Thursday, March 28, 2024

Why Democrats’ New “Morality” Messaging Will Fail

This article was originally posted at Townhall.

If you’ve been paying attentionto the rhetoric coming from elected Democrats and progressive activists inrecent weeks, you’ve probably noticed a calculated effort to frame issues inthe vein of morality. 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared to reporters that building a border wall would be an “immorality.” Abortion activist Amelia Bonow told children in a viral video that aborting her baby was “part of God’s plan.” Even social media superstar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — who apparently works part-time as a Member of Congress — clumsily invoked morality to excuse her aversion to the truth, telling Anderson Cooper that it’s more important to be “morally right” than factually accurate.

All of this is, of course, adeliberate messaging tactic. In 2016, the Democrats were absolutely walloped byRepublicans at the polls. Eighty-one percent of Evangelicals voted for Trump,and even Catholics, a constituency that Obama won twice, voted 52 percent to 45percent in favor of Trump. In light of those lopsided numbers, someprogressives are opportunistically trying to win back a share of the Christianvoters they’ve lost by claiming the mantle of morality for themselves, howevercontrived and unbiblical a moral framework it may be.

Conservatives must forcefullyreject this claim from the Left. The notion that the Democratic Party — animmoral, extreme, anti-Christian party with a centuries-long history of bigotry— has any sort of monopoly on morality is ridiculous and, frankly, offensive.Let’s not forget: this is the party that supported slavery and segregation,opposed women’s suffrage, and justified putting Asian-Americans inconcentration camps. 

Moreover, this is the party thatstill — despite the overwhelming testimony of both science and personalexperience — supports killing unborn babies up to the moment of birth, on thebasis that they are not fully human persons. Thanks to Democrat obstinance, theUnited States is one of just seven countries in the world that allows abortionafter 20 weeks, putting us in the company of serial human rights abusers likeNorth Korea.

This is the party that believes parents have a rightto abort babies with a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, shamefullyportraying children with Down syndrome as some sort of burden to society whenthey are anything but.

This is the party that puts the vast majority ofPlanned Parenthood clinics in urban areas where they abort predominantlyminority children and hail this as some sort of victory for racial justice.

This is the party that believes health care workersshould be legally required to perform abortions even if the taking of aninnocent life violates their conscience.

This is the party that is actively attempting to sneakradical pro-abortion language into any bill that reopens the government,language that would allow for taxpayer funding for abortion both domesticallyand abroad, while hundreds of thousands of pro-life Americans attend the Marchfor Life in Washington, D.C.

This is the party that thinks abortion is about the“right to privacy” but that women have no right to privacy when it comes tosharing showers and locker rooms with biological men.

This is the party that wants to discriminate againstand ultimately shut down Christian adoption and foster care providers, whilestripping birth mothers of their right to place their child in a home thatshares their faith.

This is the party that argues for placing a religioustest on public servants and preventing them from serving their country.

This is the party that applauded as the governmentwent to war against an order of nuns in an effort to try and save face onObamacare.

This is the party that parades ten-year-old childrenon national TV in sexualized clothing of the opposite sex and calls itempowerment instead of what it is: child abuse.

The Democrats certainly believe in some sort of a morality, but it is a bizarro version that is anything but moral. Republicans must hold them accountable to that. Any Democrats lecturing on morality in 2020 and beyond should be made to explain the parameters of their newfound ‘morality’ and how it justifies the evil policies they actively support. 

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