By Alan
Caruba
There is
something very disquieting occurring in American politics today. Most
dramatically, the Democratic Party is offering a candidate who is a moral
cesspool filled with lies and a history of behavior that would render anyone
unthinkable for the highest office in the land. Something is very wrong when
Hillary Clinton is, at this point, the only candidate for President the
Democrats will be able to vote for and, worse, an estimated 47% of them will
vote for her.
What we
are witnessing is a Democratic Party that has been debauched by decades of
socialism, an economic and political system that has failed everywhere it was
implemented.
By
contrast, what is being largely overlooked is the wealth of political
talent—Rubio, Walker, Paul, et al---that the Republican Party has to offer as an
alternative. Instead of obsessing over the different aspects of its candidates,
we should be celebrating the fact that voters will be able to choose someone of
real merit for whom to vote.
While the
brain-dead media talks about the Republican candidates, seizing on every small
element of the policies they are individually offering for consideration, the
contrast with Hillary Clinton widens into a gap as large as the Grand Canyon.
Her campaign thus far has been an exhibition of media manipulation. She talks
of “income inequality” as if it has not existed from the dawn of time and is
based on the socialist utopia of everyone being equally poverty-stricken. Who
wants to live in a nation where you cannot become wealthy if you’re willing to
take the risks and work hard to achieve it?
It is this
gap between those concerned with the very real threats to our nation’s security
and welfare that lies at the heart of the months ahead in the long political campaigns.
We can, at the very least, give thanks that President Obama cannot run again.
We must, however anticipate that he will do everything in his power to initiate
or expand policies that do not bode well for the nation.
Why anyone
would vote for a party that foisted ObamaCare on us, driving up the costs of
healthcare though numerous taxes and impacting the healthcare industry in ways
that have already caused many physicians to seek retirement or be forced to
process their patients as rapidly as possible to pay their bills? The fact that
the Republican candidate Sen. Ted Cruz is calling for the repeal of ObamaCare
is reason enough to give him serious consideration.
Similarly,
conservatives resist amnesty programs that would load the voting rolls with those
who entered illegally and now, because they’ve been here for several years, we
are supposed to consider them comparable to those who did so legally.
Republican candidates who resist this understand that a nation with no real citizenship
standards and borders that do not close off easy access rapidly ceases to be a
nation. At the same time, these illegals are competing for jobs with those who
are legal by birth and naturalization.
It’s a
wonder to me that this nation is $18 trillion in debt, has over ninety million
unemployed, and the nation continues to “redistribute” money from those who are
working to those who are not. These programs are a huge magnet for the
illegals, but it is the states that must struggle to fund their educational
systems and Medicaid. Meanwhile our infrastructure goes old and in need of
repair.
Beyond our
shores, thanks to the foreign policies of the President, the United States is
no longer the leader of the free world. As the Middle East slips into anarchy Obama
wants nothing more than to give Iran the right to have its own nuclear weapons
with which to pursue its hegemony of the region. Lift sanctions? Why would we
want Iran to have more money to fund the terrorism that it uses to expand its
influence? Closer to home, White House efforts to accept Cuba ignores
its dictatorship, its record of providing weapons to our enemies, and years of hostility.
This
represents a deliberate effort to undermine and weaken the moral principles on
which our nation has been founded and risen to leadership in the past. Who is
more widely criticized in our society than the evangelicals who have high moral
standards and the Tea Party movement that is seeking to slow the obscene growth
of the federal government?
We need to
worry about a nation where marijuana is legalized and thus able to affects the
mental capabilities of those who have used it since its heyday in the 1960s?
Where is the need to reexamine the moral issues involved in the murder of
babies in the womb? From 1973 through 2011, there were nearly 53 million legal
abortions nationwide. In 2011, approximately 1.06 million abortions took place.
In March I
noted that “More than a quarter of births to women of childbearing age—defined
here as 15 to 44 years old—in the past five years were cohabiting couples, the
highest on record and nearly double the rate from a decade earlier, according
to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2011 to
2013.”
“And
here’s a statistic that really caught my attention: “Cohabiting parents now
account for a clear majority—59%--of all births outside marriage, according to
estimates by Sally Curtin, a CDC demographer. In all, 40% of the 3.93 million
births in 2013 were to unmarried women.” Moreover, “It is mostly white and
Hispanic couples who are driving the trend, not black couples, experts say.”
This
speaks to the breakdown of the institution that is most essential for a
healthy, successful society, the dissolution or downgrading of marriage and the
births that occur outside of it.
American
politics—always a national debate on where we are and where we’re going, is
critical to the future. Right now America is at risk of becoming a place where
our founding morals, values, and traditions are being cast aside.
Your vote
was never more important.
© Alan
Caruba, 2015
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