{"id":31105,"date":"2017-01-17T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T15:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=31105"},"modified":"2017-01-17T08:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T15:30:30","slug":"long-democrats-party-abortion-deserve-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2017\/01\/long-democrats-party-abortion-deserve-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"As Long as the Democrats are the Party of Abortion, They Deserve to Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Now for a little palate cleanser.<\/p>\n

I wrote this before either of my latest posts about President Elect Trump. But, publishing being what it is, it showed up after they came out.<\/p>\n

Whatever the order of their publication, I think the summation of all these posts is that I\u2019m thoroughly disenchanted with both political parties.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve talked about converting the Democratic Party before, and what I\u2019ve said seems to fall on deaf ears.\u00a0Most pro life people just don\u2019t seem to hear me when I say it\u2019s the only real political action we can take that will work to convert this culture.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, whenever I criticize the Republicans for their crazy policies and behavior, some fool always pops up to tell me I am not pro life and am going straight to the infernal regions. That reached it\u2019s peak a few months ago when I was told that I was not only not pro life, but not even a real Catholic. Why? Because I directly quoted then candidate Donald Trump and linked to several of his unquotable-because-it\u2019s-too-vile comments.<\/p>\n

This came from someone who has stood up with me at press conferences, fighting for pro life legislation. But \u2026 evidently party loyalty and Trump trump reason.<\/p>\n

The truth is, neither of these political parties is worthy of holding power in this great nation. They are both corrupt. And neither one of them gives a care about you and me.\u00a0The public reaction to the constant stonewalling and overall bad governance we\u00a0have received at the hands of both parties played a huge part in the emotional meltdown that drove the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve reached a point where I despair that We the People will ever wake up. Our predilection for looking for someone on a white horse to save us from the exploitative practices of the Rs and the Ds\u00a0has led us into following anyone who yells loudly enough and will say things we want to hear. We follow these demagogues, even when they are clearly amoral reprobates and compulsive liars.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Democrats continue down the road of same-old, same-old. They just won\u2019t open the party up to pro life people. In fact, they do everything they can to drive us away.<\/p>\n

Where will it end?<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

Here, from the National Catholic Register,<\/a> is my discussion about the Democratic Party\u2019s closed door policy against pro life Democrats.<\/p>\n

Recently,\u00a0Democrats for Life<\/a>\u00a0sent me an email asking for money to help a pro-life Democrat who was in a run-off in Louisiana for the United States Senate. I donated money to the guy. It wasn\u2019t much money, but it represented my best wishes and fading hope that we can one day reclaim the Democratic Party for life.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t pay attention to what happened after that, so it was a while before I learned that the Democrat lost to the Republican in this race, and it was a while after that before I looked into it to see what happened. It turns out that the Democrats practically abandoned their own pro-life candidate \u2014\u00a0which\u00a0is emblematic<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0why so many Christians turned out at the polls in November to vote for a presidential candidate whose moral life might have disqualified him in another era.<\/p>\n

These Christians felt compelled to vote for what was essentially the lesser of two evils. The reason they ended up backing Donald Trump was that they honestly (and with good reason) felt that Hillary Clinton was bound to continue the invidious attacks on them and their ability to practice their faith without government harassment that was so aggressively promoted during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

The behavior of the national Democratic Party leadership in the election in Louisiana underscores and upholds that fear.<\/p>\n

The United States Senate is almost at a tie, with the number tipping by what before the election was a slender balance of one or two votes in favor of the Republicans. What that means is that there is a lot of raw power swaying first one way and the next in every single electoral battle for every single seat in that legislative body.<\/p>\n

The election in Louisiana did not stand to tip the balance decisively. It would, rather, have narrowed the margin to one vote, instead of two. The Democrats, if they had gone to bat for the pro-life Democrat on the ticket in Louisiana, had the chance to run up their total to 49 senators.<\/p>\n

But winning that senate seat would\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0have helped them oppose defunding Planned Parenthood. If the Democrats had gained that Senate seat, they would not have gotten a vote to buttress their war on the unborn.<\/p>\n

Rather, they would have gotten a vote to strengthen the war they should be fighting, which is for the safety of America in the face of legitimate concerns about treasonous activity. They would have gotten another vote to keep the social programs such as Social Security and Medicare together. They would have gotten another vote on committees and the floor in key situations involving the breadbasket issues that the party\u00a0should\u00a0<\/em>be focused on.<\/p>\n

But, sadly, the Democratic Party is not focused on those breadbasket issues. It has become an outpost for those who equate abortion with feminism and claim that legal abortion is all there is to women\u2019s rights. It has also, due to the direction in which President Obama has taken the party, become the think tank and the political leadership for official, governmental attacks on religious freedom in general and the Catholic Church, in particular.<\/p>\n

A pro-life Democrat, even in a closely-balanced United States Senate, was so unwelcome, so antithetical to the true focus of the leadership of this once great party, that they did not lift a finger to help one win this important election.<\/p>\n

The Republicans plowed into that senate race intending to win it. They put their money and their mouths behind their candidate. The Ds, at least the Ds at the DNC, sat the thing out. (Read the rest here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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