The Democratic Party Is Alienated From & Hates the USA

By E. Jeffrey Ludwig  /  American Thinker

At the high school where I formerly taught for 15 years in Brooklyn, N.Y., the Pledge of Allegiance was not recited when I arrived there in 1997.  I was told that it had not been recited since 1966 because of the anti-Vietnam War protests.  At that time, students, faculty, and administration agreed, the USA was supporting a corrupt government in Vietnam to protect oil interests, to promote a phony anti-communist script, and to deny the Vietnamese people their true national identity – namely, a united nation under their national hero, Ho Chi Minh.  According to those antiwar activists, there was no sense in which we could be standing for “liberty and justice for all.”

Now, since the 9/11 attack of 2001, the Pledge is recited on a daily basis, but students are allowed not to stand for it.  In 9th grade, most stand.  In 10th grade, about half stand.  By 11th grade, if two or three stand, a patriotic teacher may consider himself lucky.  However, most of the teachers do not stand and do not recite the Pledge.  And in 12th grade, none stands.  Thus, there is a clear correlation between academic progress in the high school and patriotic respect, or rather lack of same.

One of my communist colleagues said to me, “Standing and reciting the Pledge has nothing to do with love of country or patriotism.  It’s just a gesture.”  Is it not an expression of commitment to our country despite there being different levels of enthusiasm or “love” motivating the saying of that pledge?  I totally  disagree with that colleague on this matter, and although I would not call him a traitor for not supporting the saying of the Pledge, I do think his commitment to and gratitude for living in the land of the free and the home of the brave (he’d disagree with that phrase as well) are deficient.

The above phenomenon in the NYC public schools reveals the extent of leftist alienation from our national history, our national destiny, and our national responsibility.  The depth of leftist alienation from our national vision cannot be glossed over.  Every day, we see President Donald Trump dogmatically repudiated by the leftist media and the politicians of the left. 

The American public, which is far more aligned to the left than in the 1950s to the 1980s, sadly does not see the alienation from classic American ideals as even being a left-right issue.  Rather, those who identify with the unworthy Democratic Party often see the Democrats as merely trying to correct inequities in “the system.”  The Democrats have successfully sold the view that they are more compassionate and concerned for the “downtrodden” than the Republicans.  They have successfully deceived too many people into not seeing that the Democrats are themselves – by denying God, the working man, individual liberty, the moral law, patriotism, the Christian roots of America, the right to life, and free markets – oppressing the very people they claim to be helping (women, gays, blacks, American Indians, trannies, etc.).  They do not realize and do not believe that the Democrats are now driven by a cultural Marxist and deep-seated ideological commitment to overthrow capitalism.  Democratic voters do not understand that the leaders of their party want to so control the U.S. wealth as to in effect collaborate with the titans of finance in a kind of syndicalist (fascist) venture in order to feather their own nests.  Their motives are impure, and their goals are unrealistic.  They do not love the United States of America, and citizens who do not love their country will destroy their country.

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