By José Alberto Niño
Would JFK have a place in today’s Democratic Party? While not a conservative by today’s definition, he wouldn’t be either in today’s Democratic party. A party of individuals espousing communist rhetoric, slaughtering the unborn, and finding new ways each and every day to strip the citizenry of our constitutional rights.
Simply put, the Democratic Party and the political Left as a whole have changed so much in the past six decades that they are unrecognizable from one another.
Even Democrats a few decades ago look starkly different than the ones seeking Black Lives Matter endorsements today. Just look at the Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, as an example of how far the Overton Window has been dragged.
During Sanders’ face off against Republican incumbent Peter Smith for Vermont’s at-large congressional district way back in 1990, the NRA (the same organization Sanders and other Left wingers describe as a threat to our society) endorsed Sanders.
Shocked?
The the official endorsement statement, NRA executive Wayne LaPierre stated “Bernie Sanders is a more honorable choice for Vermont sportsmen than Peter Smith.” Let it sink in folks, without the NRA, Bernie Sanders would have probably never step foot in Washington D.C.
Look where we are now though. Sanders’ beliefs have changed to adjust to the realities of the modern-day Democratic Party, which doesn’t even pretend to hide behind bumper sticker rhetoric such as “gun safety” or “just ban the assault weapons”, these people want to strike the Second Amendment from the Constitution and make it so no man or woman can legally possess any type of firearm.
Although Sanders has signaled his support for gun grabbing schemes such as “assault weapon” bans, former presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg (the man whose face you saw all over YouTube ads in 2019 probably) insisted that Sanders is “beholden to the gun lobby” due to Sanders’ votes against the Brady Act in 1993 and his vote for the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act in 2005.
How far we have come, how far indeed.
This didn’t used to be an argument. Whether someone had a right wing or left wing stance, the proper access to firearms among the common man did not used to be such a contentious stance. Four-time socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs once remarked how gun ownership was the way to prevent the working man from being complete slaves to greedy capitalists. Even socialist George Orwell had been noted by Christopher Hitchens to have been a supporter of the right to bear arms.
Today the mask is off, the intentions are clear, and the rhetoric is more direct than ever before. There are no Second Amendment supporters in today’s Democratic Party.
That stance is as dead as JFK.
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