Showing posts with label equality. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 18, 2018

The 1,000-pound gorilla threatening to send the Democrat Party into "Oblivion’’ - Patriotism



Part 2 of 4 – Patriotism

Throughout our 242-year history Americans have consistently been one of the most patriotic nations on Earth.  Regardless of which political party controlled the Congress or the Presidency, or tried to influence the Supreme Court, the people have always supported the nation and our Constitution.


Examples of this undying patriotism must include never wavering in the face of such challenges as the War of Independence, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Great Depression, the assassination of Presidents, the 1968 Democratic Party National Convention riots, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Schizophrenia Sixties.

The sixties, probably the most destructive, divided, depressing, disgusting, and drug-driven decade in the history of the world.  For those of you who missed the lessons of the sixties, you must thank God you did.  For those who were there but seemed to have lost the years in a fog, it is a good thing to have memory loss of the sixties.


Patriotism was the fabric that carried us through those monumental challenges.  It is the core of our existence and the spirit that propelled us, as a people, to be the sole beacon of hope in a world of fear and uncertainty.  It brought us to where we are today, the only Super Power left standing.

As stated by our forefathers:


Declaration of Independence

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”

“We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions”

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”


Pledge of Allegiance

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

As our forefathers clearly established, truths were self-evident, all were equal, all are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  And we acknowledge a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence.


The Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights are the perpetual gifts of our forefathers born of divine inspiration when the colonists were prepared to go to war against the world super power, the British Empire.  The colonist’s commitment, to pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

In terms of the Democratic party there has been a shift over the past few decades as policy moved from the party that conquered religious liberty with the election of JFK in 1960, to the party today that has worked for years to discredit the founding references to God, the Creator, or Divine Providence, whichever God you so choose.


It began with the party leadership position to attack the credibility of God through the separation of Church and State argument.  First the Nativity Scenes were banned from public property, then the Ten Commandments removed from courtrooms and legislative chambers in court houses and all public buildings, while praying, religious photos or artwork, and the Cross were banned from public schools.


At times it seemed as if the Democratic party had morphed from “Moderate” under John Kennedy to liberal, then progressive, and finally the socialist party of today.


I wonder about a political system like socialism.  Whenever it wins over a nation, and has established the mindset that everyone is equal and everything belongs to all of us, then turns over control to an elite group of leaders who immediately exempt themselves from all laws, where are they going?


Then the socialists tear up the old constitution, take all the money, land and wealth from the rich and redistribute it to everyone.  Next the businesses owned by the former wealthy are nationalized by the state driving away the aristocrats who knew how to run a business and replacing them with the proletariat who had no clue.


By now critics of the government are silenced or killed off to prevent any erosion of control.  Remember that liberal news media as you continue in your blatant efforts to undermine the Constitutional Republic and replace it with socialism.  Do whatever it takes to provide cradle to grave goodies to the people.


Where does that leave us?

We just squandered all the wealth, confiscated then corrupted before destroying all businesses, and promised the people all sorts of very expensive goodies, i.e., jobs, wages, housing, food, safety, health care and layers upon layers of bureaucratic rules and regulations to make sure no one could ever take away all those goodies from you.


They forgot to mention their House of Cards lacked foundation so when it started to fail, they let it go bankrupt and poof, the well runs dry.  The people, left with nothing, begin to awaken to the lies, illusions, and deceptions they once embraced.  But no one and nothing is left to save them.


Attacks on God are attacks on patriotism.

So is kneeling down during the national anthem in protest while insulting the sacred nature of the Flag, an action embraced by the Democrats of today.


Our forefathers clearly recognized only one kingdom we were beholden to, the Kingdom of God.  We are the human side of God’s Kingdom, his creation on Earth.  But God is not a religion, it is a divine presence that oversees all of creation.  The Creator belongs to no one group of humans but all humans, no religion or race but all religions and races.


