The Democratic Party is the Anti-values, Counterculture Party

George C. Landrith

The Democratic Party has become the anti-values, counterculture party. That does not mean all Democrats lack values. A number of my friends who consider themselves Democrats are strongly moral people. They are offended by the vulgarity that has become commonplace in Hollywood. Their boys are Eagle Scouts. They believe marriage is between a man and a woman. They are active in their church and find no offense in the Pledge of Allegiance. So if the Democrats I know are not anti-values people, how I can say the Democratic Party is the anti-values party?

Because the party does not represent mainstream Democrats. Here’s the proof:

Most Americans would be shocked if not angered by an evening of Hollywood celebrities liberally using profanity and the F-word and joking about women’s body parts while angrily denouncing the President of the United States – calling him a murdering thug and a Nazi. But for the Democratic Party, it is a presidential fundraiser. But it gets worse; Kerry endorsed it all saying the profane celebrities represented “the heart and soul of America.”

Most Americans know Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are shallow race-baiters who demagogue race issues for personal profit. Yet these racial demagogues are given a place of respect and prominence in the Democratic Party and treated as if they were serious political leaders.

To most Americans, Eminem is a grotesquely vulgar rapper who makes his living selling lewd filth and violence to teenagers. But to the Democrat’s presidential candidate, Eminem is an enlightened and praiseworthy artist whose anti-Bush music video deserved endorsement.

Most Americans now know Michael Moore as a dishonest, Anti-American propagandist who portrays Americans as stupid and our soldiers as drunken teenagers lusting for blood and violence. Moore claims there is no terrorist threat and lies as easily and freely as terrorists kill. Yet, at the Democratic Convention, Moore was given a place of honor – sitting with former President Jimmy Carter. The head of the Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe, endorsed Moore’s absurd conspiracy theories and lies.

Most Americans enjoy watching a good movie and even hearing about the celebrities who star in them. But Americans grow weary of ignorant and uninformed Hollywood stars criticizing America, mocking its leaders, and praising murderous foreign dictators. That Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and John Kerry win enthusiastic praise from the Hollywood left underscores that the Democratic Party shares Hollywood’s counterculture values.

Most Americans believe the Boy Scouts of America is a good organization and are proud to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Yet liberal judges appointed by Democrats attack the Boy Scouts and the Pledge as if they pose some grave danger to America. Meanwhile Democratic Senators oppose and obstruct the confirmation of qualified mainstream judges who were appointed to stop this judicial foolishness.


To the vast majority of Americans, even those who generally support abortion as a right, partial-birth abortion is simply wrong. Yet John Kerry and most Senate Democrats vote repeatedly to protect the practice of aborting a healthy, viable baby in the final weeks, days or minutes of pregnancy.

Most Americans believe homosexuals should receive the same respect as any other American. But most Americans also believe in the time-tested principle that marriage is between a man and a woman. Despite Kerry’s attempt to obfuscate his views, we now know advisors suggested Kerry endorse state initiatives defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Kerry refused – despite claiming to believe states should decide this issue. No one took Kerry seriously, nor should they have. It is the Democrats and their judges who have pushed the radical homosexual agenda.

Most Americans view our armed forces as heroes and patriots who are more important to protecting our freedom than reporters, lawyers or protestors. Yet, many Democratic leaders hold the military in low regard. Gore’s campaign devised a strategy to prevent military votes from being counted. In 2004, the Democratic Party delayed absentee ballots in several key battleground states to make military votes difficult to count. Clinton “loathed” the military and his staff disrespected those in uniform. Kerry so hated America or the military, he falsely accused America’s fighting men in Vietnam of widespread and systematic atrocities and war crimes. Not one of Kerry’s claims could be substantiated. Kerry and his allies even coached war protestors, who never served in Vietnam, to fabricate false “eye witness accounts” of atrocities. Little wonder the military votes overwhelmingly for the other party.

Thus, the question should not be why is the Democratic Party viewed as the anti-values party. The answer is rather obvious. The better question is why do so many Americans still consider themselves Democrats when the party assails and mocks their values?

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Mr. Landrith is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was Business Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law and Politics. He had a successful law practice in business and litigation. In 1994 and 1996, Mr. Landrith was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's Fifth Congressional District. He served on the Albemarle County School Board. Mr. Landrith is an adjunct professor at the George Mason School of Law. He is recognized as an authority on constitutional law and jurisprudence, federalism, global warming, and property rights.

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