U.S.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks during a town hall meeting at Canyon Springs
High School on March 1, 2019, in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Harris is campaigning
for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
The disgusting, pathetic pandering of many of the
Democrat 2020 presidential hopefuls to the far-left progressive movement is
embarrassing and beneath the dignity of the Office they seek.
It is pitiful!
In a blatant appeal to the radical wing of the Democratic
Party and those new left-wing extremists who are dominating the Democratic
debate, they are ignoring the vast majority of hardworking Americans.
If the past month has shown us anything, it has made
clear that the Democratic Party, through a few of its newly elected radical
Members of Congress and many of its 2020 presidential contenders, is redefining
itself to appeal to the radical progressive left — not mainstream America.
They have taken pandering to new low trying to see who
can become more outlandish:
- Advocating
reparations for slavery with no criteria as to whom would benefit: would
recipients include privileged blacks who have no family history of
American slavery such as 2020 candidate Senator Kamala Harris, D-CA?
- Failing
to condemn infanticide.
- Packing
and reorganizing the Supreme Court.
- Eliminating
the Electoral College (so only the large liberal urban states will select
presidents).
- Lowering
the federal voting age to 16 to “capture” young
voters who would most likely be sympathetic to the socialistic free
medical care and education policies advocated by many of the 2020
wannabees.
- Expressing
neither sympathy nor empathy for families of those killed by illegal
immigrants and illegal drugs which are pouring across the southwestern
border.
- Condemning
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for enforcing immigration laws
while taking sides with illegal immigrants and defending sanctuary cities.
- Failing
to acknowledge and condemn sex trafficking and abuse of children,
especially young girls by drug cartels.
- Allowing
illegal immigrants to participate in the social security system.
If these examples of pandering were not enough, the
height of pandering would be for a male candidate to announce — before the
primaries — that he is selecting a black or white female as his running mate!
Pandering isn’t limited to the candidates.
It also extends to the Democratic leaders and
establishment.
In the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives,
rather than risk offending Muslims and blacks by specifically criticizing black
Somali-American Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, for her anti-Semitic
comments, Democrats chose to slap Jews and Israel in the face and opted for a
watered-down resolution shielding her and condemning virtually all forms of
bigotry — not really a hard sell.
In the Senate, rather than stand up for the rights of
children to live after a botched abortion, Democrats pandered to Planned
Parenthood and the abortion lobby and refused to support a bill that would have
penalized doctors who failed to exercise care in saving the lives of children
who survive
an abortion or attempted abortion.
While candidates play the “reparations” game to pander to
blacks, they do not let such pandering get in the way of maintaining power.
It seems like only yesterday that Democrats, including
some of the candidates, were clamoring for the resignations of the Governor and
Attorney General of Virginia for appearing in black face — until it was learned
that the successor to the Governor could be a Republican since the black Lt.
Governor was facing allegations from two different women.
Democratic indignation over black face suddenly
evaporated.
The real shame is the silence of what used to be
mainstream Democrats who appear to be afraid of, or are intimidated by, these
new left-wing radicals who are steam-rolling their party.
By their silence, they are allowing the new extremists,
and their media allies, to dominate the Democratic Party debate and frame the
issues. In doing so, they are ignoring — and alienating — the vast majority of
hardworking Americans who occupy most of the country between the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts.
If Democrats and their eventual nominee continue down
this road, they might find themselves in the position of Walter Mondale in 1984
— Reagan defeated him not only in a 525-13 electoral
college landslide but also gave him the second largest popular
vote defeat in history — nearly 17 million!
Clarence V. McKee is president of McKee
Communications, Inc., a government, political, and media relations consulting
firm in Florida. He held several positions in the Reagan administration as well
as in the Reagan presidential campaigns. He is a former co-owner of WTVT-TV in
Tampa and former president of the Florida Association of Broadcasters. Read
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