The Democrats seem to be at war with God and the teachings of His or Her Son, in spite of the distinction that we pledge to live under divine law and influence.  To ignore it is to also lose all honor.


Is it so easy to cast aside founding principles like being endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?  And we acknowledge a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence.
Add to the unpatriotic image of the Democrats, efforts to replace constitutional law with rules and regulations, or replace them with “administrative law” rulings from the Supreme Court.

Attacks on the Supreme Court, challenges to the laws of the Constitution including illegal immigration, universal health care, gun control, expansion of abortions even impeachment of the president for no viable cause, all put the Democrats at odds with the Constitution.


There is the rioting, protests, flag burning, screaming in congress, accosting people in public places, violating people's privacy, and an endless stream of fake news, distortions and downright nasty activities.


On most social issues the people are pretty evenly split, nearly 50-50.  Advocating one position over the other loses 50% support immediately.  People who label themselves “progressive” total just 8% of the electorate, yet the vast majority of Democratic party positions are far left progressive.


Even the liberal or moderate Democrats are caught at cross purposes from the party leadership.  Add to them the Independents who already left the two political parties because they were disgusted with platforms and tactics, and you have a foundation, well you have a House of Cards waiting for the first wind to come along and destroy it.


It seems as if the Democratic party made a conscious decision to embrace radical ideas over common sense, resistance over negotiation and compromise, attacks over hope and character assassination over helping all Americans.  Patriotism is not relevant to the party of today, but might not be forgotten by those the DNC are trying to brainwash.       

Saturday, October 13, 2018

The 1,000-pound gorilla threatening to send the Democrat Party into "Oblivion’’ - Party Loyalty



Part 1 of 4 – Party Loyalty

A gorilla, even a mighty one, still has four legs to stand on so what are the four legs of the Democrat party?  Well in this late stage of evolution with the party approaching life support the legs are Abortion, the African American dependency, the Hispanic delusion, and Middle American alienation.


In each of these important areas the principles interwoven into the Democrat Party fabric regarding the subjects is archaic, radical, grossly misguided, and highly reactionary.  First, the party has fallen victim to the classic position that people are, by and large, stupid when it comes to politics.  As a result, certain assumptions are made by the party.

So, the assumptions are already off the tracks in three distinct areas, and off the cliff in a fourth area.


  1. Party loyalty
  2. Patriotism
  3. Persecuted
  4. Persuadable

Party Loyalty

Party leaders seem to have the notion that members of the Democrat party have no mind of their own, no thirst for truth, and no ability to act independently.  Good Democrats must put aside their own notions and act in the best interest of the party, as articulated by said leadership.


When the party adopts a position, people are required to blindly follow the path prescribed no matter what the impact may be on the individuals.  Woe is the Democrat who violates such a decree.  Now there might have been a time when political leaders held such a position or power, but the level of insight demonstrated recently suggests that time has long passed.


Such an attitude leads one to believe the people are not capable of thinking for themselves nor looking out for their own interests, they need the party.  If that were truly the case, then why was it the Republican party under Abraham Lincoln destroyed slavery and not the Democrats at the time?


Yet today, the Democratic party assumes if you are African American or Hispanic, you are a Democrat, therefore you must think and act like a Democrat.  The party platform embraces a sense you are being denied everything you deserve, you are the perpetual victim, you are the victim of White supremacy, and you must hate the opposition out to destroy you.


Where I come from out in the American heartland, we have a saying for such arrogance and deception, Hogwash!

America is the land of liberty, freedom, and equal opportunity for all.  There is nothing in the Constitution that says any race, gender, wealth, or political party member is treated any different, we all share the same rights.


We honor individual rights, we respect an individual’s race, religion, and everything else as long as the same respect is given in return.  We cherish the promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as delineated in our Constitution, and for 242 years we have defended those rights for all to the point of sacrificing lives so that others may enjoy freedom and equality.

