Republicans and Democrats are Not the Same

by Rick McCorkle

People ask why Republicans and Democrats can’t work together for the good of the country. It’s understandable that someone would ask that question, but it reveals that the asker doesn’t really understand what is going on and what is at stake pending the outcome of the greatest political struggle of our time. Many people are walking down the railroad tracks listening to their iPods through their Bose headphones while from behind a freight train is bearing down on them at full speed. Conservative Republicans are trying to get their attention to warn them.

Conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats can’t possibly work together any more than mongooses and cobras can. The difference between Republicans and Democrats isn’t like the difference between the Kiwanis and the Rotary club. They have diametrically opposed views and purposes. In the past it was possible for them to work together, but it no longer is, and I have to shake my head every time I hear a politician talk about “reaching across the aisle” and “working hard to achieve a bipartisan consensus.” That is meaningless drivel, and it’s only uttered by naïve politicians, or by Machiavellians who purposely deceive to win votes.

Right now, the struggle is between those who want to be free and those who think that freedom is a strange old, irrelevant concept that should be discarded along with the Constitution that guarantees it. The stakes couldn’t be higher, and this fight is to the finish. One side or the other must and will win. Republicans and Democrats can’t work together because they reflect the fundamental divide between all Americans. You may not be aware of it, but you are on one side or the other. You either believe that you should be free to make the most of your life as you choose on your own according to your faith, or that other people with money should have that money taken away from them by the government and given to you so you can enjoy the same standard of living as everyone else without having to take big risks or work hard for it with no guarantee of success.

Republicans believe in the Constitution because it is universal and timeless. It says that the people have absolute, fundamental rights given by God that government can’t take away. It is the basis for the rule of law that establishes and defends what is right regardless of the opinion of the majority. Barack Obama does not believe this about the Constitution. He and his fellow Democrats believe that the tired old concepts of the Constitution must give way to the enlightened, progressive concepts of the elite ruling class who were born to rule the ignorant masses just like the English monarchy that our founding fathers risked their lives and fortunes to resist.

Democrats believe that the only rights are those granted by government, and those rights are subject to change according to the prevailing opinions of the elite ruling class. They pretend to want to redistribute wealth for the benefit of the supposedly downtrodden, but their real objective is to make sure that all wealth and power is in the hands of the government, which must be controlled by them. Republicans are all about empowering people, but Democrats are all about keeping everyone dependent on them and subject to their rule.

Republicans tell you what they believe, but Democrats try to hide their true objectives from the unwary because they know that most Americans would reject them. Those objectives are terribly wrong. If they achieve their goals, the only possible outcome is a terrible tyranny. It’s hard for Americans to comprehend how soon their idyllic lives could become a horrible nightmare under the heavy hand of despotism. If you take a long look at history, this nightmare is more likely to become a reality than not. America is an exception to the rule in the history of mankind. If its citizens don’t wake up and defend its founding principles, it will soon be gone.

America was literally saved by the elections of 2010. If conservative Republicans had not been elected in sufficient numbers to at least control the House of Representatives, our constitution would already be out on the trash heap. Their mission is not to get along with Democrats, but to resist them and defeat them. They have done an outstanding job of defending freedom. If more Americans had only realized what was at stake and also given control of the Senate and the White House to conservative Republicans, then this country would already be safe from destruction.

Please join the fight and give time and money to conservative Republican candidates. Even moderate Republicans are better than liberal Democrats. Republicans must retain control of the House, gain the Senate, and win the presidency. If this doesn’t happen, then the best human government and the greatest country there has ever been will have lasted only a little more than two hundred years, and its citizens will return to the oppressive misery that has been the most familiar condition of man throughout most of human history.