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In this bogus narrative, Republicans are the bad guys because Republicans opposed the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. For progressive Democrats, the Civil Rights Movement is the canonical event of American history. It is even more important than the American Revolution. Progressive reasoning is: We did this, so it must be the greatest thing that was ever done in America. Republicans opposed it, which makes them the bad guys.
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The only problem is that Republicans were instrumental--actually indispensable--in getting the Civil Rights laws passed. While Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the backing of some northern Democrats, Republicans voted in far higher percentages for the bill than Democrats did. This was also true of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Neither would have passed with just Democratic votes. Indeed, the main opposition to both b..
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Most people know the Nineteenth Amendment granting women's suffrage was passed in 1919 and ratified by the states the following year. What few people know is there was a forty-year struggle over that amendment, with Republicans pushing for it and Democrats opposing it, until the Republicans finally had the votes to get it through. Republicans proposed women's suffrage as early as 1878, but it was voted down by a Democrat-controlled Congress..
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The Wall Street Journal reports that during Hillary's tenure as secretary of state, some sixty companies that lobbied the State Department donated more than $26 million to the Clinton Foundation. "At least 44 of those 60 companies also participated in philanthropic projects valued at $3.2 billion that were set up through a wing of the foundation called the Clinton Global Initiative." In some cases, the Journal reports, "donations came after..
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Hillary places herself in this progressive tradition, and in a sense she belongs there. She's just as bad--actually worse--than her shameful predecessors. It's an eye-opening story. The facts told here, both about history and about Hillary's story, are indisputable and yet they are scarcely known to most people. Until I researched this book, I didn't know them all myself. That's because I'm a victim, as you are, of a progressive cover-up.
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The cover-up is the work of progressives in education and the media. The progressives are part of the Democratic team; they are, in fact, the ideologues of the party. They have been given a very specific assignment: to bury the truth and spin a lie to sell their team's political merchandise. This they have assiduously and effectively carried out. Progressives can be counted on to respond with outrage to this book, not because what I say is ..
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The canard about the Civil Rights Movement is embedded within a larger deception that progressives uniformly put forward. This deception is intended to defuse the sordid history of the Democratic Party's two-century involvement in a parade of evils from slavery to segregation to lynching to forced sterilization to support for fascism to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. All these horrors are the work of the Democrati..
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EXPOSING THE LIE In this book I expose this progressive narrative as a lie. In reality the Democratic Party is now what it has been from the beginning--the party of subjugation, oppression, exploitation, and theft. The Democrats are not the party of justice or equality, but rather, of systematic injustice and inequality. Far from championing the cause of women, blacks, and other minorities, Democrats have historically brutalized, segregated..
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To understand Hillary, we must solve the Hillary enigma. The Hillary enigma is why anyone--any American, any Democrat, even Bill--would consider voting for her. Yes, I know she wants to be the first woman president. But women across the country, in high positions and in low, are doing things, accomplishing things. This woman has been in public life for decades, and yet she has accomplished nothing.
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There is no one else. The GOP has, from the beginning, been the team--and the only team--that can stop and did stop the marauding Democrats. The Republicans have done it for 150 years, from slavery through the Ku Klux Klan through eugenics and forced sterilization through the Civil Rights Movement. Why don't we have slavery today? How has the Klan gone from a massive organization to a joke? Why do blacks and other minorities today have equa..
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Over the Democrats' opposition, Republicans passed the Fourteenth Amendment securing for blacks equal rights under the law, and the Fifteenth Amendment giving blacks the right to vote.
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the morality of capitalism, just like the morality of democracy, is rooted in consent.
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It is a fact that today steel can be made more cheaply outside America. This is also true of many other products: shoes, shirts, toys, and so on. Cars are different--Detroit's prosperity plummeted because auto executives made bad decisions and overpaid their workers. Consequently others figured out how to make cars better and more cheaply not only in Korea and Japan, but also in other states like North Carolina. There is unintentional comed..
