The Democrat Convention last week demonstrated for all the world to see that the memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy has been totally expunged from the addled brains of the Party elite, both the aging boomers and the drug-infested younger generation. There was nothing of the great infrastructure programs of FDR, who created the electrified nation capable of providing the “arsenal of democracy” to defeat fascism. Nor was there even a hint of the inspiration of JFK’s declaration that “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.” Instead of that, the disintegrating Democrat Party presented a racist portrait of “identity politics.”
As Kamala Harris put it — we are giving people the chance to vote for people who “look like them.” Or as Manichean Joe put it, vote for me because: “I will be an ally of the light, not of the darkness.”
Nancy Pelosi today, in a state of high anxiety, ranted to the media that President Donald Trump and his supporters in the Congress are “enemies of the state...domestic enemies” who are seeking to “scare people from voting,” and to “welcome Russian intervention into our election by letting Putin decide who will be president instead of the American people.”
To the credit of the Republican Party, the first night of their Convention countered the Democrats’ racist “identity politics” with optimism and opportunity. A number of Black elected officials and personalities pointed to President Trump’s concern for the most fundamental of the human rights denied to the minorities in the United States — what FDR called the “freedom from want.” Sen. Tim Scott from South Carolina closed the Convention, discussing the “Opportunity Zones” which he and the President had launched in the inner cities of America, aimed at creating jobs and job training for the “forgotten men and women” of the nation. He spoke of the “evolution of the Southern heart,” pointing to his election victory over the son of a notorious racist, noting that his Grandfather, who dropped out of school in the third grade to pick cotton, lived to see his Grandson become the first Black man to be elected to Congress and then to the Senate from South Carolina. Another Black elected official, State Representative Vernon Jones, a Democrat from Georgia, said that the Democrat Party “didn’t want Black people to leave the plantation,” and praised Trump for providing funding for the historically Black colleges, and for implementing criminal justice reform, and for defending the police against the anarchy on the streets.
Matt Gaetz, a Repunblican from Florida, noted that Donald Trump is the first President since Ronald Reagan who did not start a war.
But the Republicans have yet to grasp the measures required to reverse the existential threat now facing the nation and the world, which the LaRouche movement presented in the program “The LaRouche Plan To Reopen the U.S. Economy: The World Needs 1.5 Billion New, Productive Jobs” (https://larouchepub.com/special_report/2020/larouche-plan-for-1500000000-jobs.pdf).
Ironically, President Trump has himself, at one time or another, addressed several of the key points in that program. He tried to end the “endless wars,” while trying to build friendship and cooperation with Russia and China. But it was not only the Democrats who cooperated with British intelligence in “Russiagate,” and now “Chinagate,” to stop any U.S. friendship with Russia or China — the Republican circles surrounding President Trump are equally intent on breaking that effort, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the lead, demonizing both Russia and China, driving the world to the brink of war.
Trump must take a lesson from Ronald Reagan, who broke the British Empire’s controlled environment of the imperial division of the world, East vs West, by working with Lyndon LaRouche, adopting LaRouche’s proposal to cooperate with the Russians (then the Soviet Union) on building a space-based defense against nuclear weapons, to “make nuclear weapons obsolete,” as Reagan put it in his famous March 23, 1983 television address to the nation. Were President Trump to follow that example, to accept the LaRouche plan for the leaders of the U.S., Russia, China and India to meet, to stand up against the British Empire’s “divide and conquer” and address the multiple threats to civilization facing mankind today, these problems could be resolved. Putin has proposed a variation on LaRouche’s “Four Power” proposal, promoting a Summit of the five Permanent Members of the UN Security, which has been accepted by all five leaders, but without a certain date.
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