Frustration with division and gridlock in Washington lead many Americans
to impugn both political parties for the current broken and ineffective state
of government. There is plenty of blame to go around, but below the surface
there has been a quiet revolution going on in only one of the two parties --
the Democratic Party -- which is the main source of today’s irreconcilable
division and moral confusion. What’s remarkable is how the political and cultural
center of American values has collapsed in the last two and a half decades with
the Democratic Party having moved dramatically to the left. Recently,
Democratic National Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz could not explain the
difference between the modern Democratic Party platform and that of socialism..... If people
today could somehow be transported back to the time of Harry Truman and Jack
Kennedy, they would swear those standard bearers were Republicans with little
in common with today’s Democratic Party. ….. Lenin argued that it was necessary for a
relatively small number of vanguard leaders -- professional revolutionaries --
to advance the revolutionary cause by working themselves into positions of
influence. By taking over the commanding heights of labor unions, the press,
the universities, and professional and religious organizations, a relatively
small number of revolutionaries could multiply their influence and exercise
political leverage over their unwitting constituents and society at large…...... a crowning achievement: the recruitment of young
idealistic radicals -- Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama -- who would go on to
climb to the top of political power in the Democratic Party……..To Read More........
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