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Hillary marched inexorably toward the nomination even while shunting aside the risks of an FBI investigation. While some Republicans have long suspected the FBI would recommend an indictment that would end her candidacy, Hillary has operated on the premise that the Obama Justice Department won't indict her--the Democratic Party's frontrunner, and Obama's presumptive successor. So far, she's proven right. Even in the unlikely event she is in..
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Yet when is the last time a major political party nominated someone who has been investigated for corruption so many times, and with an ongoing FBI inquiry? Nixon of course was impeached and resigned in disgrace, but there was no investigation and no impeachment prior to his 1972 reelection. Nixon up to that point had a spotless record, while Hillary's record could only be described as very, very spotty. Yet she has a whole team rooting for..
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coercive government policies strip the virtue out of every transaction.
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we now have a Leviathan state, far from the limited government the Founders envisioned.
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Hillary served as a U.S. senator from New York but did not propose a single important piece of legislation; her record is literally a blank slate. Liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas admits that she "doesn't have a single memorable policy or legislative accomplishment to her name."2 Despite traveling millions of miles as secretary of state, Hillary negotiated no treaties, secured no agreements, prevented no conflicts--in short, she accomplishe..
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the Declaration of Independence does not mean we are equal in endowments, only in rights.
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I thought of myself as a revolutionary, committed to overturning the whole system of empire.1 BILL AYERS, PUBLIC ENEMY
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My conclusion is that technological capitalism is by far the best system for giving entrepreneurs and workers their "fair share." This fair share, whether measured in terms of profits or wages, is precisely what people are entitled to as a result of the value they create for their fellow citizens. While short-term inequality frequently results from the dynamic energy of a capitalist economy, that energy also produces mass affluence that ult..
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The Democrats, of course, tell a different story. This story has two separate versions, both of which I deal with in this book. The first version is that the Democrats have always been the good guys. This story is the equivalent of the defense lawyer who says, "My client is not guilty and has always been, as he is now, an upstanding citizen." This is the portrait of the Democratic Party that will be on full display at the Democratic Nationa..
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How did we get the 1960s? One is tempted to locate the ideological roots of this era in the 1930s. The expansion of the welfare state that President Lyndon Johnson termed the Great Society seems to have originated in President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal three decades earlier. It is true that FDR made some radical speeches that repudiate the principles of the founding. While the Founders considered the government to be the enemy of rights..
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We remain the custodians of the idea that wealth should be obtained through
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If Jefferson and the Founders knew that all men are created equal, why not outlaw slavery from the outset? The simple answer is that had they done so, there would never have been a union. Historian Eugene Genovese states the obvious, "If the Constitution had not recognized slavery, the Southern states would never have entered the union." So the choice facing the Founders in Philadelphia was not whether to have slavery or not. Rather, it was..
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Tocqueville writes that, for Americans, religion "must be regarded as the first of their political institutions."
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The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by a group of former Confederate soldiers; its first grand wizard was a Confederate general who was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. The
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As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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Pragmatist William James put the matter with characteristic realism: Atheists are like people who live on a frozen lake surrounded by cliffs that offer no means of escape. They know that the ice is melting and the inevitable day is coming when they must plunge ignominiously into the water. This prospect is as meaningless as it is horrifying. The Christian too must endure the chill and the inevitability of death, but his faith enables him to..
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But there is also a rival view, which we can call the mainstream progressive or Obama view. This view agrees with the diagnosis of America but provides a different remedy. The mainstream progressive remedy is guilt and atonement. Americans, in this view, should feel guilty about what they have done and continue to do. Moreover, Americans--especially those who are productive and successful--must realize that their wealth is illegitimate and ..
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So what did Mussolini do? He founded, as he put it, the only genuinely socialist government in the world, with the possible exception of the Soviet Union.35 Mussolini attempted to put into effect what he termed the "true socialism" that he said "plutocratic elements and sections of the clergy" had prevented him from implementing in Italy. At Salo, Mussolini outlined a socialist program that went beyond anything he attempted in Italy. The ne..
