Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. -Plato, The Republic
If one had no idea who Barack Obama was, or who Jeremiah Wright was, and one were to see them both speaking, without knowing who they were speaking to, or where, who would you think was the preacher, and who would you think was the politician?
Wouldn't the mild-mannered, gentle, and kindly Obama look more like the cleric? And wouldn't the rabble-rousing Mr. Wright look more like the candidate, out there trying to fan the flames and move some votes?
And this, in a nutshell, is what has gone wrong for the Democratic Party as a whole.
The Dems can't tell the difference between voting and going to religious services any longer. Indeed, voting Democratic is a religious experience in itself, and a Democratic ballot is a cure-all for every evil at work in the world. The Democratic agenda is supposedly all about social justice in action, and it is a handmaid of whatever lord you may have in mind.
The mutilated women of the pre-abortion-on-demand days have supposedly found friends on the Democratic ticket. A group of committed combat feminists, anxious to extract justice for these victims, form a part of the secularized sainthood.
But do these women, whose lives were destroyed, really find justice with this ticket? Is their lot improved, is their suffering undone, or are their deaths in any way nullified-- or rectified-- with over a million abortions a year now?
Have victimized women found champions in Bill and Hillary Clinton? Bill, who walked away from the Lewinsky scandal virtually unscathed, and Monica, who was arguably destroyed?
Women's rights? "Social justice"?
And now Hillary attempts to ascend to the presidency on Bill's coattails. Had she not been Mrs. Bill Clinton-- Mrs. Bill to Mr. Bill, who talked women's rights in the abstract but walked his own in the concrete-- had Mrs. Bill Clinton been Mrs. Anyone Else, would she be in the position she is in today?
Is this more "social justice"? Marrying your resume and ignoring your own husband's inability to convert his grandiose rhetoric about women's rights into reality?
The Democratic Party talks the talk on a diverse menu of social issues. There will be women's rights. There will be happy, married, family-oriented homosexuality. There will be a new world for minorities, filled with scholarships and nice jobs and computer terminals. There will be equal opportunity for all! There will be universal health care. There will be no unwanted children. There will be no war. There will be no more unnecessary build-up in greenhouse gases. There will be "Cocoon"-like aging. There are going to be good jobs with good wages, illegal immigrants will all be wrapped up in an American flag, it won't really cost anything, we'll stamp out domestic violence, and...
It's going to be heaven on earth!
And that's why there can't be any mention of God in all of this, either.
He'd steal our votes. Because, as you can tell from our agenda, we are God! We work miracles. When everyone converts to our religion, whoops, party, we work miracles.
And this is what has happened to the Democrats. Their political agenda is God. It is heaven on earth. And you cannot tell the difference, in many cases, between the man of God and the politician. There is a fusion going on, and a strange hybrid is emerging.
The politician has come out ahead.
What did you expect?
So please, let's not blame Jeremiah Wright or Barack Obama for the circus going on now. Because what has taken center stage in the media with the Wright mess is not even Wright's fault.
It is your Democratic Party at work. And this is the new frontier.
Welcome to the Church of the DNC!