3 lies destroying the Democratic Party

OPINION:

Democrats are apparently in panic mode as they attempt to dig themselves out of the mass political grave they haphazardly dug for themselves over the past five years.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin recently delivered a blistering speech at the party’s summer meeting, encouraging fellow liberals to push back against President Trump. He proclaimed that he’s “sick and tired of this Democratic Party bringing a pencil to a knife fight” and encouraged progressives to take back the country.

Mr. Martin’s frustration is understandable, considering the Democratic Party is facing some of the worst polling and trend lines imaginable. 

A Wall Street Journal survey from July found Democrats grappling with their lowest approval ratings in three decades, as just 8% of voters saw the party “very favorably” and a whopping 63% felt it was out of step with Americans’ concerns. 

Plus, another report from The New York Times found that, in the 30 states with voter registration records by political party, the GOP was ahead in all of them between 2020 and 2024. 

Plainly stated: The situation for Democrats is bleak.

Obviously, Mr. Martin and his coalition are desperate for wins and likely see the most astute strategy as one that seeks to find a common enemy in Mr. Trump, painting him as a maniacal king bent on taking power away from the people.

But here’s the problem. While Mr. Martin is imploring fellow Democrats to “stand up and fight” and not to bring pencils to knife fights, he’s overlooking a glaring reality: the Democratic Party has made the very bed in which it’s now lying. 

Liberals have a truth problem, one that permeates the party’s core essence. The DNC has increasingly rejected God, embraced a self-obsessed relativism and has evaded reality in both trivial and monumental matters. 

If the DNC is looking for a blueprint forward, it has nothing to do with pencils and swords and everything to do with a turn back to truth and decency at every level.

First, let’s start with liberals’ increased rejection of eternal truth. The move away from reliance and belief in God has created a systematic dysfunction that pervades almost every page of the DNC’s official platform and many of its policy proclivities. 

According to the Pew Research Center, 40% of Democrats and those who lean Democratic are religiously unaffiliated compared to just 20% of their Republican counterparts — and the disparity only seems to be growing. 

The Bible is clear on where knowledge begins. Proverbs 9:10 (NIV) reads, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” When a collective of people rejects God and turns from truth, moral chaos follows — and that’s what we’ve seen in liberal policymaking. 

From the gender wars to abortion and the obsessive misunderstanding of the “separation of church and state,” the Democratic Party has moved far beyond wisdom and knowledge and into the realm of self-obsession.

And that brings us to our second point: relativism. In abandoning biblical morals, the Democratic Party has aligned itself with the belief that the human being is the ultimate arbiter of truth and rightness. Whatever feels or seems right to oneself becomes the guiding principle. 

The problem? Relativism is incompatible with reality. At some point, issues such as transgender individuals competing in sports and using preferred restrooms force people to make a decision: Can we really abide in these lies masquerading as truth, all for the sake of relativistic inclinations? 

The DNC and its adherents have created numerous crises in this arena, forcing the public to realize just how unhinged these demands have become from the truth.

Finally, Democrats have struggled with baseline honesty on matters of political importance. The handling of the COVID-19 pandemic raised many questions, yet some liberals simply wouldn’t allow free speech and expression. Thus, people were forced into silence if they merely posed curiosities about the virus’ origins or the government’s response.

But it was President Biden’s health, readiness and well-being that perhaps most shocked voters. While citizens were seeing firsthand a leader who seemed to be struggling, the Democratic elite perpetuated the lie that Mr. Biden was perfectly fine and that Americans’ eyes, ears and senses were deceiving them.

See, all of these problems boil down to eternal and practical truths. Neither party is perfect, but one has struggled more recently with aligning itself to reality, and theological dysfunction has spilled over into the political and policymaking realm. 

The result is an American populace that now questions the Democratic Party’s ability to govern. The best path forward is for liberals to turn back to God, cling to reality and simply commit to telling the truth. 

Sadly, all signs right now point to a doubling down that could lead to further dysfunction and distrust.

• Billy Hallowell is a digital TV host and interviewer for Faithwire and CBN News and the co-host of CBN’s “Quick Start Podcast.” Mr. Hallowell is the author of four books.