Such freedom does not allow you to be stereotyped, to be taken for granted, to forfeit your right to think, and to vote for whomever you are told.  No one and no party can impose such anti-Constitutional restraints on any other people.  There is no room in America for machine-made, pattern-stamped, assembly-line minds.


We are all individual creations of the same God, sons and daughters all, and so our forefathers wisely directed our nation to honor God and all the Divine teachings of God.  “One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all!”

It is ridiculous for the Democratic leaders to think all people within a demographic group think, act, or are the same.   It is an insult to all Americans.  There are liberal, middle of the road, and conservative Black, female, or Latino Americans in the Democratic and Republican parties, just as there are within the White community.  That is what freedom gives us.


Ironically, the political parties, both Democrats and Republicans, are not even mentioned in our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights.  Neither are the rich, Wall Streeters, or any other class or classification of citizens.  We are all equal.

In spite of the tremendous odds during our formation and evolutionary period to get to this point, all races, in fact all legal immigrants, are protected by our laws.  Bias is not easy to overcome.  It was not the colonists that settled America who brought slaves to America, it was the Dutch, French and English who were fighting over which country could claim ownership of the new territory.


Americans realized the imperfections of the European countries and in 1776 declared independence and set in motion a mechanism to fix the problems.  Some were incredibly embedded in our way of life and it took a Civil War to bring justice in abolishing slavery.

It would be fifty-five more years (1920) before women were given the right to vote.  Still there was a lingering bias so more than forty years later (1964) the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts were approved again reinforcing the intent of the original founding fathers.

As for females, the largest female voting block in history was Barack Obama’s 2012 election when he got 56% of the women’s vote.  In 2016, with women’s groups dominating the political landscape and Hillary Clinton the favored and first woman on the ballot, she fell behind Obama’s total.  Here is what The New York Times said about the gender split in 2016.


Fifty-four percent of Mrs. Clinton’s voters were women, and 42 percent of Mr. Trump’s, an overall change of only one percentage point in Mrs. Clinton’s favor compared with 2012. Forty-one percent of her voters and 53 percent of Mr. Trump’s were men, an overall change of five percentage points in his favor.


Seriously, when a female candidate only gets 54% of all women voting, especially when she was running against Trump, that is hardly an overwhelming endorsement of the women’s movement behind Hillary, or the concept of all women voting as a block.


Since the 2016 election the many Democrats in Hollywood and the news media getting accused of sexual improprieties and worse has resulted in the MeToo movement, but it remains to be seen if they can avoid being identified as a liberal fringe group   Their political endorsements and actions in protests will confirm their true intent.

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

America - A Nation of Immigrants - The Real Story



Part 1. - Who are we?

I feel comfortable writing about America a nation of immigrants because I have spent over 50 years trying to help the indigenous Native Americans like the Hopi nation, who are the only people in our country who are not immigrants.

With the politics in Washington off the cliff, and the truth harder to find every day in the news media, I figured I could be a sort of voice in the wilderness explaining what most Americans think about immigrants.


I wrote this article for the benefit of those outside of America forced to turn to the news media for truth about the the USA  and immigration reform.  Here is  little history often overlooked.

Back when our Forefathers fought a war of independence against the most powerful empire in the world, the British, we were already debating the shape of things to come, in order to assure our freedom, and protect us from the threat of becoming an empire and exercising such control over a free people.


There are a few things I believe were of significant influence on the Founding Fathers, more than we like to acknowledge.  First, I accept that Divine Providence guided them in their deliberations and debate.  Second, the colonists of that time were far more educated than most people believe.  Third, they employed either oracles or psychics to see far into the future.

I believe the record since our Declaration of Independence 240 years ago is testament to the truth in what I say.  It would have taken the Hand of God to guide a bunch of farmers, aristocrats, religious fanatics, and outcasts from throughout the world with minimal money and certainly no army, to victory over the greatest empire in world history.


