{"id":2946,"date":"2020-07-31T11:13:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T11:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/31\/democrat-extremism-has-deep-roots\/"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:13:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T11:13:52","slug":"democrat-extremism-has-deep-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/31\/democrat-extremism-has-deep-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Extremism Has Deep Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issues and Insights<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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While the Democrats\u2019 lurch to port looks like a recent event, it\u2019s been decades in the making. The party has been a comfortable home to closeted authoritarians for decades. Its big government agenda is a safe harbor for socialists, statists, coercionists, and sworn enemies of liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n

Democrats have a history of rejecting civil society in favor of political society. They have long believed all ills, both the real and imagined, can and should be resolved by government intervention. The party has rejected freedom and individualism and adopted a collectivist mindset that needs a fortune (always someone else\u2019s) in tax revenues to function.<\/span><\/p>\n

A man is known by the company he keeps and this is true of political parties. Long before anyone was wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt, Democrats were supporting some of history\u2019s worst tyrants. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is a Sandinista devotee, as is Sanders, who made a \u201csympathizer<\/a>\u201d trip to the Soviet Union in 1988, and believed that Fidel Castro was just a prince of a fellow who generously kept \u201chis\u201d people fed, housed, and schooled.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The roots of today\u2019s Democratic Party reach deep into the red soil of socialism and anchor the real and implied violence of extremism. The dense and twisted forest is nearly grown now, with more than three-fourths<\/a> of Democrats saying they would vote for a socialist presidential candidate, according to a Gallup poll taken earlier this year. Anyone wondering why many of our big cities are under siege from rioters can quickly figure out why just by looking at that poll.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Civil society and its institutions form the buffer zone between the individual and the State. As the Democrats lurch ever leftward, they hollow out ever more of the buffer zone with the goal of eliminating it entirely. The Obama-Biden administration\u2019s wildly radical Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule is a prime example<\/a>. Fortunately, President Trump put a stop to it.  But the Left never rests in its quest to quash liberty and empower an omni-invasive State apparatus.  It is undeniable that the Democrat Party is now a hard-Left party.  This is not the party of your father or even of your older brother.   If you are still a Democrat, I ask that you make sure you understand what this party now stands for.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Issues and Insights: While the Democrats\u2019 lurch to port looks like a recent event, it\u2019s been decades in the making. The party has been a comfortable home to closeted authoritarians for decades. Its big government agenda is a safe harbor for socialists, statists, coercionists, and sworn enemies of liberty. Democrats have a history of rejecting … Continue reading “Democrat Extremism Has Deep Roots”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}