J. Robert Smith – The longstanding idea that the two major American political parties are just means to ends needs revision. The Democrat Party, dating back to Andrew Jackson, with roots in the older Jeffersonian antifederalist coalition, really hasn’t changed much in a critical aspect: it’s the party of antilife. The party of slavery and, post-Civil War, Jim Crow moved seamlessly into the party of abortion. Even today’s open southern border fits the bill.
Slavery was antilife, in that it was exploitive and cruel. Jim Crow was oppressive, which is a form of antilife. Abortion is cruel and genocidal. An estimated 63 million babies have been extinguished since the now defunct Roe v. Wade occurred in 1973. A disproportionate number of those babies are black. Democrats seem blind to the irony. Continue reading