by John Perazzo
It’s not your grandfather’s Democrat Party.
The iconic broadcaster, author, and legal scholar Mark Levin
recently observed: “As a nation we’ve now turned the corner. We’ve
turned the corner into a hard tyranny…. I just want the audience to know
that we are staring into the face of tyranny, that the Democrat Party
is a totalitarian party.”
And indeed, it is. To recognize this, we need only to listen when
Democrats tell us – repeatedly – of their burning desire to “transform”
the U.S. into a radicalized cesspool by such means as:
- ending the filibuster rule so they can forcibly ram their radical legislation through the Senate;
- governing via presidential executive orders rather than navigating the normal legislative process;
- promoting immigration and border policies designed to import massive
blocs of foreigners who will eventually become reliable Democrat voters
for generations to come;
- turning the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico into new U.S.
states, thereby allowing Democrats to permanently pack the Senate with
four additional members of their party;
- expanding the Supreme Court and packing it with newly appointed leftist ideologues;
- openly defying that same Supreme Court whenever its rulings conflict with Democrat Party preferences;
- forcibly censoring the free expression of any ideas that conflict with Democrat values; and
- pursuing the impeachment and imprisonment of their political foes on the flimsiest pretexts imaginable.
Below is an abundant collection of remarkable quotes by which
immensely powerful Democrats in recent times have openly and proudly
promoted the objectives enumerated above, like the domineering
totalitarian thugs that they are.
Barack Obama
During a campaign stop in Missouri five days before Election Day 2008, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama famously said,
to thunderous applause: “Now, Mizzou, I just have two words for you
tonight: Five days. Five days…. [W]e are five days away from
fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
Three months earlier, when candidate Obama spoke in July 2008 to the open-borders group, National Council of La Raza, he stated that “together, we won’t just win an election; we will transform this nation.”
And a year before that, on July 17, 2007, candidate Obama spoke before the Planned Parenthood Action Fund to advocate for unfettered abortion rights and said:
“I am absolutely convinced that we’re not just going to win an
election, but more importantly we’re going to transform this nation.”
Indeed, nearly two decades earlier, in an interview published by the Daily Herald on March 3, 1990, Obama had candidly articulated his desire to “reshape America” and “be part of a transformation of this country.”
The Democratic Party’s 2016 Platform
In 2016, the Democratic Party’s official platform said that in an effort “to end institutional and systemic racism in our society … [w]e will push for a societal transformation.”
Joe Biden
At a March 26, 2019 presidential campaign event in New York City, Joe
Biden said: “We all have an obligation to do nothing less than change the culture in this country. This is English jurisprudential culture, a white man’s culture. It’s got to change.”
On April 13, 2020, Biden said “we can transform this
nation … so that [my administration] goes down in history … as one of
the most progressive administrations since Roosevelt.”
On May 4, 2020, Biden characterized the coronavirus pandemic as an “incredible opportunity … to fundamentally transform the country.”
In early June 2020, Biden stated that America needed to make “revolutionary institutional changes.”
On July 4, 2020, Biden pledged to “rip the roots of systemic racism out of this country” and “transform” it.
On July 13, 2020, Biden promised to make “systemic” and “institutional” changes to American society.
On October 29, 2020, Biden channeled Obama’s famous utterance from 12
years earlier and said: “Five days left [until Election Day]. Five
days. I believe when you use your power, the power of the vote, we
literally are going to change the course of this country for generations to come.”
Shortly after two mass shootings that had killed a combined total of
18 people in Colorado and Georgia, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced on March 24, 2021 that President Biden was planning to issue executive orders to address the issue of gun violence, and was “not waiting for anything to fail” in Congress.
In a September 9, 2021 speech announcing new federal COVID vaccine mandates, Biden said: “And
tonight, I’m calling on all governors to require vaccination for all
teachers and staff…. Let me be blunt. My plan also takes on elected
officials in states that are undermining [teachers] and these lifesaving
actions. […] If they’ll not help, if these governors won’t help us
beat the pandemic, I’ll use my power as president to get them out of the
way.”
On September 25, 2021, Biden said the
following about the $1.9 trillion infrastructure bill that he was
promoting: “My first piece of economic legislation will “fundamentally
change the structure and the nature of the economy in this country.”
