In a 5/3/19 front page article for the New
Jersey Star-Ledger, Pallone,
with new power, steers strategy on health care and climate, Tom Moran reports:
Ask Congressman Frank Pallone about the progressive push on
Medicare for All, and he waves his hand as if swatting away a buzzing fly.
“It’s not something I can accomplish,” he says. “We can’t
prioritize that because we have to prioritize things we can actually do.”
The same goes for the Green New Deal, the other bookend of the
progressive agenda being pushed by the likes of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That stuff is fine for the cable TV shows, but it
doesn’t much interest Pallone.
“I don’t focus on that because I’m trying to focus on bills,” he
says.
That says it all.
In January, Pallone became chairman of the House
Energy and Commerce Committee, which deals with climate and health care
legislation. As Moran reports, Pallone is an advocate of Canadian-style
single-payer health care. He has never met “climate legislation” he
couldn’t support. “Don’t mistake Pallone for a timid centrist,” says Moran. “He
is a full-speed progressive. . .”
Keep that in mind when you hear that the
ascendant far-Left, openly socialist wing of the Democratic Party can’t get any
traction because of “moderate” Democrats. That may be true in the short term.
But the so-called moderates are merely pragmatic socialists, who want to “get
things done”--that is, get us to full-throated socialism in piecemeal
legislative fashion.
Don’t
be fooled by the many Democrats who shun the socialist label. Socialism is
deeply embedded in the Party’s ideological DNA. On documenting the early 19th
Century Owenite and Fourier socialistic movements of 1824 and 1842,
respectively, historian John Humphrey Noyes observes that “their ideas actually
got a foot-hold and influence in the great Democratic Party” (History of American Socialisms, P.23). The entire modern Democratic
Party is firmly collectivist. The socialists have for 200 years been in control
of the party’s long-term agenda. The moderates are facilitating, not blocking,
that trend. To be sure, the Republican Party is also facilitating the socialist
trend. As Democrats abandon welfare statism and embrace socialism, the GOP is
abandoning its free market roots and is now the welfare state party.
But the Republican Party is far less bad, and
still open to re-embracing free market capitalism. The Democratic Party was
created nearly 200 years ago explicitly to repudiate America’s constitutional
republican philosophical roots in favor of a radical reinterpretation of
America as a democracy in order to defend and save slavery. It deliberately
repudiated the idea that all men are created equal and possessing inalienable
individual rights, as stated in America’s foundational philosophic document,
the Declaration of Independence. The Democratic Party was born of philosophic
treason. It has not changed its stripes, fundamentally. It is hopelessly
unredeemable. Moderates notwithstanding, when you vote for a Democrat, you are
helping to bring to power a gang with totalitarian socialist designs on
America.
This is why I will never vote for a Democrat.
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