Would There be Room for JFK in Todays Democrat Party?
By: Ed Farnan | Published Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 10:45 AM | Updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 10:45 AM
Recent polls show there is a strong backlash building against the Occupy Movements springing up around the country. One poll showed 64% of the American public disapprove of the movement and ominously for Democrats, the public is linking the OWS movement to the Democrat Party.
Probably what disturbed many Americans about this movement, besides turning our cities into squalid campsites, was the outward show of support for communism. Militants in the streets demanding "rights" while wearing Che Gueverra T shirts and communist party emblems, openly and brazenly.
The fact that President Obama and Nancy Pelosi have tacitly endorsed this movement at the same time it has been endorsed by the American Nazi Party, the Communist Party and former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, creates a sort of surreal group of strange bedfellows.
I feel like a spectator to a tragic car crash when I watch these protests start to turn militant and violent. I don't want to look, but can't help see how our culture seems to be disintegrating in some of our cities. It looks as if there is a concerted effort to bring mob rule to the forefront, rather than the rule of law. Why would our nations leaders endorse a tactic which is against the grain of working within the system, a system they themselves are a key part of? A system which produced them?
If John Kennedy were around today would he be a member of the Democrat Party? After all his motto was "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country." Even his "Rising tide will lift all boats" showed his laissez faire attitude of unleash the private sector and it will bring forth prosperity to everyone. Of course one of the first moves he made as president was to lower the tax rates to help spur private sector prosperity.
Does any of this strategy and thinking resemble todays entitlement mentality embraced by todays Democrat party? If you look at it from this perspective, John Kennedy probably would have been a founding member of the American Tea Party.
But I can't help but wonder what John Kennedy would think today if he were around. He was probably the worst enemy the Communist Party every had, he hated communism and everything it stood for. He most definitely would be astonished to see them marching in the streets proudly wearing their colors.
Of course President Kennedy risked his life fighting a war which eventually crushed the Nazi's and he most certainly would not have tolerated the site of the Swastika being associated with anything American.
President Kennedy was also a strong champion of civil rights and didn't tolerate for a minute racism, or any type of intolerance against others, so he most certainly would be aghast at seeing mobs knotting up our cities, that were endorsed by a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.
Sure times have changed from the 60's when President Kennedy was here, but the aforementioned groups goals and aims have not and John Kennedy, in his elderly state, would be standing up and speaking out about this.
Makes you wonder if the conservative JFK would be even welcome in today's Democrat Party?
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.pattbaa | Feb 29, 2012, 04:34 PM EST
Three members of the United States House of Representative were John Kennedy , Richard Nixon , and Helen Gagahan Douglas. Douglas was married to Hollywood actor Melyvn Douglas ( true name Hesselberg) and she was so extreme in her left-wing posture that even fellow Democrats weree appalled. She's best described as the antithesis of Ronald Reagan because of her benign attitude toward the Soviet Union.-- In the 1950 election for the Senate between Nixon and Douglas , Joseph Kennedy contributed money to Nixon's campaign , and after Nixon was elected , now Senator John Kennedy publicly expressed his happiness in Nixon's victory.
Ratslayer | Nov 25, 2011, 04:43 PM EST
Hey Maloney, I'm MOCKING you. But I'll stop. It's not nice to pick on mentally challenged tea baggers.
newnation | Nov 25, 2011, 02:59 PM EST
how insightful of you monso
Monsoonman | Nov 24, 2011, 01:16 PM EST
Careful when you point your finger, because you have 3 pointing back at yourself..Jez sayin' In case yer axin'
newnation | Nov 24, 2011, 12:12 PM EST
wow everyone on here is dumb. get down too some real issues and stock bickering bout nothing, or go ahead and have civil war number 2, otherwise shut the hell up plz!!
Monsoonman | Nov 24, 2011, 12:12 PM EST
So true Phlutie: The middle is eroding because there is no room for them in the far left democrat party. This is not the democrat party of our forefather/mothers & definitely NOT the unions of our forefathers/Mothers.
PhlutiePhan | Nov 24, 2011, 11:23 AM EST
Here in St. Louis, we have a mayor who somewhat parallels JFK. He is Maronite Catholic like Danny and Marlo Thomas as well as Doug Flutie. He is trying to rebuild a dying city. He has made great strides but liberal forces (read radical black as well as radical feminists) are maneuvering to take over the political structure. At one time, the political establishment was controlled by the mafia both Italian and Lebanese. Now, there is a strong gang structure which, according to Fox 2 KTVI, has drug connections for distribution from Mexico. He is middle-of-the-road like Jerry Litton from Kansas City who died in a tragic plane crash in 1976 with connections to Stuart Symington who served in the JFK cabinet. The middle is dying and the only alternative for sane Americans is the Republican party as right wing as it is.
maloney | Nov 23, 2011, 11:55 PM EST
I call em as I see em ratboy. I noticed you didn't say I was wrong, and I wasn't.
Monsoonman | Nov 23, 2011, 08:01 PM EST
Free as defined in "Somebody else is paying for my stuff"
McNamara31 | Nov 23, 2011, 07:20 PM EST
Joxbuk1979 ..Agreed
Ratslayer | Nov 23, 2011, 01:07 PM EST
Come on Maloney, you can do better than that (or maybe you can't??!) -- Team Gobshite is counting on you! LOL!!
maloney | Nov 22, 2011, 08:27 PM EST
You are a full blown IDIOT ratboy. Along with being an uneducated liar.
