Disillusioned Democrats Revolt

By

       M. Richard Maxson

      The Day when Rep. John Olumba of Detroit, defected from the Democrat party he expressed utter dismay that his former party actual prevents the poor and blacks "from standing on their own two feet" by sending government-funded social workers to "coddle" and keep down "poor little black kids" rather than allowing them to rise above their circumstances. He said it is nearly impossible to rise when "someone else's well being is tied to your misery," vis-a-vis social worker jobs and Democrat votes. He said the Democrat Party's "paternal attitude" toward those in need is "conjured up" and noted that all the government-funded social workers "under the guise of the name Democrat" reaped "no positive change in all the years" he'd been alive." Those are strong words from an Urban, African-American Democrat.

      He asked his fellow African-Americans to throw off the shackles of the Democratic party and look elsewhere. He then praised the not-so-perfect Republican Party, which has identity struggles of its own but at least represents the goodness that once made America great -- holding fast to the now-dwindling freedoms we cherish. His message to the Grand Old Party, "you freed the slaves once and you'll do it again."

      Democrats have long since realized that people who

are poor and dependent on the government will vote for them, even if it is their liberal policies that created the poverty and dependency. That's why every ghetto in America is controlled lock, stock, and barrel by liberal Democrats and unfortunately, so many of them are destitute.

      Democrats talk about "change," but they're the party of stagnation. The two terms of Barrack Obama have more than proven that. African-Americans, who expected great things from one of their own, were left worse off than before. It's because Democratic welfare policies keep the poor mired in poverty, crush the middle class and keep them from becoming wealthy, while doing little to impact the richest Americans unless you are a Socialist Billionaire like Warren Buffet or George Soros.

Here are comments from other defectors of the Democratic (now Socialist) party.

• I was raised as a Democrat. A lifelong FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) Democrat and therefore am anything other than prejudiced against the Democratic Party. I was taught to stand up for the little guy, for working families and the middle class and that bigger government was the best way to do that. As I got older, I no longer believed in their ideas. Even worse, I had concluded that liberals aren’t just wrong. All too often they are world-class liars. They talk a great game about helping the most vulnerable, with ideas that feel good and fashionable. The problem is their ideas don’t work, and often hurt the exact people they claim to help.

• I was raised in Missouri as a Democrat. I was taught that Harry Truman was the greatest president ever because he was strong, stood up to the Communists. I believe that the government should work with the working class to better it's citizens and the country. I am committed to that principle today more than ever. And if I thought the Democratic Party had the right ideas to do that, I’d still be one of them. But they don’t.

• I was a Democrat but, that Party died when Bill Clinton became President and undid FDR’s regulations on the megabanks and FDR’s AFDC income program for children in poor families, and when Clinton replaced that with restoration of Wall Street’s control over America. He set us up for the big recession with his policies.

• I became a conservative because I believe that caring for people means more than just spending taxpayer money; it means delivering results. It means respecting and challenging our citizens, telling them what they need to hear, not simply what they want to hear. They say everyone is born a Democrat, until they grow up. I grew up.