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Perhaps one of the
greatest media myths of the election is that the nomination of Donald Trump by
the Republicans will destroy the party and assure the election of Hillary
Clinton.
There are a couple of
factors at work the media seems incapable of comprehending thus their erroneous
assumption regarding Trump and the GOP. First,
it is clear the liberal media is afflicted with early stage Alzheimer's as what
else could explain such folly.
Such an assumption is
clear evidence that liberals have no sense of history, either short term or
long term. A reporter with no sense of
history nor understanding of the past is pretty much useless in the resent.
Take the most basic
requirement of truth when it comes to the Republicans. The Blue Nation Review documented Abraham
Lincoln's vision of the Republican Party back in the inception, as Abe was the
first GOP president in our history elected in 1860.
Compare the principles the
Republican Party stood for during Lincoln's time to the current perception of
the party as an advocate of small government, an enemy of labor, a puppet of
Wall Street and special interests, the defender of capitalism, protector of the
one percent rich, and party of war.
Here is how Lincoln defined the party
he helped start.
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1. All people are created equal:
“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal.”
-Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
2. The low and middle class:
“Common looking
people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of
them.”
– Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln and the Civil
War In the Diaries and Letters of John Hay selected by Tyler Dennett (New York,
Da Capo Press, 1988), p. 143.
3. Without workers you have no
success:
“Labor is prior to,
and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could
never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of
capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
– Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln’s First Annual Message to Congress,
December 3, 1861.
4. Corporate greed will destroy America
if we’re not careful:
“I see in the near
future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the
safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of
corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will
endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people
until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic
is destroyed.”
– Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to
Col. William F. Elkins)
5. Government is to be used to
help those who need it:
“The legitimate object of
government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done,
but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves in their
separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do
as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. The desirable things
which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for
themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and
those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of
subdivisions. The first that in relation to wrongs embraces all crimes,
misdemeanors, and nonperformance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its
nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and
highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the
deceased, and the machinery of government itself. From this it appears that if
all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need for
government.”
– Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on government
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 2, pp
6. Upward economic and social
mobility:
“It is said an
Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever
in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations.
They presented him the words: “And this, too, shall pass away.” How much it
expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! — how consoling in the depths
of affliction! “And this, too, shall pass away.” And yet let us hope it is not
quite true. Let
us hope, rather, that by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath
and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure
an individual, social, and political prosperity and happiness, whose course
shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass
away.”
– Abraham Lincoln,
Address before the Wisconsin
State Agricultural
Society, September 30, 1859.
Originally
posted July 3, 2014 at 21:53
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Nowhere does Lincoln defend
capitalism, corporations, or all the other sins of the modern Republican Party
according to the media and Wall Street. Any sane and objective person can clearly see Lincoln was compassionate,
far more suspicious of corporations and international bankers than Democrats, a
rigid advocate of equal opportunity and individual freedom, and protector, not
of Wall Street, but of the people not being given the rights guaranteed in the
Declaration of Independence.
Political labels had no
meaning to Lincoln,
just doing what was right for the people. Today he is much closer to the center and left
than the right thanks to the media misconceptions of the Republican Party
principles.
It has taken nearly 80
years to destroy the Republican Party that Lincoln founded, since the days of Franklin
Roosevelt when he adopted the original Republican principles for his Democratic
Party.
The politicians and media
may have missed the erosion in the GOP but the people did not over the years. They watched as special interests, big banks,
the super rich, the international corporations and bankers, evolved their own
brand of conservatism, and hijacked the GOP to be their standard-bearer.
The super rich are patient
since they already control the wealth of the world and it was only a matter of
time before they leveraged their wealth, into owning the politicians. Make no mistake, the Party registration makes
no difference to big money, they own politicians whether Democrats or
Republicans.
As they tightened their
stranglehold on the American political process and President Clinton passed a
flurry of laws to accelerate the corruption of capitalism, the people noticed.
The people Lincoln so
trusted knew the establishment was corrupting America and the institutions were
the agents of corruption. Many citizens
gave up on both parties and registered as Independents and many, many more gave
up on the entire political process and refused to be a party to the destruction
of America.
How often do members of the media talk about how there are now more registered
Independents than either Democrats or Republicans? It is the first time in our nation's history
and they neglect the truth.
As for the much larger
truth, how many times do you hear the media talk about how nearly fifty percent
of ALL eligible voters refuse to be part of an election process because they
consider it hopelessly corrupted?
No, my friends, Donald Trump
will not destroy the Republican Party and Bernie Sanders will not destroy the
Democratic Party because the fat cats, politicians, media, and special
interests have already completed the mission.
Trump and Sanders knew the
people felt this way and they knew the revolution has already begun. They may be messengers, but the will of the
people is the soul of the movement. It
is time the media wake up. It is too
late for the establishment.
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