From the Pen of David Horowitz: September 15, 2009
In understanding how far the Democratic Party has moved from its center of gravity in an earlier generation, it is salutary to remember that Democrats were once known as the more international and hawkish of the two political parties. Until the late 1960s, Democrat presidents were consistently more likely than Republicans to flex America’s military might abroad. Democrat administrations led America into both World Wars. Democrat president Harry Truman promulgated the Truman Doctrine which like Bush’s own doctrine pledged America to support peoples fighting for their freedom abroad.
No president during the Cold War sounded the call to arms more eloquently than John F. Kennedy himself, warning the enemies of freedom that America would “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty.â€
This commitment flagged and began to fail in 1972 with the presidential candidacy of George McGovern, as the radical anti-war movement that had developed during the war found a home in the Democratic Party, and began to remold its character and reshape its agendas. McGovern lost the election in the biggest landslide in American history, but in the ashes of defeat he and his allies were able to redraw the rules that governed the party and empower the radical forces inside it.
– The Shadow Party co-written with Richard Poe
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David, I heard you yesterday on the Thom Hartmann Radio program. After you left, he said you were his favorite conservative guest because you never try to skit around the issues like others do. You say what you mean.
I should also, mention that Thom never talks about his guests or let callers mention them.
There was a caller, an older gentleman, who said the reason the German universities went Fascist first was because the liberals were purged. I realize you will say that is ridiculous, just thought you should know.
We have to get Horowitz up to speed on the history of the Democrat Party. It was completely taken over by Communists whose allegiance was to the Soviet Union by 1932. The Conferences at Yalta and Tehran aided Soviet and later Chinese Communist expansion at the expense of liberty for nearly a billion people around the world. As a boy in the barber shops the veterans used to tell me they won the war but lost the peace. It wasn’t until recently did I fully understand what they meant. The Communists in American government furthered the expansion of tyranny around the world.
Let’s not forget that the Truman Doctrine, originally the Forrestal Plan was only used for Greece and Turkey. They gave minimal economic and maximum military aid to fight Communism. The rest of Europe got the Marshall Plan which gave plenty of economic and minimal military aid. This allowed the Communists in those countries to use the money and aid to further communism.
John F Kennedy was a liberal and anti-communist. Indeed, he was killed by a communist, Lee Harvey Oswald. While the speeches were inspiring, his actions in facing down tyranny were pathetic at best. Calling off naval and air support in the middle of an invasion, letting those men die and suffer in the Cuban gulag was a disgrace. Kruschev took this as a sign of weakness and began installing nukes in Cuba. While it appears the naval quarantine and military build-up forced Kruschev to remove them, he did it to force Kennedy to remove missiles in Turkey, which he did. Another sign of weakness.
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Joe McCarthy exposed several communists who had infiltrated and worked for
the Federal Govt. Democrats blocked and hindered his efforts every step of the
way.
Pbrauer, different kind of liberal …
Have you read any of David Horowitz’s works?