OPINION:
The Democratic National Convention provided its quadrennial dose of hypocrisy and obfuscation as its organizers launched the Clinton-Kaine ticket into the general election.
The alleged Russian hack of the DNC emails that showed the coordinated effort to rig the primary for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders was met with liberal outrage — over the foreign meddling. President Obama dispatching political operatives to Israel in 2015 in a failed attempt to defeat incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu elicited silent approval.
The absence of any non-burning American flags during the first few nights of the convention was in stark contrast to the various Communist flags proudly waved inside the convention hall.
The ’social justice’ bromides about Wall Street and big business were on display, too: The minimum wage must be raised and corporations are evil and greedy — but the federal government, that most corrupt, tyrannical, trillion-dollar corporation in the country must be worshiped and expanded.
Grievance-mongering First Lady Michelle Obama’s insulting statement that she “wake[s] every morning in a house built by slaves” reflected a party built on slavery. The Jim Crow Laws, poll taxes and the Ku Klux Klan were all Democratic inventions. It is long overdue for a president so fond of apologizing for America while abroad to apologize to America here at home for his party’s shameful, racist history.
America has its own transgender political party. The Democrats rhetorically campaign and self-identify as Republican ideological moderates while governing post-election as the radical, far-left progressives they actually are.
STEVEN E. DONNELLY
Cowansville, Pa.
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