On October 4, 2021, Biden – citing the October 18 deadline by which
time the Democrat-controlled Congress was seeking to raise the federal
debt limit in order to allow for more government borrowing – condemned
Senate Republicans for using the filibuster rule to block such a
measure. “Republicans just have to let us do our job,” said Biden. “Just
get out of the way. If you don’t want to help save the country, get out
of the way so you don’t destroy it.”
On October 5, 2021, Biden said there was a “real possibility”
that Senate Democrats might use their razor-thin majority to suspend
the filibuster rule so they could forcibly raise the debt ceiling even
with no Republican support at all.
During a June 30, 2022 press conference, Biden was asked what “specific actions” he might take in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “I believe we have to codify Roe v. Wade in
the law,” he said, “and the way to do that is to make sure Congress
votes to do that. And if the filibuster gets in the way … we provide an
exception for this, we require an exception to the filibuster for this
action to deal with the Supreme Court decision.”
During a September 30, 2022 speech for Hispanic Heritage Month, Biden celebrated what
he viewed as the political benefits of the mass migration – legal and
illegal — of Mexicans and Central Americans into the United States.
“When in American history has there been a circumstance where one
ethnicity has the potential to have such a profound impact on the
direction of a country?” he asked rhetorically. “Twenty-six percent of
every child who’s in school today speaks Spanish — 26 percent,” Biden
added.
Bernie Sanders
In October 2019, then-presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said in a tweet: “Our campaign is not only about changing the system politically and economically. We will change the value system of this country.”
In August 2020, Sanders, who by then had dropped out of the presidential race, said that
“when Joe Biden is elected president, when we have a Democratic House,
when we have a Democratic Senate, we can begin the process of
transforming this government and our nation.”
Charles Schumer
In a September 30, 2020 interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid, then-Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer
speculated about what he and his fellow Democrats could accomplish if
they were to win both the White House and a majority in the U.S. Senate:
“I’m not busting my chops to become majority leader to do very little
or nothing, We are going to get a whole lot done. And as I’ve said,
everything, everything is on the table.” He further elaborated: “I would
— believe me, on D.C. and Puerto Rico … I’d love to make them states.”
On the afternoon of November 7, 2020 — shortly after America’s
largest media networks announced that Joe Biden had won the Electoral
College vote in the disputed 2020 presidential election — Schumer,
raising a clenched left fist for emphasis, told a
jubilant crowd of supporters in Brooklyn: “Now we take Georgia, and
then we change the world! Now we take Georgia, and then we change
America!” (This was a reference to the two upcoming Senate runoff
elections slated for January 5, 2021 in Georgia. If the Democrats could
win both, they would gain control of the U.S. Senate.)
In a January 30, 2021 interview with Al Sharpton on MSNBC’s Politics Nation,
Schumer, who was now the Senate Majority Leader, re-emphasized his
commitment to bringing transformational change to the United States:
“Well, Rev, we have one goal: big, bold change in America” which would
include “dealing with D.C. and Puerto Rican statehood.” He also
articulated his desire to end the Senate filibuster rule, thereby
empowering his party to ram its radical agenda down the throat of a
deeply divided nation at a time when Democrats controlled both the House
and Senate by the slimmest of margins.
At a March 16, 2021 press conference, Schumer spoke about the prospect of Democrats either dispensing with
the Senate filibuster rule, or circumventing it by means of the budget
reconciliation process (by which budget-related bills can pass with a
simple majority and do not require 60 votes to overcome a filibuster).
“[W]e must get bold change,” he said. “And if our Republican friends
block it, we’re going to put our heads together and figure out the best
way to go. Everything’s on the table. It’s plain and simple.”
- This was a stark contrast to what Schumer had said about the
prospect of ending the filibuster in 2005, when Republicans held a solid
majority in the Senate. SaidSchumer
at that time: “The ideologues in the Senate want to turn what the
Founding Fathers called ‘the cooling saucer of democracy’ into the
rubber stamp of dictatorship. We will not let them. They want – because
they can’t get their way on every judge – to change the rules in
midstream, to wash away 200 years of history. They want to make this
country into a banana republic, where if you don’t get your way, you
change the rules…. It would be a doomsday for democracy if we do.”
