9 INSANE Things In The New Democratic Party
Platform
The Democratic
National Committee has released excerpts from
its new platform – and it’s even more insanely extreme than the old
platform. More so, as we’ll see. Here are the top nine lowlights from the party
of Bernie Sanders:
1. Prosecute People Who Disagree
With The Theory of Anthropogenic Climate Change. According to the platform, it’s not enough to back climate
change legislation – those who donate to groups like the Heartland Institute
that make the case that fossil fuels are not the chief contributors to climate
change must be actively prosecuted:
Another
joint proposal calling on the Department of Justice to investigate alleged
corporate fraud on the part of fossil fuel companies who have reportedly misled
shareholders and the public on the scientific reality of climate change was
also adopted by unanimous consent.
2. Embrace Of $15 Minimum Wage. The left’s obsession with the number “15” comes to a head
in this latest proposal. They can’t explain just why $15 per hour should be the
minimum wage – why should Kansas companies pay the same minimum wage as Seattle
ones? – but they’re all for it, no matter how many jobs they kill:
Acknowledging
that the current minimum wage is a starvation wage, the platform draft already
included language declaring that Americans should earn at least $15 an hour,
that the minimum wage should be raised and indexed, and that all workers have
the right to form and join a union. It also includes a call to end
sub-minimum wage for tipped workers and people with disabilities.
Note the addition here about tipped
workers – they want to eliminate tips for waiters and waitresses, many of whom
formally work for less than minimum wage but earn far more with tips.
3. Abolishing The Death Penalty. This is the first time the Democrats have ever explicitly
called for abolishing the death penalty, although they’ve been moving toward
this morally nonsensical position for quite a while. They’re all for the death
penalty for unborn babies, however…
4. Abortion For Everybody On Earth,
And You Pay. According to the platform:
The
platform also vows to oppose, and seek to overturn, all federal and state laws
that impede a woman’s access to abortion, including by repealing the Hyde
Amendment. It also strongly supports the repeal of harmful restrictions
that obstruct women’s access to healthcare around the world, including the
Global Gag Rule and the Helms Amendment, which bars US assistance to other
countries that provide safe, legal, abortion.
The Hyde Amendment bars federal
taxpayer funding for abortion. So you get to pay for everybody else’s abortion.
They want all restrictions on
abortion overturned, including partial birth abortion. They want American
taxpayers to foot the bill for abortion overseas.
5. Protectionism Is Back! Thanks to Bernie Sanders, the Democrats now embrace trade
protectionism to “protect worker’s rights” against the scourge of “corporate
profits.” That will only cost a few million jobs.
6. Increase Entitlement Programs To
Bankrupt The Country. 2011 marked the first year on
record where Social Security took in less money than it paid out, but the
Democrats aim to make that permanent:
The
Democratic Platform makes clear that not only will Democrats fight every effort
to cut, privatize, or weaken Social Security, but we will in fact expand it
while requiring those at the top to pay more. And pursuant to an amendment
crafted by members McKibben and Tanden, the Committee added language that said
we would we would achieve this goal by taxing some of the income of people
above $250,000. Taxes at this level simply won’t
cover this burden. The math doesn’t add up.
7. Amnesty For Virtually All. The new Democratic platform adds
several provisions designed to keep illegal immigrants in America at all costs:
“keeping families together, ending family detention, closing private detention
centers, and guaranteeing legal counsel for all unaccompanied minors in
immigration proceedings.” In other words, release everybody into the wind --
the vast majority of detainees are in private detention centers --
and force ICE to find attorneys for everyone who they want to deport. This
means everybody gets to stay, folks.
8. Nationalized Healthcare. Remember when the left said it was
racist to accuse the Obama administration of aiming for government-run
healthcare? Now they’re calling for it openly: they want “access to public
coverage through Medicare or a public option.” This is called nationalized
health care, given that subsidized medical programs will always be cheaper than
private programs and will never go bankrupt, since they can actively confiscate
wealth from citizens to pay for their deficits.
9. Increasing Crime. The left’s surrender to Black Lives
Matter is complete:
The current draft calls for
ending the era of mass incarceration, shutting down private prisons, ending
racial profiling, reforming the grand jury process, investing in re-entry
programs, banning the box to help give people a second chance and prioritizing
treatment over incarceration for individuals suffering addiction. The
Committee also voted unanimously to recognize the role activists and recent
movements have played in putting these issues front and center in the national
conversation, as they should be.
There is no era of “mass incarceration.” There are
criminals who have committed crimes going to prison. Grand juries aren’t the
problem in America – criminals are. Racial profiling has been illegal across
the country for years, but behavioral profiling certainly is not. And forcing
private businesses not to ask about prior crimes is ridiculous.
The DNC has moved further to the left. Of course. And they
won't stop that gradual slide into madness any time soon. After all, with the
help of a compliant media, they're winning
http://www.dailywire.com/news/6965/9-insane-things-new-democratic-party-platform-ben-shapiro
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