JFK - A Twenty-First Century Republican?

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       M. Richard Maxson

       Sixty-six years ago, when John F. Kennedy was elected as our 35th president of the United States, he commanded a Democratic Party that believed in capitalism -- including tax cuts to generate economic growth; a vigorous military that could be used to oppose Communist expansionism; and a patriotism in which the United States proudly thumped its chest about our accomplishments, victories and generosity.

       Now things are indeed radically changed. Today’s Democratic Party would be unrecognizable to JFK.

· Would Kennedy possibly believe that more Iowa Democrats in 2016 identify with “socialism” than with “capitalism?”

· Would he have ever believed that 43 percent of Iowa’s Democratic caucus-goers self-identified as “Socialist?”

      Today’s Democratic Party — the home of Barack Obama, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Al Gore — wouldn’t give the time of day to a candidate like JFK. The reason is that today’s party has moved far to the left towards Communist Socialism while the Republican party has maintained the Constitutional principals that John Kennedy so embraced. Today JFK would be a solid Republican.

       His views on government, the economy, and the real dangers to the U.S. is why he was assassinated. He went against the grain, against the rising tide of Progressivism that is backed by the unseen men in the shadows that attempt to make the decisions for mankind to gain power and profit and control of the populace. The enemies who are at war with us today are the same ones who killed our duly elected President. That is when the coup took place and has been in effect ever since. It was the end of the old Democratic party and perhaps the old Republic.

“For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.” – John F. Kennedy

       In that attempt to do what he could to stop the march towards Socialist Progressivism led by the military-industrials.

• He fired the CIA chief, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for his approval of the Northwoods papers suggesting the false flag to fly a plane into a tall
  
  building and blame it on the Cubans at the time.
  
• He signed an EO turning control of our currency and credit over to the US treasury, and was drafting legislation to put us back on the gold standard, and had already issued silver certificates in the $1 bills
• He championed across-the-board, top-to-bottom reductions in personal and corporate tax rates, slashed tariffs to promote free trade, and even spoke out against the ‘confiscatory’ property taxes being levied in too many cities. 
   

      Kennedy’s across the board tax cut, like Reagan’s and like Bush’s, was a perfect example of pro-growth economics in action. Allow people to keep more of their money. Additionally, Kennedy saw to it that

capital gains tax rates be slashed, along with corporate tax rates. He sought to strengthen, and expand, the prosperity of the private sector in an effort to fully fund the government infrastrusture projects that would soon follow. He knew that to pay for bridges, roadways, and the space program, the economy would need to grow faster than government spending. The simple fact that Kennedy planned on increasing government spending after he increased revenues through rate cuts,,,,in contrast to today’s liberal politicians, and Keynesian economists, he is certainly a representative sample of traditional pro-growth policies, and a haven of conservative thought in a decidedly Progressive chapter of American history. Kennedy’s ambitious change to the tax code was textbook “pro-growth” policies that have since been advocated by Milton Friedman, Ludwig van Misses, and other conservative minded folks.

      Now does that sound like the Party of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Harry Reid? Does that sound like the party that passed the largest tax increase in American history (The Affordable Care Act) and Obama’s call for increased taxes on the wealthy, increased business regulation, and increased tax burdens on particular industries? Kennedy’s short time in office produced a wealth of economic lessons for future generations. None of which is currently being advocated by today’s Democrat Party.

       That is also the theme of Ira Stoll’s book “JFK, Conservative”: “Now Ira Stoll comes along to make the startling case that JFK was not a liberal at all, but in reality a conservative who (had he lived) might have endorsed Ronald Reagan for president and today might be comfortably at home writing editorials for National Review.” Stoll…makes a strong case that conservatives should stake a claim to President Kennedy as one of their own…“JFK appears more conservative to us today than he appeared to his contemporaries because liberalism moved so far to the left in the years after he was killed.”

- National Review

      Today's Progressives should head the words of the last "real" Constitutional Democrat, JFK:

"Neither the fanatics nor the faint-hearted are needed. And our duty as a Party is not to our Party alone, but to the nation, and, indeed, to all mankind. Our duty is not merely the preservation of political power but the preservation of peace and freedom. So let us not be petty when our cause is so great. Let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our Nation's future is at stake. Let us stand together with renewed confidence in our cause -- united in our heritage of the past and our hopes for the future -- and determined that this land we love shall lead all mankind into new frontiers of peace and abundance."

      By his words we can see how far Progressive Democratic-Socialism has taken his party away from Americanism, away from the Founding Fathers Constitution.