By Mark Baisley
Monday, August 05, 2013
Today’s term is psycho-political projection
|siko'p?'litiko'pr?'jekSH?n|. This
contraction of words labels the political application of the word projection in
the Oxford Dictionary of Sociology, “…in a psychoanalytic context, it describes
the unconscious process in which the individual attributes to others his or her
own emotions and impulses. Sigmund Freud
regarded it as a common defence mechanism, used by the ego to control
unacceptable feelings, thereby helping to reduce anxiety.”
This is the syndrome that I hereby assign to those of the
LEFT who so freely launch accusations for which they themselves harbor a secret
sense of guilt. The pattern for this
condition is openly on display at the Democratic Party website:
www.democrats.org/about/our_history.
This webpage, proudly labeled Our Party, Our History, opens with the
statement, “For more than 200 years, our party has led the fight for civil
rights, health care, Social Security, workers' rights, and women's rights.”
I will quickly skip past the ripe opportunities to blast
the Democratic Party on diminishing the quality of health care, reducing employment
opportunities, and dooming Social Security to go belly up in 2035. But I am compelled to take a swipe at their
claim for leading the fight for women’s rights before I move on to the party’s
most egregious departure from the facts.
The Democratic Party coined the incriminating slogan War
on Women, reserved for Republicans who found a higher priority for the right to
life than they did for the right to abort.
The label was effectively applied to boorish Republican candidates in
2012. The National Organization for
Women locks arms with the Democratic Party in pointing out the personal
failings of Republican men when the evidence shows that Democratic men set for
themselves a much lower standard for chivalry.
Let me just conclude this thought with the loaded words, Bob Filner,
Elliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner. Oh,
and Bill Clinton.
But by far the most preposterous assertion in the
Democratic Party’s statement is that they have led the fight for civil rights
for 200 years. If they had any sense of
candor, their website would show their history of leading a War on Black
Americans.
In 1856, the Democratic Party ruled everything; the White
House and nearly two-thirds of both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of
Representatives. The opposition party, the
Whigs, was utterly ineffective in trying to overcome the Democratic Party’s
stronghold on laws that kept slavery legal and acceptable.
Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, a Whig, delivered a
fiery speech in May of 1856 that railed against the Democrats for their pushing
slavery onto the new state of Kansas.
Two days later, while quietly writing at his desk on the Senate floor,
Democratic Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina delivered a cruel blow
to the back of Sumner’s head with the weighty metal end of his cane. Many of Brooks’ fellow Democrats gifted him
with more canes as an expression of their approval for his violent assault.
Even though the injury put Senator Sumner in a wheel
chair for three years, he worked with his closest friend, Abraham Lincoln, in
forming the Republican Party. While the
new Republican Party led the actual fight for civil rights, the Democratic
Party fought against freedom for black Americans in every way, ultimately
collapsing into civil war.
In 1789, the Republican controlled Congress passed the
Northwest Ordinance that prohibited slavery in a federal territory. In 1820,
the Democratic Congress passed the Missouri Compromise and reversed that
earlier policy, permitting slavery in almost half of the federal territories.
In 1850, Democrats in Congress passed the “Fugitive Slave
Law” requiring Northerners to return escaped slaves back into slavery or pay
huge fines.
1856, the Democratic platform took a position strongly
defending slavery and warned that, “All efforts of the abolitionists… are
calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences and all such
efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people”.
In 1857, a Democratically controlled Supreme Court
delivered the Dred Scott decision, declaring that blacks were not persons or
citizens but instead were property and therefore had no rights.
The 13th Amendment to abolish slavery was voted for by
100% of the Republicans in Congress and by 23% of the Democrats in Congress.
Not a single one of the 56 Democrats in Congress voted
for the 15th amendment that granted explicit voting rights to black Americans.
In 1866 Democrats formed the Ku Klux Klan to pave the way
for Democrats to regain control in the elections. The Colored Citizens of Frankfort, Kentucky
wrote a letter to Congress appealing that, “our services to the government and
our race have become the special object of hatred and persecution at the hands
of the Democratic Party.”
In the 19th century, Democrats prevented Black Americans
from going to public school. In the 20th
and 21st century Democrats prevented Black Americans trapped in failing schools
from choosing a better school. In fact Democrats voted against the bill by 99%.
On June 1, 1865, Senator Charles Sumner remarked on what
is now considered the most famous speech by President Abraham Lincoln. In his
eulogy for the slain president, Sumner called the Gettysburg Address a
"monumental act." He stated that Lincoln had been mistaken that
"the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here."
Rather, the Bostonian remarked, "The world noted at once what he said, and
will never cease to remember it. The battle itself was less important than the
speech."
IT IS NOT the Republicans NOR IS IT the conservatives who
own a recorded history of oppressing Americans of color. Far the opposite is the case. The Democratic Party has unfairly and
untruthfully dealt with their guilty conscience by projecting the tendencies of
their world view onto the opposition; psycho-political projection.
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