“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” 

 ― Winston Churchill

 The problem

The Democratic Party has surrendered all connection to America’s political heritage. The latter’s framework – characterized by liberty, opportunity and responsibility linked to the same harness – is in direct opposition to everything the donkey now stands for. 

Worse, a large percentage of that party’s base is clueless that an epic transfer of values been pushed through on their watch. That transformation is undebatable.

At no point in our history would traditional Democrats have supported Presidential candidates such as closeted socialist Hillary Clinton or celebrated socialist Bernie Sanders. This remarkable turn of events is not an accident.

Who?

 Progressive-liberal-socialists, self-declared as the ‘new and improved’ Democratic Party, represent the most powerful, creative, and successful political movement in 21st century America. 

Over the last two decades their policy and control achievements have eclipsed Marx’s wildest dreams.  

Need proof? Allow me to exhaust you.

Destruction of the family

 If you want to kidnap a culture, one the best places to start is by killing the family. Today’s PLS-D movement has been remarkably fruitful.

 Pick any empirical study on raising children and the conclusion will be the same; traditional mother-father family units beat all other models by a landslide. That’s not to say others can’t be made to work – but they work like a size 13 shoe works on a size 10 foot.

 The PLS-D’s means to their misguided ends are numerous – not the least of which is making convenience a priority over conscience.

To date in America we’ve chosen to intercept 55 million new lives rather than embrace the accountabilities of family. Any guesses as to the impact of taking that many souls – a number equal to Hitler’s tally for World War II – off our country’s game board?

 In making it easy to stop doing what only a woman can do we’ve robbed the fairer gender of the core of their most sincere identity. What’s that? Not much – just civilizing the world.

 In today’s goofy PLS-D cultural model we’re telling women that they should not only be able to do what men do, but that they should be like men. Women as aggressive, over-sexed, and pleasure seeking narcissists is not a good thing. One gender prone to those qualities is enough.

 Social welfare subsistence policies ensnaring single parent families are another reprehensible example of the false benevolence of the PLS-D’s big government gusto. This practice is the moral equivalent of adopting a puppy and chaining it to a dog house.

 My favorite sleight of hand is same-sex marriage. Talk all you want about love, fairness, and equality, but nature’s message is clear – marriage is about a man and a woman. This bonding of equal opposites lays the foundation for birthing and raising children in the preeminent version of a safe, consistent, and nurturing incubator. Same sex pee-pees can’t do that and nature could care less about tax deductions.

Murdering our character

Left-minded culture vultures love to point out the inconsistencies of our Judeo-Christian heritage. They do it for a toxic reason – because they want to be the opiate of the masses.

In case you didn’t know it, our culture’s traditional values have set the world’s stage. That’s why the international language is English versus Farsi, Zulu, Mandarin, Hindi, Nahuatl, or Cherokee.   The global models for education, governance, law, housing, commerce, medicine, art and about everything else you can think of come from the enlightenments of a European culture grounded in Christian values. The impact of Islam, Africa, China, India and the early America’s have provided more seasoning than meat and potatoes.

The PLS-D movement – Obama personifies their membership – take special delight in highlighting failures in Christian behavior. News flash guys – show us something touched by the hand of man that doesn’t get turned sideways. That’s the point of Christianity – by looking up instead of down, the corruptions of man are constrained while the blessings of God are released. Perfection doesn’t exist on this planet. Over the course of history no social-spiritual values system in existence has uplifted more people than Christianity.

Diversion

The PLS-D loves distraction as a means to social change.

 Sex is one of their favorites. I defy you to watch two hours of television without seeing at least one reference to performance enhancement products or the ecstasies of carnal pleasure, infidelity, gender swapping, seduction or casual sex. The message is constant – feeling good is what it’s all about and sex is the fastest track to feeling good.

 Drugs run a close second. The PLS-D is pushing legalization because addiction makes people stupid and the left is about nothing if not stupidity. Check out Willy Nelson for confirmation on both counts.

 Getting high is about escaping reality. Man’s efforts toward learning, growing, enriching, building, producing, protecting, and uplifting get lost in the mission of feeling good over doing good. What else did you think ‘escaping’ was about?

Disguise 

The PLS-D movement loves to wear a mask. Case in point – man made global warming.

 Contrary to what you read and hear, the science behind this phenomenon is sketchy at best – corrupt at worst.  Global weather cycles are a fact of nature and if we’re not very, very careful, we are going to impair our capacity to stay warm, mobile and employed per the absurdisms of what really is a political movement.

 The mission is to turn their enemy – free enterprise – on its ear. That can be done by focusing the world’s attention on something we can all agree – taking care of our environment – versus something many of us hate – centralized government and the homogenizing impacts of socialism.

 The PLS-D has found a back door to making the world a socialist paradise by marketing environment but producing political change. Don’t buy it? Take a quick look at the website advocacy positions of the Sierra Club, the UN, and most manmade global warming groups. These folks are eco-socialists pretending to be virtuous baby seal protectors.

Have fun 

The PLS-D is a big advocate for comfort and the fun of a downhill run. Responsibility, accountability, growth, values, choice, and integrity matter little to pleasure seekers. Those pursuits take work and people who climb are more creative, capable, and independent – and thus threatening – than those dedicated to easy.

 Witness today’s growing heroin problem. It is no coincidence that this returning scourge is finding its strongest initial attachments up north and on the west coast – havens of liberalism and the PLS-D.

 Watch the TV commentators lamenting the ineffectiveness of medical interventions, limited treatment resources, and the murder and mayhem developing out of heroin addiction. Nowhere will you hear a word about individual choice and responsibility – all the participants are portrayed as innocent waifs.

A study in chaos  

The PLS-D is an assemblage of confusion. On one hand they’re enthusiastic about killing the unborn and ignoring black teens incarcerated amidst the carnage of a growing drug culture and government housing stockades. On the other they whoop and wail over gun ownership by law-abiding citizens seeking the means to self-protection. The left persistently pounds on the fantasy of 21st century white privilege while paradoxically applauding black racism in forms like the NAACP, BET, and Congressional Black Caucus – and then champions the segregation of American Indians within a broken reservation system.

 I don’t even want to start on education. All you need to know is found in a brief statistical review of the percentage of educators in public schools and universities identifying themselves as conservative. Add PLS-D controlled teacher unions to the mix and the formula is complete – the minds of our children rest snuggly in the hands of political demigods. Watch the anti-everything rally at MIZZOU for a front-row view of students and educators confused by very apparent PLS-D programming.

Chaos theory suggests the present predicts the future. That doesn’t mean that future can be predicted accurately. In the case of the PLS-D, the best window into the future is the past. Everything they’re doing has been tried – and never worked.

Solutions 

If you’re a Democrat, remember that this mess is happening on your watch. If you’re a Republican – or principle driven independent – you have a part to play in slowing the slide.

 Culturists should not be pleased with the mounting successes of the PLS-D…                                       

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Carl Mumpower is a former vice mayor and former member of Asheville City Council.