Monsoonman | Nov 22, 2011, 06:29 PM EST
You are so eloquent ratslayer.
Ratslayer | Nov 22, 2011, 06:02 PM EST
Dear Seamus, good come back! Wow, yer so clever. A mental giant among peons ... Seriously, right-wingers are so bereft for words when confronted with facts, science and logic. I'll say it again and again: Republicans are no more than political terrorists, enemies of reason and science, enemies of moderation, tolerance and sanity. Republicans are destroyers, not builders. They are small thinkers. Pizza's a vegetable but screw any new jobs plan! They are the enemies of the working/middle classes because, like the psychopaths that they are, they don't care about human suffering, especially among our most vulnerable and helpless. Satan couldn't find better helpers.
SarahOz | Nov 22, 2011, 04:54 AM EST
President Kennedy said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." With the present US Congress, where money is more influential than democracy, resulting in our current plutocracy, where the poor and middle class are increasingly losing power, President Kennedy would be fighting for change. He fought for Social Security and Medicare. He fought to help the disadvantaged, not take more and more away from them. And while he believed in a strong defense, he would be shocked to see that today we spend more on our military than does the entire rest of the world combined.
SeamusRua | Nov 21, 2011, 11:13 PM EST
Dear Ratslayer: Those rat bites seem to be festering. Might be time to learn about antibiotics.
Ratslayer | Nov 21, 2011, 02:03 PM EST
Sorry, Mr. Lizard Brain, but JFK would never have had anything to do with crazy conservatives/GOP. See, in addition to his intellect and love of SCIENCE/FACTS, JFK had a big HEART -- something that right-wing/tea-bagger cranks sorely lack. JFK (and Jesus too) today would have been appauled at the GOP's relentless attacks on the working/middle classes, the poor, the sick, the elderly while fighting to enrich the rich! Also, JFK would be sick with disgust that some misinformed and paranoid right-wing shumck with a OWS-R-Commies fetish would try to claim him as a member of Team Nutbag!
maloney | Nov 20, 2011, 04:10 PM EST
JFK would have no part in todays liberal fiasco. He had half a brain unlike the left of today.
Monsoonman | Nov 20, 2011, 12:05 PM EST
Really joxbuck and which prosperous economic model of a european country would that perspective be coming from?
Monsoonman | Nov 20, 2011, 11:39 AM EST
It seems the rabble are inspired by community organizers such obama, demanding rights from "the man", rather than the responsibilities of doing hard work to become self sufficient. Did you really think you would get a real job with a degree in "womens studies" or "dance". Sorry if the education system said you could get a real job with degrees like that. Occupy the bloated education industry who faked you with huge tuition for a worthless degree. Occupy the whitehouse for being utterly corrupt. Occupy congress for selling you out to special interests.
Joxbuk1979 | Nov 20, 2011, 11:26 AM EST
From an Irish and European perspective a nation as rich as America that fails to provide free health care to all its citizens cannot be described as civilised.
Monsoonman | Nov 20, 2011, 11:09 AM EST
If OWS represents main stream America...then God help us all, we are doomed.
hollabackgurl | Nov 20, 2011, 09:15 AM EST
There isn't even room for Jesus in today's GOP. You've allowed the Evangelical's to set the agenda for the party for the last 40 years. And all they care about are guns and gays.
OleSarge | Nov 20, 2011, 06:41 AM EST
There is no room for a John Kennedy in today's Democratic Party. He was a man of the center. Today a rabble monger like Jessie Jackson is considered from the center. The Democratic rush for power has alienated the party from mainstream America.
AnPiobaire | Nov 20, 2011, 06:01 AM EST
So stupid to imagine that a 2012 version of JFK's towering intellect would be mired in a 40's, 50''s early 60's Cold War mentality! Insane to imagine he would be attracted to the current version of the GOP, which elevates willful ignorance to a virtue!
irismonkey48 | Nov 20, 2011, 12:02 AM EST
In the first place, the Occupy movement is very popular and is in fact growing. There are people of all persuasions,and many different beliefs. They are unified by the same thing. Wanting Wall Street, the banks that were too big to fail etc to be held accountable and regulations that were taken away to be put back. The Occupiers have kept the parks clean in spite of what some media would like us to believe. JFK would have marched with them. Shame on you for such a bogus article based on incomplete data and biased assumptions.
Monsoonman | Nov 19, 2011, 06:48 PM EST
Bill clinton wouldn't make it in todays dem party? Think again, he would be re-elected by a landslide.
prc1234 | Nov 19, 2011, 03:46 PM EST
I know it's been said already, but it warrants mention again: The best way to detect a person who is full emerged in the right-wing bubble is if that person refers to the Democratic Party as the "Democrat Party". Either you're stupid, or you are willfully referring to the party by a name that is wrong. Either way you shouldn't be taken seriously. Good day.
DrTrelawney | Nov 19, 2011, 09:56 AM EST
Kennedy would never be able to secure the Democrat Party nomination for President today. But that's nothing to do with politics. In the current climate, they could not pick somebody who shagged every passing girl scout and table leg. Clinton would never make it today either.
hollabackgurl | Nov 19, 2011, 08:53 AM EST
It's the Democratic Party, not the Democrat Party. If you're already that partisan and insulting people will discount all you say.
BishopSean | Nov 18, 2011, 07:29 PM EST
A well-done article by Mr. Farnan. We need more like this.