- Schumer had similarly spoken out against ending the filibuster in April 2017, when he suggested
that President Donald Trump should replace his Supreme Court nominee,
Judge Neil Gorsuch, with “a mainstream nominee” who would be able to
garner 60 votes in the Senate — rather than allowing the majority
Republicans to do away with the filibuster and confirm Gorsuch with a
simple majority vote: “Look, when a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you
shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.”
On October 4, 2021, Senator Schumer, who wished to be able to raise
the federal debt ceiling without any Republican support whatsoever, said: “We only ask that they [the Republicans] get out of the way, let Democrats pass it on our own …”
Nancy Pelosi
In September 2020, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared: “We can impeach him [Trump] every day of the week for anything he does.”
On October 12, 2021, Pelosi lamented
the fact that some Democrats wished to scale back their party’s
ten-year, $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better” spending bill. But she vowed
that while the legislation’s price tag might be negotiated down,
changes to the bill “only would be [made] in such a way that does not
undermine the transformative nature of it.”
Jen Psaki
During an October 12, 2021 press briefing,
White House press secretary Jen Psaki discussed the ongoing negotiation
between Democrat legislators vis-a-vis the $3.5 trillion “Build Back
Better” bill that the Biden administration was hoping to pass. “The
president wants to make fundamental change in our economy, and he feels
coming out of the pandemic is exactly the time to do that,” she said.
Maxine Waters
At a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation event on September 21, 2017, Rep. Maxine Waters asserted that
Congress could impeach President Trump for any reason it chose.
“Impeachment is about whatever the Congress says it is,” she said.
“There is no law that can dictate impeachment. What the Constitution
says is high crimes and misdemeanors, and we define that.”
In a July 22, 2019 tweet,
Waters predicted that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s appearance
before Congress on July 24 would open the door for Democrats to impeach
President Trump “immediately” and then incarcerate him. Wrote
Waters: “Impeachment first, prison next!”
After the Supreme Court officially announced its decision to strike down Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, Waters, flanked by fellow Congressional Democrat Al Green, joined a throng of pro-abortion activists outside the Supreme Court building and told reporters:
“You ain’t seen nothing yet. Women are going to control their bodies no
matter how they try and stop us. The hell with the Supreme Court. We
will defy them!”
Ed Markey
In a June 30, 2022 appearance on MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson Reports, Senator Ed Markey exhorted the
Senate to eliminate the filibuster rule and pass “abortion rights” that
would circumvent the recent Supreme Court decision and permanently
enshrine Roe v. Wade as the law of the land. Said Markey: “I
think the Congress should take up the offer that Joe Biden has made to
repeal the filibuster. Carve out of the filibuster an exception for
abortion rights …”
Mazie Hirono
In an interview with CNN on March 5, 2021, Senator Mazie Hirono said: “I definitely support
filibuster reform, and part of that is ending the filibuster. It could
be totally, or it could be for certain kinds of bills, but I’m
definitely open to making those kinds of changes so we can get things
done …”
Dianne Feinstein
On March 19, 2021, Senator Dianne Feinstein released a statement
saying that, contrary to her previously articulated position, she was
now supportive of ending the Senate filibuster: “[I]f … Republicans
continue to abuse the filibuster by requiring cloture votes, I’m open to
changing the way the Senate filibuster rules are used.”
Bob Menendez
In a June 23, 2021 interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Senator Bob Menendez said he was in favor of enacting a “democracy exception” to the filibuster rule in order to enable Democrats to pass the “For the People Act,” their radical “election-reform” bill, with a simple majority in the U.S. Senate.
Andrew Cuomo
At a July 26, 2021 media briefing, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the launch of a new initiative allocating
$15 million in taxpayer funds to promote the vaccination of the 3.5
million New Yorkers who had not yet been inoculated against coronavirus.
“We have to get in those communities,” he said, “and we have to knock
on those doors, and we have to convince people, and put them in a car,
and drive them, and get that vaccine in their arm. That is the mission.”
Cedric Richmond
On September 9, 2021, White House senior adviser Cedric Richmond stated that
President Biden would “run over” any Republican governors who might try
to resist the new federal vaccine mandates. “The one thing I admire
about this president,” said Richmond, “is the fact that we are always
going to put people above politics. And those governors that stand in
the way, I think, it was very clear from the president’s tone [in his
speech] today that he will run over them.”
