagnosed the leftist tactics of aggressive confrontation to mercilessly advance their causes. Our side, the conservative plurality, has been guided by a reluctance to meet such hard-charging tactics in kind, preferring to trust the merit of our principles and ideology to carry public opinion and elections.

The advancement, the virtual march, of leftist positions and causes through the educational world, the arts, entertainment and legal realms, has supported the political fortunes of liberalism in electoral politics. Those gains have then spurred the growth of leftism in permanent bureaucracies and in the judiciary; the so-called “deep state” and the robed near-despotism of unelected judges.

How is it other than racist for the rise of blatantly anti-Caucasian philosophies of “white privilege” as a means of denigrating and marginalizing the role of white men primarily, nearly insisting that “white’s not alright”? How else to characterize the blatant anti-Asian-American bias in higher education? Ivy League schools like Harvard manipulate their admissions guidelines to de-emphasize academic achievement and other objective personal accomplishments, where Asian-Americans excel; they then give excessive weight to nebulous, subjective qualities like life challenges overcome and personality (favoring minorities).

That sort of race-based preferences could not survive without left-leaning federal agencies and ideologically-driven judges steeped in “critical race” theories. Reverse racism then abounds in secondary schools when disciplinary standards—driven most recently by Obama DOE “disparate impact” guidance letters—demanded that punishment for misbehavior be matched to racial quotas. Objective studies, and anecdotal reports from students and faculty, found that classroom discipline declined, taking academic advancement with it, as teachers and administrators simply allowed misbehavior, to avoid DOE sanctions.

Remember this when being lectured by leftist Democrats, apparently oblivious to the history of their party—from Copperhead anti-Lincoln origins in the Northern States (effectively pro-slavery partisans), to segregationist, voting-rights-suppressing Ku Klux Klansmen, to anti-lynching law opponents, to Civil Rights Act filibustering racist Senators.

Never forget that Planned Parenthood originated under Margaret Sanger, who stated that one purpose of abortion was to reduce the birthrates of what to her were less desirable “Negro” mothers. Look it up. That takes us full circle to the current baby-killing legal push for “abortion” up to the moment of birth, disproportionately reducing African-American “pregnancy products.” Mass-murdering abortionist Kermit Gosnell of the abhorrent Philadelphia clinics, err slaughterhouses, was only ahead of his times if current New York and Virginia Democrats are to be taken seriously.

One belief of current Congressional Democrats is a thinly-veiled acceptance of “destroy Israel from the Earth” policies, ultimately preferring Palestinian dominance through the despicable “Boycott, Divest and Sanction” movement. Once confined to loony college splinter groups, it now seeks respectability via not only elected Muslim Democrats in Congress, but in progressive managers of university funds and public employee retirement accounts. They can’t be both pro-Jew and anti-Israel.

Turley rightly points to the Trump-driven Democrat turnabouts: Then, the “Red Scare” was bad because Russian Communism, well, wasn’t; now, evil intent alone accounts for Trump/Russia (fictional) collusion that stole the election from Hillary. Then, Middle East wars started by the Bushes were to be stopped and/or ended; now, Trump is appalling for wanting to withdraw from Syria and Afghanistan.

“Democrats once were the party that fought against the misuse of secret classification laws by the FBI and other agencies. They demanded greater transparency from the executive branch…” Now, Democrats have condemned Republicans for seeking FISA documents behind the FBI investigation of Trump et al. Seeking disclosures, i.e. transparency, is now evidence of nearly treasonous undermining of law enforcement. If they didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.