JFK Would Not Recognize His Party Today

by

       M. Richard Maxson

“Today’s Democratic Party — the home of Barack Obama, John Kerry, and Al Gore — wouldn’t give the time of day to a candidate like JFK.”

                                                            - Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby

      The reason is clear. The Democratic party of our fathers and grand-fathers no longer exists. It is evident by the number of declared Socialists in the party who are running for president. In our fathers time to say you were a Socialist or Communist would have meant the end of your life as you knew it. Your job, your friends, your family members would shun you and probably report you to government officials as an anti-American. Today, we are discussing Communist goal #15 as read into the Congressional record on Jan. 10, 1963 - “Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States,” seems to be inevitable. The latest poll of Democrats stated that 47% of all party members wanting Socialist Communism to replace our capitalistic form of government.

      Many saw this coming quite a long time ago. President Ronald Reagan stated: "I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The party left me." Actor and former president of the National Rifle Association Charlton Heston, who called himself a "Kennedy Democrat," but switched to the Republican Party after the 1960s.

      Although the Democrats still claim him as one of their greatest, privately his view of America does not fit their embrace of Socialism. Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby makes the case: “As Democrats maneuvering for the 2016 presidential race, there isn’t one who would think of disparaging John F. Kennedy’s stature as a Democratic Party hero. Yet it’s a pretty safe bet that none would dream of running on Kennedy’s approach to government or embrace his political beliefs.”

       Just as Presidents Reagan and Trump, the 35th president was an ardent tax-cutter who championed across-the-board, top-to-bottom reductions in personal and corporate tax rates. ‘I do not believe that Washington should do for the people what they can do for themselves through local and private effort,’ Kennedy bluntly avowed during the 1960 campaign.” Beginning with his inaugural address and the memorable peroration: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." That oft-repeated phrase was replaced in later textbooks by a recitation of

Kennedy's failures as president and what the government ought to do for us. That was done by fulfilling Communist goal #17, “Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.”

      President Kennedy also had a strong view on impeachment which is why, although the Democrats have not invoked any quotes from him during this process. They love to bathe in his aura, but they disagree with his ideals. In his book “Profiles In Courage” he praised courageous senator Edmund Gibson Ross of Kansas, unexpectedly responsible for the deciding vote that acquitted President Andrew Johnson in his Senate impeachment trial in 1868. Kennedy proclaimed Ross a hero who saved the presidency from congressional overreach. According President Kennedy, Ross “may well have preserved for ourselves and posterity constitutional government in the United States” by performing “what one historian has called ‘the most heroic act in American history, incomparably more difficult than any deed of valor upon the field of battle.”

      The parallels to 1865 are uncanny. Of the Senate taking up the articles against Johnson, Kennedy wrote that “as the trial progressed, it became increasingly apparent that the impatient opposition did not intend to give the president a fair trial on the formal issues upon which the impeachment was drawn, but intended instead to depose him from the White House on any grounds, real or imagined, for refusing to accept their policies.”

Years of certainty on the part of Democrats that Robert Mueller’s investigation would produce a rationale to impeach Trump reflects perfectly their intent “to depose him from the White House on any grounds, real or imagined” – and Trump’s dogged conservatism points to their motive being Trump’s “refusing to accept their policies.”

      Kennedy went on: “Telling evidence in the president’s favor was arbitrarily excluded”; he could have been talking about Democrats opposing hearing from Hunter and Joe Biden in the Senate trial. “Prejudgment on the part of most senators was brazenly announced” Treasury Secretary William Pitt Fessenden of Mainesaid, “The country has so bad an opinion of the president, which he fully deserves, that it expects his condemnation. The question to be decided is not whether Andrew Johnson is a proper person to fill the presidential office, nor whether it is fit that he should remain in it.” He warned of a future danger to the country, “Once set, the example of impeaching a president for what, when the excitement of the House shall have subsided, will be regarded as insufficient cause, no future president will be safe who happens to differ with a majority of the House and two-thirds of the Senate on any measure deemed by them important. What then becomes of the checks and balances of the Constitution so carefully devised and so vital to its perpetuity? They are all gone.”

      Sen. Joseph Smith Fowler of Tennessee, “at first thought the president impeachable,” according to JFK. “But the former Nashville professor was horrified by the mad passion of the House in rushing through the impeachment resolution by evidence against Johnson ‘based on falsehood’” – the comparison to Trump again being remarkable, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rushing the impeachment inquiry over the course of only 48 days late last year so as to get a House floor vote to impeach done before Christmas.

      A recent poll showed that almost 100% of all coverage of the impeachment was anti-Trump to which we again refer to the Communist goals for America; #20 - Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions and #21 - Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. 

 

      These are four of the forty-five Communist goals put into the Congressional record Goals on January 10, 1963 and demonstrate clearly how America has been and is being subverted and torn apart from the inside out. We have a plague on our nation. We are infected by the world-wide elite’s quest for Democratic Corporate Socialism. In America they have wrapped it up in red, white, and blue and their salesman is the 21^st century Democrat (Socialist) party. JFK would be appalled.