As for education, many Americans were self-taught while those with resources made extensive use of tutors.  Innovation, initiative, and creativity were necessary characteristics of those attempting to tame a wild land and create a civilization in a foreign world.

Now oracles, mediums, and psychics must have been available to help draft the framework of a Constitution that protected and preserved the United States through all the radical changes in world culture, religion, economy, war, and technology that would come in the not too distant future generations.


Beyond the foresight, the founding documents also had to correct the flaws in the system that existed at the time, such as slavery, in order to guarantee freedom and equality to everyone.  The goal of the Constitution was to provide a pathway to achieve the lofty promises contained in the document whether they existed at the time or not.

Three key items immediately come to mind in terms of lofty promises.  Of course, there was slavery, women's rights, and there was religious freedom.  At the time, slavery was legal, women had no rights, and religious freedom was non-existent though there were attempts to institute it in places like Maryland with little success.


The Constitution also had to make it clear that America would always be a nation of immigrants like no other nation in the world.  Just think of the incredible growth that took place in America.  In 1776, there were about 10 million people.  Only forty years later, in 1816, there were 41 million people, four times as many.  During the next millennial, by 1916, we grew to 102 million and one millennial later we have reached 325 million people, from 10 million to 325 million in just 240 years.

Today we have three million indigenous peoples, plus two million more indigenous of mixed race, so five million indigenous residents.  That means 98.5% of the population in America are immigrants or ancestors of immigrants.


The roots of Americans are vast.  Here is the diversity of Americans as of 2010 represented by the ancestral ethnic mix as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau.


American Ethnic Mix 2010
1.      49,206,934 Germans 
2.      41,284,752 Black or African Americans
3.      35,523,082 Irish
4.      31,789,483 Mexican 
5.      26,923,091 English 
6.      19,911,467 Americans
7.      17,558,598 Italian
8.      9,739,653 Polish
9.      9,136,092 French (except Basque)
10.  5,706,263 Scottish
11.  5,102,858 Scotch-Irish
12.  4,920,336 American Indian or Alaska Native
13.  4,810,511 Dutch
14.  4,607,774 Puerto Rican
15.  4,557,539 Norwegian
16.  4,211,644 Swedish
17.  3,245,080 Chinese (except Taiwanese) 
18.  3,060,143 Russian
19.  2,781,904 Asian Indian
20.  2,625,306 West Indian (except Hispanic groups)
21.  2,549,545 Filipino
22.  2,087,970 French Canadian
23.  1,888,383 Welsh
24.  1,764,374 Cuban
25.  1,733,778 Salvadoran
26.  1,620,637 Arab
27.  1,576,032 Vietnamese
28.  1,573,608 Czech
29.  1,511,926 Hungarian
30.  1,423,139 Portuguese
31.  1,422,567 Korean
32.  1,420,962 Danish
33.  1,414,551 Dominican (Dominican Republic)
34.  1,319,188 Greek


This is the percentage distribution of the top fifteen.

49,206,934
17.1%
45,284,752
14.6%
35,523,082
11.6%
31,789,483
10.9%
26,923,091
9.0%
19,911,467
6.7%
17,558,598
5.9%
9,739,653
3.0%
9,136,092
2.9%
5,706,263
1.9%
5,102,858
1.7%
4,920,336
1.6%
4,810,511
1.6%
4,607,774
1.5%
4,557,539
1.5%

  
Here is the diversity of Americans represented by their religious denomination beliefs.

