Someone ought to write about the Democrats’ reliance on foreign opinion (me?). George Neumayr does a good job in “The Treason Temptation.” What’s alarming about this is that Americans aren’t alarmed about this.
Democrats bristle at the suggestion that they are out of touch with mainstream America. But their rhetorical reliance on opinion from outside the country — whether it is John Kerry citing support from foreign leaders or Democratic activists citing Scandinavian jurisprudence as they try to topple marriage — proves it. The more they alienate themselves from mainstream America, the more they rely on foreign cultural currents to push their agenda.
Modern Democrats are peculiar in American political history in that they actually brag about non-American support. This is a political boast the Founding Fathers and early Federalists would find puzzling if not shocking. Independence from foreign opinion and influence is one of the founding marks of America. The Federalist Papers contain chapters entitled “Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence.” John Kerry’s foreign-leaders-are-pulling-for-me talk would sound to the American founders like the beginnings of treason.
Most Americans seem unaware that when U.S. Supreme Court justices cite precedents from other countries in their rulings (which the Court did in the Texas sodomy case), that’s a bad thing.
The sovereignty and uniqueness of the United States is worth preserving, but liberals have duped their constituents and created diversions. Liberals’ pure hatred of George W. Bush is their reason for being. With no compelling arguments to offer about why they should be in the White House, they merely react to Bush’s policies.
Liberals use scare tactics to get votes rather than offering a positive, uplifting agenda. It’s all about the anti-choice, bigoted, intolerant, war-mongering, stealing-your-social-security, Big Oil Bush. That’s it. That’s their agenda.
Am I wrong? Tell me something positive and decent Democrats stand for. I’ll take just one example.