Elizabeth Warren
On September 7, 2021, Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter
to Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy, demanding that the company use its
algorithms to suppress the sale of books that, according to the senator,
were spreading “COVID-19 misinformation.”
Ilhan Omar
In September 2019, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough said
it was “not appropriate” for Senate Democrats to attempt to pass their
proposed pathway-to-citizenship provision by means of the budget reconciliation process which would require only a simple majority rather than the normal 60 votes. In response to that, Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar
tweeted: “This ruling by the parliamentarian is only a recommendation.
Sen. Schumer and the White House can and should ignore it.”
Mondaire Jones
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on June 2, 2022, New York Democrat Mondaire Jones
delivered an impassioned speech stating that Republicans would not be
able to prevent the majority Democrats from using every trick at their
disposal to pass gun-control legislation in Congress: “You will not stop
us from advancing the Protecting Our Kids Act today. You will not stop
us from passing it in the House next week. And you will not stop us
there. If the filibuster obstructs us, we will abolish it. If the
Supreme Court objects, we will expand it.”
Julian Castro
In January 2013, San Antonio mayor Julian Castro spoke with CBS News’ Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation and
predicted that because of mass immigration from Central America — both
legal and illegal — the state of Texas would soon change from
majority-Republican to majority-Democrat. Said Castro
with delight: “In a couple of presidential cycles, you’ll be on
election night, you’ll be announcing we’re calling the 38 electoral
votes of Texas for the Democratic nominee for president. It’s changing.
It’s going to become a purple state and then a blue state, because of
the demographics, because of the population growth of folks from outside
of Texas …”
Pramila Jayapal
During a January 2, 2022 appearance on MSNBC’s The Sunday Show, Rep. Pramila Jayapal applauded Twitter for
its decision to permanently ban the personal account of Republican
congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who, according to the social media
giant, had been spreading “misinformation” about the COVID-19 pandemic
and the vaccines designed to combat it. “I think it’s just as well that
we take one voice [Greene’s] that is deliberately spreading
disinformation out of the mix as much as possible,” said Jayapal.
“That’s certainly a good thing.”
Ruben Gallego
On February 22, 2022, Rep. Ruben Gallego called for
government and law-enforcement agencies to forcibly seize and then give
away the vehicles of truck drivers who were heading to the District of
Columbia in a peaceful convoy to protest the Biden administration’s
COVID-19 vaccine mandates. “Perfect time to impound and give the trucks
to small trucking companies looking to expand their business,” Gallego
tweeted.
Conclusion
There you have it – the Democratic Party in all its totalitarian
glory. Whatever obstacles its members may face, their instinctive
response is always the same: iron-fisted thuggery.
If the Senate filibuster rule thwarts the Democrats’ legislative
desires, they portray it as an antiquated relic of a racist epoch and
demand that it be canceled.
If Democrats’ control of the U.S. Senate hangs precariously in the
balance, they demand the sudden creation of a group of brand new
majority-Democrat states that each will yield two new Democrat senators.
If Democrats are unable to cobble together electoral majorities in a
few crucial swing states, they import massive blocs of people from
across the globe who will eventually become reliable Democrat voters for
generations to come.
If the radical-left Justices who sit on the Supreme Court are
outnumbered by their originalist colleagues, Democrats seek to expand
the Court and then pack it with newly appointed leftist ideologues to
rubber-stamp every Democrat agenda item.
When that same Supreme Court issues rulings that conflict with
Democratic Party preferences, the Democrats pledge with passionate zeal
to defy those rulings.
If anyone dares to challenge Democrat positions on matters like the
merits of critical race theory, COVID vaccine mandates,
“gender-affirming” surgeries for minors, or claims that the 2020
presidential election was rife with Democrat corruption, Democrats
respond by demanding that the most influential social-media platforms on
Earth should censor and ban such heretics from the digital public
square.
And, when challenged by a former Republican President who was highly
effective at exposing and mocking the vapidity of various leftwing
ideals and policies, the Democrats, in the longstanding tradition of
fascists and communists from across the globe, simply call for his
impeachment, arrest, and imprisonment.
If Democrats are not the party of totalitarianism, what else would you call them?
John Perazzo
Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-eyes-of-totalitarianism/
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