Denomination name
Members
(thousands)
  1. The Roman Catholic Church
68,202
  1. Southern Baptist Convention
16,136
  1. United Methodist Church, The
7,679
  1. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The
6,157
  1. Church of God in Christ, The
5,499
  1. National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc
5,197
  1. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
4,274
  1. National Baptist Convention of America, Inc
3,500
  1. Assemblies of God
3,030
  1. Presbyterian Church (USA)
2,675
  1. African Methodist Episcopal Church
2,500
  1. National Missionary Baptist Convention of America
2,500
  1. Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod (LCMS),
2,278
  1. Episcopal Church
1,951
  1. Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Inc Churches of Christ 
1,800
  1. Churches of Christ
1,639
  1. Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
1,500
  1. African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
1,400
  1. American Baptist Churches in the USA
1,308
  1. Jehovah's Witnesses Baptist Bible Fellowship International
1,184
  1. Church of God
1,074
  1. Christian Churches and Churches of Christ
1,071
  1. Seventh-day Adventist Church
1,060
  1. United Church of Christ
1,058
  1. The Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc
1,010

NOTE: Includes the self-reported membership of religious bodies with 650,000 or more as reported to the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. Groups may be excluded if they do not supply information. The data are not standardized so comparisons between groups are difficult. The definition of "church member" is determined by the religious body.
Source: 2012 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, National Council of Churches.


This is a more detailed breakdown of the same religious information.



Religions

Explore religious groups in the U.S. by tradition, family and denomination

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  • Non-Christian Faiths 5.9%
  • Jewish 1.9%
  • Muslim 0.9%
  • Buddhist 0.7%
  • Hindu 0.7%
  • Other World Religions 0.3%
  • Other Faiths 1.5%

Finally, here is an article discussing the Pew research polling on the political preference of the various religious denominations in the last (2012) presidential election.


FEBRUARY 23, 2016

U.S. religious groups and their political leanings

Mormons are the most heavily Republican-leaning religious group in the U.S., while a pair of major historically black Protestant denominations – the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and the National Baptist Convention – are two of the most reliably Democratic groups, according to data from Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study.

Seven-in-ten U.S. Mormons identify with the Republican Party or say they lean toward the GOP, compared with 19% who identify as or lean Democratic – a difference of 51 percentage points. That’s the biggest gap in favor of the GOP out of 30 religious groups we analyzed, which include Protestant denominations, other religious groups and three categories of people who are religiously unaffiliated.


At the other end of the spectrum, an overwhelming majority of members of the AME Church (92%) identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, while just 4% say they favor the Republican Party (an 88-point gap). Similarly, 87% of members of the National Baptist Convention and 75% of members of the Church of God in Christ (another historically black denomination) identify as Democrats.

These patterns largely reflect data from exit polls during the 2012 general election. In that year, 95% of black Protestants said they voted for Democrat Barack Obama, while 78% of Mormons said they voted for Republican Mitt Romney, who also is a Mormon.


White evangelical Protestants also voted heavily Republican in 2012 (79% for Romney), which mirrors the leanings of many of the largest evangelical denominations. Members of the Church of the Nazarene are overwhelmingly likely to favor the GOP (63% Republican vs. 24% Democrat), as are the Southern Baptist Convention (64% vs. 26%) and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (59% vs. 27%), among other evangelical churches. (In our survey, members of these groups can be of any race or ethnicity, while exit polls report totals for white evangelicals in particular.)

Catholics are divided politically in our survey, just as they were in the 2012 election. While 37% say they favor the GOP, 44% identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party (and 19% say they do not lean either way). In the 2012 election, 50% of Catholics said they voted for Obama, while 48% voted for Romney.


Members of mainline Protestant churches look similar to Catholics in this regard. For example, 44% of members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) identify as or lean Republican in the survey, compared with 47% who are Democrats or Democratic-leaning. United Methodists and Anglicans are slightly more likely than other mainline groups to say they are Republicans, while members of the United Church of Christ are more likely to be Democrats.
About seven-in-ten religiously unaffiliated voters (70%) and Jews (69%) voted for Obama in 2012. A similar share of Jews in our survey (64%) say they are Democrats, while all three subsets of religious “nones” (atheists, agnostics and those who say their religion is “nothing in particular”) lean in that direction as well.


Jehovah’s Witnesses, who are taught to remain politically neutral and abstain from voting, stand out for their overwhelming identification as independents who do not lean toward either party. Three-quarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses put themselves in that category.

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