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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