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On March 23, 1919, one of the most famous socialists in Italy founded a new party, the Fasci di Combattimento, a term that means "fascist combat squad." This was the first official fascist party and thus its founding represents the true birth of fascism. By the same token, this man was the first fascist. The term "fascism" can be traced back to 1914, when he founded the Fasci Rivoluzionari d'Azione Internazionalista, a political movement wh..
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For Obama, however, it is good for America to have less influence. In tune with his progressive and anti-colonial ideology, Obama regards the American empire as the only remaining empire in the world. While America exalts democratic and universalistic ideals, in reality its foreign policy has been based on self-interest and plunder. America has used its power irresponsibly, to dominate others and to control their oil and other resources. Co..
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Obama's teacher at Harvard Law School and friend since then, has sought to hide his association with Obama. "I am a leftist," he later told an Obama biographer, "and by conviction as well as temperament, a revolutionary. Any association of mine with Barack Obama . . . could only do harm." Unger advocates what he terms "world revolution," a basic takeover of financial institutions and their reshaping to serve global..
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Jackson read the Indian treaties in much the same way that Democrats and progressives today read the U.S. Constitution. They care little about what it says; they interpret it to mean what they want it to mean. Jackson
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But it's worth noting, because successive generations of Democrats have continued Jackson's practice of trying to discredit nonwhite opponents by portraying them as inauthentic. Today
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the higher-ups at the
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The 1960s was motivated by repudiation of the old way and the quest for a new way. "Liberation" now came to mean liberation from old values--from the spirit of 1776. This took many shapes and forms--drugs, religious experimentation, sexual promiscuity, even bra-burning, as well as protesting, looting, and rioting. Perhaps most repulsive was the heartless ingratitude and even meanness that young people showed their parents. When frugal, hard..
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The Clintons' last act before leaving the White House was to take stuff that didn't belong to them. The Clintons took china, furniture, electronics, and art worth around $360,000. Hillary literally went through the rooms of the White House with an aide, pointing to things that she wanted taken down from shelves or out of cabinets or off the wall. By Clinton theft standards $360,000 is not a big sum, but it certainly underlines the couple's ..
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Earlier generations of Americans had to strive to provide food, clothing, and shelter for themselves and their children. This task could prove laborious, unending, backbreaking, but it also provided a goal and a horizon for life. It conferred dignity and a genuine sense of meaning and accomplishment. By contrast, the children of the 1960s had nothing comparable to live for. As far as they could see, the struggle against necessity no longer ..
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Of these, the Creek were known to be the most recalcitrant. Jackson proved his mettle by showing he could mow them down and massacre them into submission, earning his subsequent reputation as an "Indian killer." Today we may wince at the title, but it was considered a compliment among Jackson's Democratic supporters."
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Both the fascists and the progressives viewed the centralized state as the logical outgrowth of everything they stood for. It's all very well to talk about the nation of producers and the interests of the nation, but who decides what its true interests are? Socialists claim to be in favor of equitable redistribution of income and wealth, but who determines what is equitable and does the actual redistribution? To these questions, the fascist..
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Obama is the first president whose ideology was shaped by the radical 1960s. Bill Clinton was the first president who grew up in the 1960s, yet Clinton was also shaped by older influences, including Southern patriotism and Bible Belt conservatism. Clinton came of age in the era of the sexual revolution, and his personal behavior displayed the self-indulgence of the 1960s, yet Clinton's policies showed nothing of the animus toward America th..
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A third entrepreneurial contribution is risk. While labor gets paid its fixed wage, the entrepreneurs take all the risk. Entrepreneurs might do well, but they might also lose money, ending up worse than they were before they started. The worker's risk is much lower: at worst, he's out of a job and doesn't get additional wages. No one, however, asks the worker to receive wages only if the company does well, or to give back wages to help the ..
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