9 INSANE Things In The New Democratic Party Platform 

9 INSANE Things In The New Democratic Party Platform

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 BEN SHAPIRO

JUNE 27, 2016

The Democratic National Committee has released excerpts from its new platform – and it’s even more insanely extreme than the old platform. More so, as we’ll see. Here are the top nine lowlights from the party of Bernie Sanders:

1. Prosecute People Who Disagree With The Theory of Anthropogenic Climate Change. According to the platform, it’s not enough to back climate change legislation – those who donate to groups like the Heartland Institute that make the case that fossil fuels are not the chief contributors to climate change must be actively prosecuted:

Another joint proposal calling on the Department of Justice to investigate alleged corporate fraud on the part of fossil fuel companies who have reportedly misled shareholders and the public on the scientific reality of climate change was also adopted by unanimous consent.

2. Embrace Of $15 Minimum Wage. The left’s obsession with the number “15” comes to a head in this latest proposal. They can’t explain just why $15 per hour should be the minimum wage – why should Kansas companies pay the same minimum wage as Seattle ones? – but they’re all for it, no matter how many jobs they kill:

Acknowledging that the current minimum wage is a starvation wage, the platform draft already included language declaring that Americans should earn at least $15 an hour, that the minimum wage should be raised and indexed, and that all workers have the right to form and join a union.  It also includes a call to end sub-minimum wage for tipped workers and people with disabilities.

Note the addition here about tipped workers – they want to eliminate tips for waiters and waitresses, many of whom formally work for less than minimum wage but earn far more with tips.

3. Abolishing The Death Penalty. This is the first time the Democrats have ever explicitly called for abolishing the death penalty, although they’ve been moving toward this morally nonsensical position for quite a while. They’re all for the death penalty for unborn babies, however…

4. Abortion For Everybody On Earth, And You Pay. According to the platform:

The platform also vows to oppose, and seek to overturn, all federal and state laws that impede a woman’s access to abortion, including by repealing the Hyde Amendment.  It also strongly supports the repeal of harmful restrictions that obstruct women’s access to healthcare around the world, including the Global Gag Rule and the Helms Amendment, which bars US assistance to other countries that provide safe, legal, abortion.

The Hyde Amendment bars federal taxpayer funding for abortion. So you get to pay for everybody else’s abortion. They wantall restrictions on abortion overturned, including partial birth abortion. They want American taxpayers to foot the bill for abortion overseas.

5. Protectionism Is Back! Thanks to Bernie Sanders, the Democrats now embrace trade protectionism to “protect worker’s rights” against the scourge of “corporate profits.” That will only cost a few million jobs.

6. Increase Entitlement Programs To Bankrupt The Country. 2011 marked the first year on record where Social Security took in less money than it paid out, but the Democrats aim to make that permanent:

The Democratic Platform makes clear that not only will Democrats fight every effort to cut, privatize, or weaken Social Security, but we will in fact expand it while requiring those at the top to pay more. And pursuant to an amendment crafted by members McKibben and Tanden, the Committee added language that said we would we would achieve this goal by taxing some of the income of people above $250,000.

Taxes at this level simply won’t cover this burden. The math doesn’t add up.

7. Amnesty For Virtually All. The new Democratic platform adds several provisions designed to keep illegal immigrants in America at all costs: “keeping families together, ending family detention, closing private detention centers, and guaranteeing legal counsel for all unaccompanied minors in immigration proceedings.” In other words, release everybody into the wind -- the vast majority of detainees are in private detention centers -- and force ICE to find attorneys for everyone who they want to deport. This means everybody gets to stay, folks.

8. Nationalized Healthcare. Remember when the left said it was racist to accuse the Obama administration of aiming for government-run healthcare? Now they’re calling for it openly: they want “access to public coverage through Medicare or a public option.” This is called nationalized health care, given that subsidized medical programs will always be cheaper than private programs and will never go bankrupt, since they can actively confiscate wealth from citizens to pay for their deficits.

9. Increasing Crime. The left’s surrender to Black Lives Matter is complete:

The current draft calls for ending the era of mass incarceration, shutting down private prisons, ending racial profiling, reforming the grand jury process, investing in re-entry programs, banning the box to help give people a second chance and prioritizing treatment over incarceration for individuals suffering addiction.  The Committee also voted unanimously to recognize the role activists and recent movements have played in putting these issues front and center in the national conversation, as they should be.

There is no era of “mass incarceration.” There are criminals who have committed crimes going to prison. Grand juries aren’t the problem in America – criminals are. Racial profiling has been illegal across the country for years, but behavioral profiling certainly is not. And forcing private businesses not to ask about prior crimes is ridiculous.

The DNC has moved further to the left. Of course. And they won't stop that gradual slide into madness any time soon. After all, with the help of a compliant media, they're winning.