Why would Democrats remain loyal to their party? RFK Jr. left the Democratic Party last October because, in his own words, “… it had departed so dramatically from the core values I grew up with. It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big AG and Big Money. … It abandoned democracy by cancelling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president. … I’m sorry to say that while democracy may still be alive at the grassroots, it has become little more than a slogan for our political institutions, our media and our government, and most sadly of all, the Democratic Party.”
Kennedy went on to condemn the party for its suppression and censorship of free speech, pointing out that federal Judge Terry Doughty called Biden’s White House censorship project “the most egregious violation of the First Amendment in the history of the United States of America.” Judge Doughty detailed how “37 hours after he took the oath of office swearing to uphold the Constitution, President Biden’s White House opened up a portal and invited the CIA, FBI, CISA, DHS, IRS and other agencies to censor … political dissidents.”
Democrat leaders have promoted false narratives and censorship by social media. Witness Mark Zuckerberg’s revelation that the Biden White House pressured Facebook to censor the New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop two weeks prior to the 2020 presidential election; subsequent polls revealed that 16% of people who voted for Biden said that they would have voted differently had they been properly informed.
Today’s Democratic Party is the party of election interference and election fraud. Their elected officials in the Congress have consistently and unanimously rejected measures such as voter-ID requirement and signature verification. They have enlisted hundreds of lawyers and filed hundreds of lawsuits to fight state efforts to restore election integrity and to change election procedures to favor Democrat candidates. In Democrat-controlled states, they have violated laws in order to greatly outnumber Republican poll watchers. They have engaged in aggressive ballot harvesting and ballot box stuffing.
As in 2020, Democrats’ 2024 presidential election campaign is being managed to prevent voters from getting accurate information about the positions and policies of their candidate. And now they are aggressively issuing IDs to illegals and registering them to vote, even using federal employees on paid leave to do it. All of this is fraudulent and undemocratic. Most is illegal as well.
And there’s more. The Democrats’ corrupt relationship with the teachers’ unions has destroyed public education and turned K-12 schools into indoctrination mills for the left. The party has promoted policies that undermine law enforcement and release criminals onto our streets. The party opposes people of faith and embraces abortion without limitation up to the moment of birth. Its practice of identity politics is racist on its face, pitting one group against another. And it has become increasingly evident that the Democratic Party is at the epicenter of anti-Semitism in the country.
The Democratic Party is no longer the party of JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King. Quoting RFK Jr. again: In the past, his former party “stood against authoritarianism, against censorship and against colonialism, imperialism and unjust wars. … [It was] the party of democracy.” Instead, the Democratic Party now embraces far-left, socialist values and policies. It is anti-democratic and anti-American. Why would any Democrat remain loyal to this party? Many are choosing not to and are following RFK Jr.’s courageous example.
David J. Carey is a retired business executive, consultant, veteran and private investor who lives in the Rogue Valley.