Democrats:
The 'Post-Truth' Party, by Trevor
Thomas, 6/14/19, American Thinker.
In
September of 2008, U.S. senator, vice presidential candidate, and Democrat Joe
Biden was asked his thoughts "as a Roman Catholic" on when life
begins. Demonstrating a vast ignorance of science, along with an
unflattering display of faith, he told NBC's Tom Brokaw,
"Look, I know when it begins for me." A decade later,
using the same "post-truth" relativism, New York mayor,
presidential candidate, and Democrat Bill de Blasio, after signing a law that
allows New Yorkers to declare their chosen sex on their birth certificates,
told a cheering crowd, "You be you. Live your
truth. And know that New York City will have your back."
Likewise,
biology-denying Joe Biden, more than once, has recently called "transgender equality"
the "civil rights issue of our time." Recall that because
of his efforts and the efforts of other post-truthers in the Obama
administration, among other perverse, "creepy," and ignorant
things, boys started using girls' restrooms and locker rooms,
and military women were declared "at least as strong as
men" and officially marked for combat. Soon afterward, boys started and continue to take trophies from girls, and military physical standards were lowered.
Also
recall that Joe Biden beat his buddy Barack Obama to the punch when it
came time for Democrats legally to redefine the oldest institution in the history of
humanity. I
don't mean to pick mostly on "Uncle Joe," but since he is the current
frontrunner in the Democrats' race to see who can deny the most truth the
fastest and become the presidential nominee for the post-truth party I thought
it fitting to highlight his post-truth accomplishments. Biden is far from alone
in such thinking. Virtually every Democrat in America shares Biden's
post-truth views on life, marriage, sex, biology, the climate, and so on.
Thus,
no one should be surprised that Joe Biden has now flip-flopped on the Hyde
Amendment. In addition to subsidizing abortion through the federal
funding of Planned Parenthood, this new position by Biden would force further
taxpayer investment in the killing of unborn human beings. This is where
the Democratic Party now is in 2019, because moral capitulation is where
post-truth thinkingalways leads.
Post-truth
thinking is why Barack Obama flip-flopped on marriage. Post-truth
thinking is why Obama along with several other modern Democrats argued for infanticide.
Post-truth
thinking is why a quarter of a century ago (in Planned Parenthood v. Casey), Justice Anthony Kennedy declared,
"At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of
existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human
life." No one should've been surprised by Kennedy's
post-truth-informed vote on marriage.
Post-truth
thinking is why the perpetually pale-faced Elizabeth Warren for decades falsely
claimed she was of American Indian descent. Post-truth thinking is
also why she got away with it for decades. Most anyone grounded in
the truth would've seen through Fauxcahontas's fraud and would've called her on
it. This says much about the post-truth worldview that dominates the
academic and media institutions who've enabled Warren's career.
Post-truth
thinking is why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her ilk can claim that because of
the man-made climate change myth a result of the "greatest scandal in the history of
science," which
has led to "the greatest scientific fraud of all time" the Earth is soon doomed unless
we adopt a socialist green agenda. Post-truth thinking gave us the
Green New Deal, which, though Democrats presented it as realistic public
policy, as John Zmirak correctly notes, is nothing more than "a
delusional wish list, a ransom note pasted together with clipped out words from
storybooks and glued in place with bubblegum."
Post-truth
thinking is why Bernie Sanders can claim that his version of socialism will
work when all others have failed. Only in a post-truth world can the
failures of socialism play out right before our eyes, while the American Left claims,
"Venezuela didn't collapse because of socialism. It's a story
about epic mismanagement." In the 20th century alone, with no
exceptions, dozens of socialist nations "mismanaged" their way
into enslaving and murdering millions. Only a post-truth mindset
would fail to learn from such.
Only
academic campuses dominated by Democrats and corrupted by post-truth thinking
would censor speakers and opinions rooted in a conservative or biblical
worldview.
Truth-telling professors as well as truth-telling campus
guests are paying the price for contradicting the dominant post-truth worldview
present at virtually every college and university in the U.S. This
"college apocalypse," as Steven Hayward has called it, has turned educational institutions
into little more than day care centers.
It
was a post-truth mindset that fueled the vile attempt to derail the Supreme Court
nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. Aided and abetted by the like-minded
media, with a mountain of lies, Senate Democrats engaged in one of the worst
episodes in American political history. Only post-truthers clinging
to an evil post-truth agenda would take decades-old uncorroborated accusations
and treat them seriously in something as grave as a Supreme Court nomination.
Lastly,
only a political party corrupted by a post-truth worldview would attempt to
reverse a presidential election by inventing a Trump-Russia-collusion
conspiracy and then invent the crimes to attempt to justify their failed
coup. Only post-truthers would spend two-plus years and millions of
dollars investigating an incident they know did not occur — all in the name of
undoing an election result they didn't like. Only a post-truth media
would devote millions of words and thousands of TV hours to such a farce.
Today's
Democrats certainly don't hold a monopoly on post-truth politics and thought,
but clearly they are corrupted by it to a greater extent than almost any other
collection of individuals one could find. As noted apologist William
Lane Craig put it when writing about the Christian perspective on
homosexuality, "today so many people think of right and wrong, not as
matters of fact, but as matters of taste." In a post-truth world, taste determines
truth. If taste determines truth, then we're all at the mercy of
whoever's in charge. That's why today's Democrats as they are currently
constituted should not be in charge of anything.
Trevor Grant Thomas: At the Intersection of
Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason. www.trevorgrantthomas.com
Trevor is the author of the The Miracle and
Magnificence of America. tthomas@trevorgrantthomas.com
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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